full-disclosure - Re: flickr not truly private

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Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 06:56:19 -0800
From: "Line Noise" <300baud@...il.com>
To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: flickr not truly private

On 2/25/07, John Duhuh <john.duhuh@...glemail.com> wrote:
> flickr say you can mark your photos private. when you look at the web
> interface maybe. just give the direct address of a picture to one with no
> access he grabs it no problem.
> google images tips left as an exercise.

Rest snipped. Of course they're not *private*, in that sense of the
word. Other than keeping web spiders from archiving your pictures, it
serves no purpose whatsoever. If you have pictures you don't want to
share with strangers, don't put them on Flickr.

Seems simple enough.

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