Wikileaks Ain't Got Nothing On These Facebook Leaks

Okay, so this is a little terrifying. Imagine the plot of Die Hard With a Vengeance, but instead of Timothy Olyphant stealing all the money in the U.S. to prove how flimsy our bank systems are, some security consultant decided to write a code to hack 100m Facebook users profiles, and then released the information onto bittorrent sites. This was all to prove that Mark Zuckerberg’s new privacy controls were b.s. Which seems a little messed up, because who are you really hurting here: Facebook or the users?

Meanwhile, Facebook says it doesn’t give a fuuuuuuug, and that all the information in the file was “already freely available online.” O RLY? This is why we need to set aside some time to figure out what the hell is going on with those privacy settings these days: Most of the time we just let everything slip into standard “default mode,” and suddenly all of our contact info is on some list with 99,999 million other schmucks.