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Facebook data mining tool uncovers your life

posted onOctober 22, 2013
by l33tdawg

You know you shouldn't post potentially damaging data on Facebook, but more often that not, your friends don't think twice about it, and this can impact you even more than you think. At the Hack In The Box conference in Kuala Lumpur, security consultants Keith Lee and Jonathan Werrett from SpiderLabs revealed how a simple tool can enable anyone to find a comprehensive amount of data on any user.

To get the information, they created the aptly named FBStalker. This tool reverse-engineers the Facebook Graph and can find information on almost anyone. You don't have to be a friend with someone on the network - the only thing that FBStalker needs to work is for parts of your posts to be marked as public. The tool will find things based on photos you've been tagged in, the comments you've put on other people's posts, the things that you like, etc.

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