[pchelpers] News:'Facebook for Kids' slammed by security researchers

'Users could be anybody: a child, an adult, a child predator, or a
spambot'
By John Leyden • Get more from this author
Posted in Security, 12th December 2008 16:41 GMT


Updated A new social network website claiming to be a "Facebook for
Kids" is riddled with security shortcomings, security researchers at
Cambridge University have warned. The site - School Together Now - said
that it took security seriously and promised to review the findings of
the Cambridge researchers.

School Together Now - which is aiming to sign up parents as well
children as members - is due to launch at the start of next year but is
already open to registration. National media coverage about the site
sparked the curiosity of Cambridge postgradute researcher Joseph Bonneau
about what security controls for an obviously vulnerable age group had
been established.

Bonneau discovered a myriad of security problems beyond the issue of
whether kids needed a social networking site. School Together Now is
focused on signing up seven to 12 year-old but advertisers and other can
also participate.

More here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/12/school_together_now/
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