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sgrenfro

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    Comment #8702522

    I'm a software engineer at FB working on a mix of privacy and security. Want to forward me the info, and I'll look into it? srenfro@fb.com

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    Comment #8538564

    Roger Dingledine (Tor project, not FB) shared some accurate background here: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2014-October...

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    Comment #8538490

    Also commented downthread, but we got extremely lucky then went the backronym route as shawabawa3 guessed. (I'm an engineer at FB.)

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    Comment #8538468

    FB engineer here. We got extremely lucky then went the backronym route as shawabawa3 guessed.

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    Comment #6336861

    I'm a software engineer at Facebook working on security and privacy. This is simply a hoax. The html source shown in the video clearly says "No test user was deleted". We've verifi…

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    Comment #6286170

    Country here means the country making the request.

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    Comment #6284328

    Re: #2. Basically correct. Reporting a range that includes all requests, including those that can't be disclosed individually, is the best outcome we've been able to negotiate so f…

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    Comment #6284024

    In the meantime, here's a screenshot so you can see it without logging in: http://i.imgur.com/025M2E6.png

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    Comment #6283796

    I'm a software engineer at Facebook. Requiring login for this page was a simple oversight and should be fixed sometime this evening California time. Sorry for the confusion.

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    Comment #6029620

    I work on this at Facebook and we do permanently delete your content when you delete your account. It's an interesting distributed systems problem, and we're happy with the framewo…

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    Comment #5978184

    When the delete button affects a single row in a single database table, it's indeed really simple. Even if it's a few rows on a single database, you can use transactions. Either wa…

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    Comment #5975054

    I'd like to think we wouldn't need to make such a fundamental change again in the future, but if we did decide it was necessary, I hope that we would give everyone plenty of time t…

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    Comment #5974713

    My name is Scott Renfro, and I’m a software engineer at Facebook working on security and privacy. I thought I'd post the comment I submitted on the original blog post here as well.…

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