This week the popular social network Facebook apps expose user indentification numbers, on Thursday Facebook proposed addressing the issue through encryption.
The engineer from Facebook Mike Vernal published the proposal on the Facebook developer’s blog, this is nothing that the biggest social network Facebook hopes to lay the groundwork and to implement the encrypted UIDs over the bext few weeks, and after to add support for encryption follow community feedback.That specific migration timeline will be announced later.
Mike Vernal says, that while some Facebook developers have been employing a page redirection of “double farming” to remove UIDs from URLs, but Facebook wants to develop a better fix, and to fix the problem.And the change will prevent the accidental sharing of UIDs through the Referer header.
Vernal wrote:”While this proposal will address the inadvertent sharing of this information on Facebook, the underlying issue of data sharing via HTTP headers is a Web-wide problem,” he added “We look forward to working with the Web standards community and browser vendors over the coming months to help address this issue.”
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