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Fun fact: https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/09/security-update/ was published at 16:42:44. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/28/technology/facebook-hack-... was published at 16:45:41. NYT writes fast :)
Fun fact: https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/09/security-update/ was published at 16:42:44. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/28/technology/facebook-hack-... was published at 16:45:41. NYT writes fast :)
Some more details here: https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/09/security-update/
Oh, wait, it doesn't matter since they move heaven and earth to collect and store my data anyway, and of course I can't get them to delete it.
Seriously, fuck Facebook.
I wonder where the "50M users" estimate comes from. It seems like the feature that caused it, "View As", is probably available to more than that many people. Does this mean that they managed to trace the attacker capturing the access tokens of 50M users? Even allowing for the bug in the first place, it seems like exploiting it should be detected before 50M uses.
Probably they have stats on how many people actually used the feature.
On the one hand, every time another scandal or breach is revealed about centralized networks, I want to post this and have everyone recognize the root problem and the solution: https://Qbix.com (see the video) On the other hand, I feel like I’m shamelessly promoting/shilling my own company. How to do it in a classy way? I really believe that there is a problem people are not recognizing enough to do something about i…
Fun fact: https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/09/security-update/ was published at 16:42:44. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/28/technology/facebook-hack-... was published at 16:45:41. NYT writes fast :)
I suspected there was a breach of some sort, when my tokens expired in three places simultaniously, this morning. First thing I did was search google news, nothing had been written yet. I wasnt sure they would ever announce it, probably depends on the scale.
Is it wrong to be glad FB's reputation has tarnished (and stock price sideways) over the past year or so? For so long they've monopolized the talent pool in the Bay Area. If more people decide 1) they don't want to work at FB and 2) FB employees are itching to leave then I see any stain on FB's employment brand as a net positive to the greater tech + startup ecosystem.
they havent monopolized talent, they pay for talent. Facebook paying high salaries has increased all of our pay, equity etc, whether you work there or not. The only thing this may be bad for is founders who are in a zero sum competition with FB for talent and now need to spend more money and equity to get it.
So, yes, I believe they are trying to corner the market on the best programmers.
I personally did not get any explanation as to why I had to log back in. It did surprise me to be logged out this morning and was wondering why.
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You only get to see your own profile. It's a very useful tool to make sure you're not leaking data you people you'd rather not give it to.
... until the mechanism turns out to have an exploit, as just happened here.