Showing posts with label privacy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label privacy. Show all posts

Thursday, March 29, 2012

JomSocial Album Privacy Issues

Hi,

I was working with JomSocial and I found some interesting (read: ridiculous) things regarding JomSocial. Here hey are:

1. Even if you set a video view to 'Only me', anyone can view, rate, comment on it if they just know the URL, the URL could also have been indexed by search engine.
2. Same issue with Album
3. But here is what was most amazing, if you are viewing someone else's album if you have rights to view or even if you don't have rights and you have gone through URL, you can change their album covers and even DELETE PICTURES.. yes literally delete pictures.. go try it yourself.




I don't know how it didn't come into notice so far or if it is supposed to be a feature, which clearly it shouldn't be. Maybe they have fixed it in 2.6 otherwise lets hope they do so soon as I have checked in 2.2 and 2.4 and its in both.

Thursday, March 1, 2012

Youtube search / view history privacy

Are you like me who has really been bothered about the google's merging privacy and going public with everything? have you been going to private browsing so that youtube don't automatically get your id and stores everything you do? Well then this post will surely come in handy to you. I found a way to disable youtube's logging of your search as well as video view.. here is how you can set to hide your browsing and at the same time clear and erase your previous history:

1. Open youtube
2. Click on top right box where you will see your username
3. Click on 'Video Manager'
4. Click on 'History' coming onto the left menu
5. Click on 'Pause viewing history'
6* You may also select 'Clear all viewing history' to remove the previous data.

Repeat it for 'Search History' and you are good to go. :)

Who knows they are still saving and just not showing you ... *sigh*