MySpace ‘backdoor’ closed

The day that Wired magazine reported the availability of a “backdoor” to photos on some MySpace users’ private profiles, the site sealed the door, MySpace said. It’s an example of how the Net industry and the media, at odds on the surface, actually work together to protect users. Though Wired said “the glitch emerged last fall,” it didn’t report on it till January 17, the day MySpace said the “feature” – a way of allowing users with private profiles to make their photo albums available to friends, MySpace said – had been dropped. Private profiles of any change can no longer make their photos public. Don’t be surprised, however, if reports of the bug continue to circulate, because not every blogger does fact checking.