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Facebook Network Breach Impacts Up to 50M Users

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Re: Facebook Network Breach Impacts Up to 50M Users

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Post by CPLX »

testplzignore wrote: post #53

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 :)

The press release was almost certainly sent to the NYT in advance of its release, but embargoed.

Source: I spent years at a national PR agency

Re: Facebook Network Breach Impacts Up to 50M Users

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Post by tmalsburg2 »

gouggoug wrote: post #79

From Facebook's announcement: "After they have logged back in, people will get a notification at the top of their News Feed explaining what happened." 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.

This is how you are treated when you're not a customer. Glad I left a couple of years back.

Re: Facebook Network Breach Impacts Up to 50M Users

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Post by inglor »

lemming wrote: post #74

I'm glad this doesn't affect me since I don't use Facebook. 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.

Random question - is there a way to naturalize in the EU and use GDPR to ask Facebook to remove your data? (For example an Estonian digital citizenship)

I might be way way off and I am (obviously) not a lawyer but interested in material about this.

Re: Facebook Network Breach Impacts Up to 50M Users

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Post by RoadieRoller »

My mind has fashioned me to think that these leaks, so called, are planned. To why I think so, is simple. When you, as Facebook, sell user data to other companies/third parties/countries, then it is crime, or is subject to investigation when it is known. But these so called leaks, are deemed "we are sorry, we will fix it, but we are so sorry about the data". And that is it. No one is responsible.

Now you have 50 million people's data for sale. Are you in that 50 million? You don't know or you will never know.

Connected incidents - British Airways Data Leak, Equifax, Uber Data Theft Cover Up, Air Canada, T-Mobile, Dixons Carphone......how many such. All of them soon will be available for sale, with no one to blame for.

Re: Facebook Network Breach Impacts Up to 50M Users

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Post by dylan604 »

gouggoug wrote: post #79

From Facebook's announcement: "After they have logged back in, people will get a notification at the top of their News Feed explaining what happened." 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.

Logged out of and back into what? Your mobile app? Your web browser tab that is left open indefinitely? I no longer use FB, so just curious. I know people that never log out of FB, and have closed their browser window/tab thinking that was good enough even though the "remember me" type option was checked. Opening a new window/tab to FB would show their account just like nothing happened because they did not log out. I know this is to FB's advantage of tracking all the things, but wow what a security nightmare.

Re: Facebook Network Breach Impacts Up to 50M Users

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Post by y-c-o-m-b »

lemming wrote: post #74

I'm glad this doesn't affect me since I don't use Facebook. 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.

This is precisely why people should be upset over the massive data mining tactics of Facebook. Maybe it's not a big deal to some people that Facebook knows everything about them, but it should be a huge deal to everyone when that data is then accessed by hackers with malicious intent - from identity theft to blackmail to threats against life - all made easier with this data available to criminals.

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Post by ummonk »

umeshunni wrote: post #157
JumpCrisscross wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> there is also prestige associated to big names I hate that this has happened. The Bay Area used to be a place where working for the big, shiny company that makes your parents happy wasn't prestigious. It was safe. But taking a risk and starting something new was admired. The present state of affairs reminds me of Wall Street.

What happened was that VCs started sucking up all the equity and it became not worth it from a risk-reward perspective for most people to work at a startup. This, coupled with companies staying private longer meant that in the lat 5 years, you were better off working at G/FB than a small or mid-sized startup. e.g https://www.slideshare.net/a16z/state-of-49390473/29-29Becau...

While VCs certainly played into this, I'd say founders merit the bulk of the blame. VCs are generally more amenable than founders to larger equity pools for employees. They're also much more enthusiastic about IPOs than founders, since they want liquidity events for their investments.

Re: Facebook Network Breach Impacts Up to 50M Users

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Post by dkrich »

testplzignore wrote: post #53

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 :)

There's something ironic about NYT getting a lot of its traffic these days by writing recaps of Facebook news.
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