WARNING: Facebook Design Flaw..., ...Groups Hacked

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On Facebook, anyone can start a group. And the admin of a group controls various aspects of it: he can change its name, edit its info and picture or send messages to the members.

But when an admin leaves, anyone else can join the group and register as the new admin. From what we can gather, this behavior is WAI (working as intended), or at least it’s been that way for quite some time now. But it’s also an obvious design flaw, and now a group called Control Your Info is abusing it (or raising awareness about it, depending on how you look at it) by finding groups without admins and taking them over.

http://mashable.com/2009/11/10/facebook-groups-hacked/

came across any?

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I haven’t encountered that.

What I know is, before the former admin leaves, he will appoint a new admin to control the group.
If no person is qualified for admin, the current admin will close the group.

Well, that is not much a problem, unless the group has valuable info, eg an FBI facebook group.

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Well when I have nothing to do with a group I just delete it!
Because who knows what will be done by the other memebers!

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I have never tried creating a group. but isn’t there any option to control what members can do?..

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