Hackers have a new tool in their arsenal dubbed Facebook Friends Mapper that allows them to crawl Facebook Hidden Friends list just in a click.įacebook users can protect their privacy by setting the “privacy level” for every information related their profile or content they post online. Users can decide to completely set as private the information in a way it results invisible to other users, even to the user’s friends. It worked by exploiting a loophole in Facebook’s privacy settings that allowed users to see the mutual friends of any two people on the platform, even if they weren’t friends with either of them. There is an option in Facebook that allows the user to set the visibility of his friends list to “ Only Me“, the settings allow users to keep the friends list hidden from other Facebook users, including users’ own friends. Facebook Friends Mapper was a browser extension that allowed Facebook users to view the hidden friends list of any Facebook user. Unfortunately, there is a flaw in Facebook that doesn’t allow to completely hide information of the user’s profile, including the friends list. ![]() ![]() Even if the user decides to make the friends list invisible anyone can see it. The issue resides in the Facebook’s mutual-friends feature concept, which has been in controversies in the past, raising privacy concerns.
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