The process for signing up for the social network can be manipulated so easily that a famous blogger posed as Google's president, Eric Schmidt.
One of Schmidt's email addresses was enough to lend credibility to the profile, according to michael Arrington, creator of tech blog TechCrunch.
In his experiment, he was able to become "friends" right away, for example, with YouTube founder Chad Hurley and fcebook's head of public relations, Elliot Schrage.
The real Eric Schmidt took it with humor and said on his - authentic - twitter account that he was fine with Arrington impersonating him on Facebook. "Let's see how he does to deal with everyone," he said.
Arrington took advantage of the fact that Schmidt doesn't have a profile on fcebook, so he created one and put a photo of the head of Google. He used an email address known to him from Schmidt.
This prompted fcebook to immediately propose other "friends," probably true acquaintances of the manager, who had that address on their contact list, Arrington writes.
Facebook sends when an inscription occurs an email to the address provided and asks for a confirmation before the profile is installed definitively. But without this step it is already possible to contact "friends" and send them messages, according to the blogger.
Source: DPA
Source: Infobae.comAuthors: Computer Security News
