Another Warning: Careful what you are posting on Facebook

The famous U.K. university, the University of Cambridge, recently published a paper on how they developed a software tool that takes Facebook profiles that are publicly accessible (and other publicly available information via search engines) to mine/infer private data.

From the article: "We focused on inferring information about a whole social graph...lists of every person and the connections between them," such as group memberships they had in common or geographic ties, says Joseph Bonneau, one of the project's researchers.

It’s one that thing that your information can be mined but it is another thing with that mined information can be used by ill-intentioned people. From the article: "You could do targeted phishing attacks if you knew people's [Facebook] friends and claim to be their friend," Bonneau says.

The good news is you can ‘lock down’ your profiles under your user settings within Facebook. But soon the question would be…”When will the smart researches at prestigious universities or ill-intentioned people crack the private profiles?”

You can read the entire article here.