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First Google+ security "issue". If you don't turn off re-sharing, your stuff shared with one circle can be reshared to anywhere -- (link)

Posted by oblique (aka kkuphal) Jul 1 '11, 07:42

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apparently (gizmodo.com)

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Can't that happen in Facebook though? I mean, any one of my friends can take a post of mine or a photo and share it with their people. -- nm - Jim Jul 1, 07:50 6
- Sort of. If I have the privacy set to Friends only, they can't see it -- nm - oblique Jul 1, 07:51 5
  - But if I'm in your "Friend" group, can I share the post? - JaxSean Jul 1, 07:56 1
    - Maybe, but the original item security still applies so that only my friends would see it (assuming I set it that way) -- nm - oblique Jul 1, 08:14
  - I'm just thinking though...if a friend downloaded one of your photos...then uploaded it to their album...then they share it with everyone they know... - Jim Jul 1, 07:52 2
    - Sure, but technically that's not the same "item" in terms of the security and it shows as your photo, not mine -- nm - oblique Jul 1, 08:14
    - There was a race to find something that could be called a privacy problem. This is the thing they found first. - TFox Jul 1, 07:54
I don't get why people would think it couldn't be reshared to someone in another of your Circles. - JaxSean Jul 1, 07:48 3
- I think that's the issue Google's created for themselves. They've created this idea of circles, but enable data to travel outside that circle through - Will Hunting Jul 1, 07:59
- I think the point is that it can be shared with people *not* in another of your circles. -- nm - mara Jul 1, 07:50 1
  - I think they have something like that in place. Maybe it's this that's a little unclear. - JaxSean Jul 1, 07:54

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