Photobucket
themselves were caught giving out users details freely to anyone willing to pay for them a few years ago.
But it seems that's not important.....
Two men, who were indicted and arrested Stateside on Friday for allegedly breaching pic-hosting website Photobucket.com, face conspiracy and fraud charges. The suspects, Brandon Bourret, 39, of Colorado Springs, Colorado and Athanasios Andrianakis, 26, of Sunnyvale, California, were cuffed and taken away for questioning, the U …
Wish i could. But i clearly remember the story. Photobucket had admitted to openly passing off users details to anyone who could be bothered to buy them. When i asked photobucket about this i was told in no uncertain terms it was a "privacy" issue and they would not discuss it. My account ended that day.
This, where are the people investingating photobucket for really crap software design?
After all by letting people put private albums then not keeping them private by misuse of a feature, are they not breaching their duty of care?
This issue has been known about on reddit etc long before photofuket made it pointy clicky. Indeed there used to be a section of reddit dedicated to fusking techniques...
Photofukets authors guilty, but mostly of embarassing legal commercial business and rocking the boat.