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There are non-evil uses of that data, of course. A custom-built news feed for example. That would actually be pretty nice...

That's okay when it comes from Facebook. Everybody on Facebook signed up with Facebook. It's sharing with third parties that I don't think is cool.

There are non-evil uses for anything. That doesn't mean we don't need security.

Never said that there wasn't. I was responding to someone who couldn't fathom a legitimate use of the friend data.