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Facebook privacy flaw exposes Mark Zuckerberg private photos

Facebook  privacy flaw exposes  Mark Zuckerberg  private photos A flaw in Facebook has granted prying users access to supposedly private photographs, including those of the website’s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg. In total  14 pictures of Mr Zuckerberg  were posted to image site Imgur under the headline: " It's time to fix those security flaws Facebook ".The bug in the website’s photo reporting tool - which Facebook says was only temporary and has now been fixed - meant that users could access others’ pictures even if they were private. The flaw was first reported on the forums of BodyBuilding.com, presumably because the users of that website like taking photos of themselves and putting them online. The bug exploits the way the offensive photograph reporting tool works. Facebook has been heavily criticised in the last few years for matters of privacy and so there are people who will leap on this story as yet another example of how the comp