Shutterfly is a social media site used to upload photos of kids, phone numbers, addresses, gender, school, and even sport jersey numbers. Although this site is very useful for coaches or other activities, the information uploaded to Shutterfly might not stay on Shutterfly. Many individuals have trusted Shutterfly because of their policy of using Secure Socket Layer. Although Shutterfly claims this, Mother Jones found out the Shutterfly was aware that their website had not been using this security feature due to the amount of cost. A man decided to do his own experiment and created fake accounts on different sites including Shutterfly. He then downloading a hacking software and was able to hack the information he had uploaded. After making his experiment public, Shutterfly says they are addressing the problem and suggests that no one posts private information to Shutterfly.
I found this information very weird and disturbing. First of all, why would a hacker even care to get information on kids regarding their age or gender. Although this is weird, there are people who live in this world who have nothing better to do than still people’s information. I think it is very wrong for Shutterfly to say they use SSL but they really don’t due to the cost. It scares me to think of the sites I have trusted that might not use SSL as well due to cost. Even though technology can be really useful at times, it can also be very dangerous.
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