Showing posts with label Facebook. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Facebook. Show all posts

Saturday 28 April 2018

Facebook, Friend or Evil ?

Hi Internet,

Summary:
During checkout from faasos, I observed that their are several request going to facebook, which carries your faasos detail's without user's consent, Facebook closed my report saying "Unfortunately what you have described is not currently covered by this program, We will follow up with you regarding any questions we may have." (Data Abuse BBP).
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So, lets get started,
You will be aware with the "Cambridge Analytica" case of Facebook,  and after that Facebook launched "Data Abuse Bounty Program" - 9th April 2018.

Well, we all are aware that we have been tracked from years! Whatever we search on the Internet no matter what object it is, in a day or hours it will be on your suggestion or any advertisement banner.

This is the most recent example : Google is always listening: Live Test

I really love eating veg warps from faasos and it was normal day when I did checkout and ordered few of them, however I have a very bad habit of capturing packets.

What I observed was, there were few `GET` & `POST` request of facebook as well in between checkout of faasos at that time I didn't pay much attention on it. On same day, I created a test account on faasos to dig more and clicked on some random wraps, went till checkout and guess what I was still able to see those Facebook request.

I cleared all my history, cookies etc. for the entire day, and thought of doing again, All the request start from login to faasos, and browsing your items in it.

Goes only to `*faasos.io` based asset but as soon as you press checkout a `GET` request goes to Facebook which carries my juicy information of faasos which also include my ordering details.(Strange) Apart from that, I start getting suggestion on my facebook wall regarding faasos.

Okay, then I thought of reporting it to Facebook under Data Abuse Bounty Program and we had a long discussion about this, they(Facebook Security Team) also told me to connect with Faasos Security team and I did the same.

However Faasos security team are not much active but they finally replied me after 4-5 days saying
"Hey Dhiraj, This tool helps us understand customer better and show them more appropriate adverts."

I asked them specifically about tool and where it is been deployed and what all it collects - No reply yet, that's bad I "personally"  feel Faasos been a data-broker over here. While collecting such info Faasos don't even take user's consent. I have seen many application's which take users consent for such things.
The image might not be clear please visit : https://konqueror.org/features/browser.php
And they also offer you to Opt-out from not been track. Pheewww! Now, I understand how all these things work!
That gives lot more understanding of my bug as well, or specifically look the above video from 3.47.25 to 3.51.40 Mins.

On safer side, I would suggest you to enable "Do Not Track Me" on your browser.
Video PoC of my Bug: Facebook Tracking PoC via Faasos.  I hope you like the read. Tweet me your views @mishradhiraj_

Regards
Dhiraj
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