Encouraging young people to vote is a great idea, but asking for social security numbers with no encryption or security whatsoever is downright retardulous.
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Saturday, January 5, 2008
Facebook Voter Registration App Asks for SSN w/o SSL
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the article posted on digg was in error.
the author has corrected his original post:
http://orthodoxanarchist.com/2008/01/05/facebook-voter-registration-app-asks-for-ssn-without-ssl/
the voter registration form on facebook - which is generated by a widget that was created by credo mobile and runs off of our API - posts data submitted via https to a secure site.
it's secure.
becky bond
political director
credo mobile / working assets
sorry, the url for the updated original post - that confirms the voter registration process is secure - is here.
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