Facebook: A Privacy Error ??
If you want to identify your facebook account there are 3 ways you can Identify yourself: 1. Provide your e-mail ID. 2. Provide your Phone number (If you have given this in you profile). 3. Provide your user ID(your unique id assigned by the facebook). Screenshot below shows the page (https://www.facebook.com/login/identify?ctx=recover) to identify your account in case you want to recover. The other way to look into this is this can also be misused to validate someones phone number. Let say my phone number is 9739141XXX. I put it there and I see myself.So the phone number and profile relation can be seen successfully. But I have kept my privacy settings to most secure that "Only Friends"(shown in screenshot below) can look to my phone numbers. Isn't this is a privacy breach. But here is the catch.Facebook is smart and keeps the log of Public IPs you are coming from. If you have logged in from the same Public IP before this privacy se