I hate this data breach as much as everyone else, but I wonder if people really thought this one through:
- CA was the one that got caught, but think about it. If you were on FB back in 2006, they had idiotic apps like Super Poke, drawing apps, etc. There was so much user data harvested and collected. Who knows whatever happened to that data. Same era as Farmville and all sorts of junk apps.
- While we could argue FB didn't do a good job with data privacy, honestly who did? Windows, and even early versions of Android had really no permissions model. If you installed apps they were free to do whatever they wanted to do. Apps in the early 2000s on Windows could've stolen everything if they wanted. This is just the nature of the beast.
- iOS did stuff properly from a security standpoint, but if you look at Mac in the early days of iOS, it was just as vulnerable as Windows or Android from a permissions standpoint.
I'm claiming my share here, but I also think some of the outrage was overblown.