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I shared the YT link directly, and it went to the wall.
Well, at least this confirms that facebook does have the ability to filter out blacklisted URLS to the public friend feed.
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I shared the YT link directly, and it went to the wall.
Well, at least this confirms that facebook does have the ability to filter out blacklisted URLS to the public friend feed.
"Chat is down for maintenance at this time"
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Can we still be angry at incompetence?
Not really. Everyone on this site has worked in software development at one point, right? So everyone here has written a bug before. Its reasonable to expect every piece of software (short of the stuff on the space shuttle) to have bugs. It simply isn't feasible for most software companies to find and fix all of the problems with their products. Facebook, like all other software, is bound to have bugs. If you don't w…
"Chat is down for maintenance at this time"
Are we sure the security hole was limited to merely viewing your friends' live chats? Sure, the "review how your profile appears to another person" search box will only give you your friends --- but you can change the "viewas" id manually. Edit: I see someone in the Techcrunch comments section posted what he claims to be Mark Zuckerberg's pending friends requests - Ctrl+F for "Random Jo - May 5th, 2010 at 3:04 pm UTC…
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Can we still be angry at incompetence?
Possibly even more so than at malice. If an organization acts out of malice, you can change its behaviour by educating it about its best interests or moving to disincent its malicious behaviour. But incompetence, especially systemic incompetence, is extraordinarily difficult to change. Facebook appears to have ADD around user privacy and its interface. Designs come and go, defaults change capriciously, and security s…
I'm pretty sure we'd see them wise up quickly when presented with a taste of their own dogfood.
Missed opportunity!