Suositukseni: Poista puhelinnumerosi ja osoitteesi Facebookista. Nyt.

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Jaa että onko kukaan kavereistasi laittanut puhelinnumeroa Facebookkiin? Luultavasti useampi kuin arvaatkaan. Tarkasta täältä.

Lisätietoja:

• Tietoturvayhtiö Sophoksen uutinen aiheesta
• Sophoksen ohjeet Facebook-tilin turva-asetuksiin

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This created a need to configure Nokia N900 to connect to Helsinki University wireless network HUPnet and authenticate using OpenVPN to avoid browser authentication. This is how you do it.

Configuring

1. Connect to HUPnet & login with your browser
2. Install openvpn-applet
3. Take your N900 browser to https://ohjelma.it.helsinki.fi/ and login
4. Click the HY-VPN folder
5. Click on Linux folder
6. Click on hy-vpn-config.tgz
7. On the page that opens, click on the hy-vpn-config.tgz link again to start download
8. Save it to Documents folder on your N900
9. Open Xterminal
10. Run cd /home/user/MyDocs/.documents to go to the folder where the downloaded file is
11. Run tar zxf hy-vpn-config.tgz to extract the downloaded package with the config files
12. Click on the top bar and from there, click on OpenVPN
13. Click Manage Connections -> New
14. Click on Configuration file -> Documents -> openvpn.conf (You’ll get an error message of missing liteca.crt, it’s OK)
15. Click on Ca File -> Documents -> liteca.crt
16. Click on Import. Now HUPnet OpenVPN should be configured. Close all windows.

Using

1. Connect to HUPnet WLAN
2. Click on the top bar and from there click on OpenVPN
3. Click on ‘Connect to openvpn’
4. Type in your credentials and click ‘Valmis’, ‘Ready’, ‘OK’ or similar
5. There’s a new icon on top bar showing you’re connected.

Worksforme.

Now it’d be nice to figure out how to not have to type in the credentials..

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It seems to smarter create & control lists for people who you want to have access to something (include) than lists for people who you want to hide things from (exclude). This _should_ also be safer, as if you forget the whole thing when adding new friends, they won’t see anything but if the exclude lists were preferred, forgetting it would mean that your new friend sees everything.

Friend lists

At the moment I have 22 lists for my friends, and all the people belong to more than one list.

Context lists: I have lists for people based on where I’ve learned to know them and/or what’s their current context where I connect to them: family, extended family, church, school, work, hobbies, countries, I even have lists for cities where I’ve been living.

Lists for language: I have a FIN list for people who are OK with Finnish content (mostly this means people who are born or live in Finland), and a non-FIN list for those who prefer non-Finnish content meaning people I’ve learned to know abroad.

Access Control Lists: I now went through all my contacts, and to Keep It Simple, I created a Wall&Posts list that allows people to  see things I post and also to see what others have written on my wall. That list doesn’t have very many people so don’t be offended if you can’t see much on my profile, you’re not alone.  Then I also created a Private for people I want to let see more private things like – well, actually nothing more but birthday.

Configuration

Go to privacy overview page and click on ‘Customize settings’ button below the overview table.

Here’s the configuration as I have it:

Posts by me: Visible to Wall&Posts, hidden from non-FIN
Family: Visible Private
Relationships: Visible to Private
Interested in and looking for: Visible to Private
Bio and favorite quotations: Visible to Private
Website: Everyone
Religious and political views: Visible to Private
Birthday: Visible to Private
Places I check in to: Only Me
Include me in “People Here Now” after I check in: Not enabled

Photos and videos I’m tagged in: Only Me
Can comment on posts: Friends only
Friends can post on my Wall: Enable
Can see Wall posts by friends: Wall&Posts
Friends can check me in to Places: Disabled

Mobile phone: Only Me
Other phone: Only Me
Address: Only Me
IM screen name: Only Me
email@address.com: Friends Only

Testing

First I went to privacy overview page, clicked on ‘Customize settings’ button below the overview table. After this I clicked on the Preview My Profile button on top of the page.

I tried with three names who all were in exact same two lists. One of them was able to see much more than the other two. Well, I thought that maybe I didn’t have the settings for these people as I though I had and they some of them got the content I posted, others not. This actually doesn’t explain it as some of the things I’ve posted have been visible to ‘Everyone’.

Then I tried how this works by removing my wife (only temporarily, thanks for worrying) from Wall&Post list. That worked. Then I removed her from the Private list. For this change to take effect, it took around 10 minutes.

For the original settings to take effect again it took.. around 15 minutes.

I write shared two tests: a link visible to all my friends and a status visible to the Wall&Post list, hidden from non-FIN list.

They really didn’t work out. Out of those three people I used to test earlier, based on the profile preview only one is able to see the link I posted to Friends only. 12 hours later the situation is still the same.

Targeted sharing

Most of the things I post are in Finnish. I decided to stop  bugging my non-Finnish friends and created the non-FIN list for them. By default they are excluded when I post something, but when I every now and then decide to post something in English, I click on the tiny lock next to the ‘Share’ button. Then I remove the non-FIN list from ‘Hide this from’ field. Sometimes I also can add the FIN there if for some reason I don’t want my Finnish friends to see it. For example wishing Merry Christmas I can do for all my non-FIN friends and then wish Hyvää Joulua for all of my FIN friends. Works well. And the same goes with the context lists, some news are interesting for people living in a specific city but not in another. Or something happening in our school might not interest someone who I met while taking the train to Siberia.

Summary

Things start to click slowly. The settings are spread all over the place, but if you get the ACLs (=Access Control Lists) well set up, it makes your life easier. And do remember that it takes some time for the settings to start working correctly – and my experience is that they actually won’t always start working at all as expected..

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Taking control of your privacy in Facebook is a pain and takes a long time but that’s the price you must pay if you want to protect your privacy and still use Facebook.

The settings are spread all over the place and it’s not easy to have a clear overview of who’ll see what. But it’s still definitely worth the spent time to go through these settings, I’m sure you’ll find some surprises. I show here some example configuration but it’s best you think through what’s good for you.

As a rule of thumb: don’t put it in Facebook unless you’re OK everyone seeing it, or you’re sure that your settings are correct (but still there’s a change it’ll leak.. Sorry!)

Friend lists

Go to Friends page

If you haven’t already done this, create separate lists for our friends. This will allow you to later on decide more specifically who you want to share what.

You create new lists by clicking on the ‘Create new list’ button on top of the page.

SIMPLE: Create ‘DONTSHOW’ list where you list people you want still let be your friends, but do not want to show anything you do on facebook.

ADVANCED: Create lists for family, coworkers, friends, peopleyoureallydon’tknow and sort your people to these groups, and then create groups for people who you WANT to let see things you share, for example Show_statuses, Show_photos, Show_privateinformation

Now add the people to these lists. If you have hundreds of friends, it’s a pain, I know. Click on ‘All Connections’ on the left to show all friends and then click on the ‘Add to list’ button next to each name to add them to the lists.

General privacy settings

Go to privacy overview page. This shows who sees what in your profile. I think that none of these should be on ‘Everyone’ or ‘Friends of Friends’ as they might reveal your information to someone you have no idea of. So I recommend ‘Friends Only’ or Other, it’s your call. But here’s how to change the settings.

Click on ‘Customize settings’ button below the overview table.

Posts by me: Visible to Show_statuses
Family: Visible to Show_privateinformation
Relationships: Visible to Show_privateinformation
Interested in and looking for: Visible to Show_privateinformation
Bio and favorite quotations: Visible to Show_privateinformation
Website: Everyone
Religious and political views: Visible to Show_privateinformation
Birthday: Visible to Show_privateinformation
Places I check in to: Only Me
Include me in “People Here Now” after I check in: Not enabled

Photos and videos I’m tagged in: Only Me
Can comment on posts: Visible to Show_statuses
Friends can post on my Wall: Enable
Can see Wall posts by friends: Visible to Show_statuses
Friends can check me in to Places: Disabled

Mobile phone: Only Me
Other phone: Only Me
Address: Only Me
IM screen name: Only Me
email@address.com: Friends Only

I think it’s very important that you disable the ”Friends can check me in to Places” as it means that by going to a place, someone else is able tell all your Facebook friends that you’re there. That means anyone can check you in anywhere, no matter if you’ve been there or not. My guess is that location awareness in Facebook will grow fast with GPS enabled phones so it’s smart to be prepared.

Photos you’re tagged in – you might want to limit the changes that someone posts an unwanted photo of you in Facebook and tags you there letting your friends see it. That’s why Only Me is a good choice.

Review what you’ve typed in

Go to Edit profile page to remind yourself of what you’ve written there. I myself have the whole page empty except sex & birthday. However I only show month & day in the profile, not the year. Just to be on the safe side.

On the left you can go through your profile picture, relationships, likes&interests, education&work and contact information.

I don’t recommend you to share your education&work in Facebook, that’s what LinkedIn is for. Is it really needed to share that you go to dance every tuesday night from 6pm to 8pm and leave your home empty? Do you want to point out who’s your sister? Share your phone number. I personally don’t.

In the Likes&Interests page you can drag&drop some of the liked pages to be hidden (as in not shown by default, unless the used clicks at ‘see more’ link).

Wall

The checkbox to allow/disallow your friends to post on your wall can be found in your profile page. Below the ‘What’s in your mind?’ textbox and ‘Share’ button is a small Options link. Click it. Now it changes to ‘Settings’. Click it.

Three options you should be interested in:

Posting ability: Friends may post to my Wall
Who can see posts made by friends: Visible to Show_statuses (or Friends only)
Combine posts: Show posts from friends in the default view disabled

Writing status

Now you could write a new status, for example ‘going through Facebook privacy settings’. But before you click on ‘Share’, try the small lock icon next to the Share button. It allows you to select who sees the status. Everyone, Friends, Friends of Friends or custom. If you select Custom, you can set lists of friends (for example Family, Coworkers etc.. ) or individual friends who you want to show this status, or you can also let everyone else see it except the people in the ‘DONTSHOW’ -list, if that’s what you’ve created. Sometimes this is a very useful feature.

Photos

Go to Photos privacy page to control who has access to your existing photo albums.

Directory information

Go again to privacy overview page. Under the ‘Basic Directory Information’, click on ‘View Settings’. This page now shows you who is able to see that you’re in Facebook and so on.

My settings:

Search me on Facebook: Everyone
Send me friend requests: Everyone
Send me messages: Everyone
See my friend list: Visible to Friends only, Hidden from ListX
See my education and work: Visible to Friends only, Hidden from ListX
See my current city and hometown: Visible to Friends only, Hidden from ListX
See my interests and other Pages: Visible to Friends only, Hidden from ListX

(where ListX is one or more lists I don’t want to show this information)

Applications

Go again to privacy overview page. On top right, ‘Applications and Websites’ section, click on ‘Edit your settings’.

This takes you to page where you see what applications you are using currently. I have 6, and as I’m writing this, I actually removed one so five is left.  I bet you have more – they’re VERY EASY to install, it’s enough to click a link on your feed to see what your friend answered on a poll or so on. However here you can remove or turn off apps you don’t want to use.

Game and application activity: Only Me
Info accessible through your friends: All 18 checkboxes unchecked
Instant personalization: Not enabled
Public search: Not enabled

Applications, part II

That’s not all the fun with applications. Go to Application settings (yes, this is different from the application setting page above..). Here you find list of apps that you have recently used. I have the usual stuff there, Events, groups, links, notes, photos, videos, gifts.

By clicking on ‘Edit Settings’ next to each app you can decide who sees your links, events, notes and so on. You might want to limit some of these, my guess is that they’re all shown to at least all your friends if not also to friends of friends.

Block list

Once again go to privacy overview page and select ‘Edit your lists’ in ‘Block list’ section.

Here you can block other users if you don’t want to hear anything about any more (in Facebook, that is ;), you don’t want to get any application invites from or you don’t want to get any event invitations. Also here is a list of applications you have blocked – I have 52 applications listed..

Preview your profile

Do you want to see how does your profile look like to a friend of yours? Go to
privacy overview page, click on ‘View Settings’ (near Basic Directory Information), click on Preview My Profile. The same button is available also in privacy overview page -> customize settings page or you can also try this direct link.

Now you see your profile and by typing a friends name in the text box on top, you see what parts of your profile are visible to him/her.

Ads

Remember seeing ads telling that a friend of yours likes Britney Spears and suggestion that maybe you like her too? Would you want your name to be used to advertise something that you liked, for example Finnish Sauna? Didn’t think so either.

Go to Facebook Ads page and set this:

Allow ads on platform pages to show my information to: No one (click Save Changes)
Show my social actions in Facebook Ads to: No one (click Save Changes)

Notifications

You might still want to have a look at the notification settings, basically when do you want Facebook to send you a SMS or E-mail. You can do this at Notifications page

Remarks & Summary

When someone is waiting to become your friend, depending on your settings, he’s able to see when you make new friends. If your status settings are loose enough, your statuses will be shown on his feed even if you haven’t accepted his request. Someone reported that this actually is the case even if your statuses are not public so watch out..

As you see it’s not easy to find all the settings as they’re spread all over the place. Every time you post or do something in  Facebook you might want to remind yourself about the privacy issues.

Diaspora

Diaspora will very soon be a ‘New Facebook’: The privacy aware, personally controlled, do-it-all, open source social network. I’m hoping it to come and grow big and allow us to have full control. Read more at http://www.joindiaspora.com/

Your experiences?

Did I miss something? Please let me know and I’ll add it here. Did some of the sharing settings surprise you or did you have everything in place already? What do you think of Facebook privacy, do you trust it?

ps. Now it’s your time to click here to share this post with your friends and help them to in finding suitable privacy settings for them! Thank you!!

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Facebook introduced some new privacy tools mid-December. Some of these changes are not positive only.

Also many users have no idea about what parts of their profile they share to their friends, the world or friends of friends.

We decided to write some instructions for you to go through to protect your privacy and keep on using Facebook, in the safe way.

CREATE FRIEND LISTS

First, let’s create create lists of your friends, for example ‘School friends’, ‘Work mates’ and so on to ease the privacy management. Go to ‘Friends‘ view to create and edit lists. You can add each of your friend to multiple lists.

From privacy point of view, you want to create at least ‘Limited Profile‘ list and add the friends from who you want to limit access to your profile.

PROTECTING YOUR INFORMATION FROM APPLICATIONS YOUR FRIENDS USE

By default the Facebook applications (=games, quizzes, …) your friends use can see A LOT of information about you. This information can be used even to distribute viruses and malware. You should (yes, you really should!) limit the applications’ access to your profile. Go to Settings -  > Privacy Settings -> Applications and Websites -> What your friends can share about  you -> Edit Settings (link) to select what to share.

PROTECTING YOUR FRIENDS FROM THE WORLD

Friends are now, according to Facebook, “public information” and not controlled by any privacy option! This means that not only your friends, but anyone landing on your site, no matter if they’re registered to Facebook or not, can see who’s your friend.

There is still one way to hide the friend list from the rest of the world: select the pen icon besides Friends box on your profile page, and uncheck “Show my friends on my profile“.

It’s not any more possible to hide the list of your friends from specific friends, so in practice you need to remove such friends you don’t want to let have access to that information.

HIDE YOUR PROFILE FROM GOOGLE & OTHER SEARCH ENGINES

Uncheck “Allow Indexing” under Settings -> Privacy Settings -> Search. Your profile can still be found inside Facebook, but the Facebook profile page will not be the first thing Google lists about you. Here you also can decide if Facebook search finds your profile.

PROTECTING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION & SUBMITTED CONTENT

After creating the required friend   lists, go to Settings -  > Privacy   Settings  -> Profile information (URL). Here you can select who sees the posts and comments on your wall and details of your personal profile and so on. To enable the settings,   click ‘Change settings’ on top and type in your password.

For example, click on the button on the ‘Religious and Political Views‘ row. Then click ‘Custom‘. Now in the   dialog that pops open select ‘Only Friends‘ in the ‘Make this visible to‘ -field. Add the ‘Limited Profile‘ list under ‘Hide this from‘. Back on the privacy page it will now read “Only Friends;   Except: Limited   Profile”.

See Settings -> Privacy settings   -> Contact information (URL) to adjust what parts of your contact  information you want to show to your friends & the world.

A very handy tool to check what parts of you profile page are shown to a friend of you is Settings -> Privacy Settings -> Contact Information -> Preview My Profile. Now you can type in the name of a friend to see your profile with his eyes.

WHO SEES YOUR SUBMITTED CONTENT

Each status message, link, photo and video you post now has a selection on how public it will be (the small lock icon). Here also you might want to make sure that ‘Friends only’ is the default setting and maybe hide the  posts from ‘Limited profile’ list.

Also each Photo Album has its own privacy settings. You might want to check that  you  share the photos to ‘Friends only’.

Also do remember that these will be  available for EVERYONE, and there’s nothing you can do about it: Name,  Profile Picture, Gender, Current City, Networks, Friends, or Pages – so  make it’s something you are OK to publish. (Source)

APPLICATION PRIVACY SETTINGS

For each application you’ve installed (including Events, Notes, Groups..), you can decide what they’re allowed to do. The settings are not easy to understand, but still, do go to Application settings.

PROFESSIONAL VIEW / SECOND OPINION

Paul Fenwick, a Facebook security specialist has written an extensive analysis about the new privacy tools. Check his blog post for more information and also join his security study group. Here are some of his recommendations:

Go to your profile page. Scroll down until you see Recent Activity. Anything you don’t want to see there, delete it now. Any time you join a group, or like an event, or fan a page, or change your relationship status, or sneeze, go back to Recent Activity and check if you’re happy with that being broadcasted.

Go through all the new privacy settings, and think about each one. Some of them may not have even been mentioned in the migration tool. My date of birth had unexpectedly went from being completely private to completely public.

REFERENCES

Facebook blog explains the new privacy tools

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Risto H. Kurppa
Timo Jyrinki

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