Journalist Arrested Over Facebook Privacy Story
Tech reporter released, iPad retained
Australian tech journalist Ben Grubb was arrested after the Sydney Morning Herald published a piece he wrote about Facebook’s privacy controls. Grubb was subsequently released without charge and without his iPad, which the police retained.
The piece, entitled "Security Experts Go to War: Wife Targeted," covers a presentation at an IT security conference where the presenter exposed Facebook’s privacy vulnerabilities by hacking, live, into another security expert’s wife’s Facebook page, displaying photos she had locked behind a "Friends only" privacy setting.
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