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Re: Facebook detects if you are logged in Gmail

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Post by lurch00 » Sun, Nov 06, 2011, 2:23 AM UTC

rapind wrote: post #35

brudgers wrote: post #28

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I have a Ubuntu virtual machine(VMware Player) for Facebook only. I don't see any sufficient reason to link all my online activity to my account.

That's a pretty solid way to handle security. I wonder if there's a way to make sure you're always booting from the same starting point so that nothing is persisted to the image between vm sessions.

Easy way is to just boot a live CD in a sandbox (virtualbox, vmware)..if your really concerned about security check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Amnesic_Incognito_Live_Syst...

Re: Facebook detects if you are logged in Gmail

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Post by ceol » Sun, Nov 06, 2011, 2:37 AM UTC

kamkha wrote: post #39

ceol wrote: post #33

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>Not sure how they are doing this Did you happen to read the answers? Two specifically mention that Facebook requests authentication access (OpenID, I believe) the first time. It appears this user authorized Facebook at some point in the past and forgot about it. When I look at this page: https://accounts.google.com/b/0/IssuedAuthSubTokens I can see that at some point in the past, I allowed Facebook access to my Goog…

Did you happen to read the comments on the answers? > Nope it's not that unfortunately. I tried it myself removing all linked accounts. The event above still happens.

I was talking about this one: http://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/20018/facebook-de...

"The OAuth tokens for Google are at https://accounts.google.com/b/0/IssuedAuthSubTokens (it's different from Linked Accounts).

When I tried it, Facebook created a popup with a OAuth prompt the first time and only briefly opened a blank popup on subsequent attempts. De-authorizing facebook makes the prompts appear again."

Unless they're talking about two different prompts?

Re: Facebook detects if you are logged in Gmail

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Post by jarin » Sun, Nov 06, 2011, 2:40 AM UTC

I ran into that the other day, and was pleasantly surprised. This is how interconnectivity is supposed to work.

Re: Facebook detects if you are logged in Gmail

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Post by res0nat0r » Sun, Nov 06, 2011, 2:42 AM UTC

Another day, another post up in arms about Facebook privacy. This is getting old.

Re: Facebook detects if you are logged in Gmail

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Post by qjz » Sun, Nov 06, 2011, 2:46 AM UTC

rapind wrote: post #40

mixmastamyk wrote: post #38

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Snapshots.

Great thanks.

You can also boot live ISOs, which don't maintain state between boots.

Re: Facebook detects if you are logged in Gmail

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Post by pagekalisedown » Sun, Nov 06, 2011, 2:59 AM UTC

mekoka wrote: post #30

raganwald wrote: post #19

Not sure how they are doing this, but I have gotten tired of having to play “whack-a-mole” with FB scraping private information from my browser in other ways, so what I have done is sandboxed it: I have a separate “Facebook” account on OS X, and I assume that anything I do on that account is shared with Facebook. I don’t log into Facebook for any reason on my normal user account, and I don’t log into anything else on…

There's a comprehensive choice of browsers ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_web_browsers ). I picked one that I knew I wouldn't need and dedicated it to my facebook usage.

That's a great idea. I think I'll do the same for my online banking.

Re: Facebook detects if you are logged in Gmail

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Post by _delirium » Sun, Nov 06, 2011, 3:10 AM UTC

nitrogen wrote: post #34

zalew wrote: post #31

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being so afraid, what's the point of using it?

I can't speak for raganwald, but in my case there are people who refuse to communicate using anything else.

A bunch of organizations seem to be more consistent adding "Events" to their Facebook page than updating their website, also, so I need to periodically check if I don't want to miss things.

Re: Facebook detects if you are logged in Gmail

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Post by code_duck » Sun, Nov 06, 2011, 3:14 AM UTC

raganwald wrote: post #19

Not sure how they are doing this, but I have gotten tired of having to play “whack-a-mole” with FB scraping private information from my browser in other ways, so what I have done is sandboxed it: I have a separate “Facebook” account on OS X, and I assume that anything I do on that account is shared with Facebook. I don’t log into Facebook for any reason on my normal user account, and I don’t log into anything else on…

I was browsing Facebook in Chromium in Mac OS when all of sudden, something started requesting Key Chain access for just just about every web site login I have stored. Coincidence? I have no idea what was going on, never happened before or since.

Re: Facebook detects if you are logged in Gmail

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Post by MartinMond » Sun, Nov 06, 2011, 3:24 AM UTC

I bought http://fluidapp.com/ just for Facebook.

Now I have a nice separate window for browsing Facebook and nothing but Facebook.

Separate cookie store is awesome.

Re: Facebook detects if you are logged in Gmail

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Post by eddieplan9 » Sun, Nov 06, 2011, 3:27 AM UTC

jvandenbroeck wrote: post #32

So Facebook uses oauth to login with google, I don't get why this is worth 114 points..

IMHO, this does not seem to be related to OAuth. OAuth is three-leg authentication, and the service provider - Google in this case - will prompt the user to allow the consumer - facebook in this case - to allow an authentication attempt. Except of course the user has done the authentication in a previous attempt and facebook cached the token, but based on facebook's wording, because you are logged into your email account on this browser, does not seem to support this.