Security researcher says you should fudge your DOB on Facebook
Facebook this week said it fixed a security hole that exposed the birth dates of members during a public test of a new design. Normally Facebook users choose whether to keep their birthdays private from other users.
Security researcher Graham Cluley, who discovered the privacy breach, says it's good policy to never give out your date of birth to a Web site if you can help it.
UPDATE: Facebook did not directly respond to Cluley's recommendation that users provide false dates of birth. Instead it sent, after my radio deadline, the same statement it provided to every other newsie:
"For a brief period of time, a small number of users were able to access a private beta of Facebook's new site design meant only for developers. During that time, some of those users had their birthdays revealed due to a bug. The problem was identified and promptly resolved."
