Hacking Your Location With Facebook Places

Facebook recently released a new feature called "Places" which aims to tap into the growing location based services market made popular by other social networks like FourSquare and Gowalla. Facebook Places allows you to "check-in" to a location with your mobile device. You can check-in with the official Facebook application for the iPhone or Android or you can use the Facebook mobile site: touch.facebook.com. You can use touch.facebook.com if you have a location aware web browser such as Firefox, Opera or Chrome. In this post we will explore what Facebook Places is, how businesses are going to use it, the privacy and security concerns, and how one can fake a location check-in with a few easy steps.

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