Comments on: Consumer-grade IT: Facebook/MySpace Coding Flaws http://blogs.gartner.com/john_pescatore/2009/11/09/consumer-grade-it-facebookmyspace-coding-flaws/ A member of the Gartner Blog Network Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:10:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Scott Olson http://blogs.gartner.com/john_pescatore/2009/11/09/consumer-grade-it-facebookmyspace-coding-flaws/comment-page-1/#comment-1637 Scott Olson Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:38:41 +0000 http://blogs.gartner.com/john_pescatore/?p=935#comment-1637 Good post John. This problem was highlighted further by Zynga's decision to pull their FishVille game from Facebook. They simply had too many scams in their in-game offers. Zynga is one of the powerhouse game providers to Facebook and their action here is a signal of the problems with the architecture Facebook has in place. The social sites are going to have to take a more aggressive stance with this, however, not because of user growth, but because of the loss of user confidence in the primary supplier of their revenue. These companies know all too well how news can go viral and are experiencing the flip side of this right now. Ultimately, you're right. There needs to be significantly more security implemented in the architecture of these sites and endpoint security needs to be improved to meet these threats. Good post John. This problem was highlighted further by Zynga’s decision to pull their FishVille game from Facebook. They simply had too many scams in their in-game offers. Zynga is one of the powerhouse game providers to Facebook and their action here is a signal of the problems with the architecture Facebook has in place.

The social sites are going to have to take a more aggressive stance with this, however, not because of user growth, but because of the loss of user confidence in the primary supplier of their revenue.

These companies know all too well how news can go viral and are experiencing the flip side of this right now. Ultimately, you’re right. There needs to be significantly more security implemented in the architecture of these sites and endpoint security needs to be improved to meet these threats.

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