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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 ern »

red_admiral wrote: post #32

I find facebook's effects on privacy and democracy as scary as the next person, but so far their secure coding standards have been extremely high. They're one of the few big names NOT on haveibeenpwned.com, they run their passwords through a KDF and then encrypt the result with a hardware security module, and a whole lot of other good things. I guess even the best (at secure coding) sometimes mess up.

They're one of the few big names NOT on haveibeenpwned.com

Have Amazon, Google, Twitter, Microsoft or Apple been on haveibeenpwned? That’s what I think of when I hear “big names”.

Re: Facebook Network Breach Impacts Up to 50M Users

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Post by oliveshell »

kderbyma wrote: post #486
myth_buster wrote: post #450

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Those articles were hitting their spam filter (not sure why reliable news sources won't be whitelisted) which prevented users from posting and deleted posts that were already made. They may have fixed the "bug" now.

It's because the Guardian is not a 'Reputable' new site wholly. It is still remotely published stories that aren't under employees or constant people. I am pretty sure associated Press is the same. They are better than say Rebel, but not much better

> pretty sure associated Press is the same.

You’re joking, right?

Re: Facebook Network Breach Impacts Up to 50M Users

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Post by chottocharaii »

kderbyma wrote: post #486
myth_buster wrote: post #450

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Those articles were hitting their spam filter (not sure why reliable news sources won't be whitelisted) which prevented users from posting and deleted posts that were already made. They may have fixed the "bug" now.

It's because the Guardian is not a 'Reputable' new site wholly. It is still remotely published stories that aren't under employees or constant people. I am pretty sure associated Press is the same. They are better than say Rebel, but not much better

Lol

Re: Facebook Network Breach Impacts Up to 50M Users

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Post by astronautjones »

Jedi72 wrote: post #485
0xmohit wrote: post #418

Facebook is blocking users from posting stories about its security breach Some users are reporting that they are unable to post today’s big story about a security breach affecting 50 million Facebook users. The issue appears to only affect particular stories from certain outlets, at this time one story from The Guardian and one from the Associated Press, both reputable press outlets. ... The situation is another exam…

I posted on Facebook about how the NSA have a profile of everyones race, sexual preference religion etc- it was in the context of the Australian government digital health record scheme, I basically said no point opting out of that if you already have Facebook. The post was gone within 20 minutes, right off my wall. Facebook is a closed platform now, at least in China everyone acknowledges the censorship, in the west…

>how the NSA have a profile of everyones race, sexual preference religion etc- it was in the context of the Australian government digital health record scheme,

do you have a good link for this?

Re: Facebook Network Breach Impacts Up to 50M Users

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Post by cambalache »

Xyik wrote: post #281

Its sad that everytime there is a post about Facebook the comments are extremely toxic and negative, and don't really even discuss the article itself. I would argue that 80% of all tech companies are doing close to 0 in making the world a 'better place'.

Say, how much money can one make in astroturfing?

Re: Facebook Network Breach Impacts Up to 50M Users

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Post by CM30 »

0xmohit wrote: post #418

Facebook is blocking users from posting stories about its security breach Some users are reporting that they are unable to post today’s big story about a security breach affecting 50 million Facebook users. The issue appears to only affect particular stories from certain outlets, at this time one story from The Guardian and one from the Associated Press, both reputable press outlets. ... The situation is another exam…

Well, that's not gonna cause a bunch of conspiracy theories at all! Doesn't matter if its automated, this has to be the worst time for something like this issue to occur, since everyone will instantly assume the worst.

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Post by jrowley »

kotajacob wrote: post #487
mtrn wrote: post #383

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> What really freaks me out is the day Facebook die, what will happen to all of this data? Interestingly, Facebook owns your data. I believe if they wanted to, they could close the company tomorrow and put a facebook.tar.xz of everything they collected on archive.org or somewhere else.

I wonder if archive.org could actually store that much data.. and how long it would take to create a tar.xz of it.

What file systems would support a tar that big?

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Post by a3n »

0xmohit wrote: post #418

Facebook is blocking users from posting stories about its security breach Some users are reporting that they are unable to post today’s big story about a security breach affecting 50 million Facebook users. The issue appears to only affect particular stories from certain outlets, at this time one story from The Guardian and one from the Associated Press, both reputable press outlets. ... The situation is another exam…

What's going to happen when a world leader dies, or wins an improbable victory in some area? What happens if such a world leader is the public face of some aggrieved political segment? Not just "censorship!", but "a vast techno censorship conspiracy!"

Re: Facebook Network Breach Impacts Up to 50M Users

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Post by dasil003 »

dylan604 wrote: post #185
kidsnow wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Only if the act of logging out explicitly invalidates the token on the server side

This is something I would suspect doesn't actually happen. FB wants to track all of the user's browsing habits, so maybe they just make the actual FB UI look logged out? Security-wise, it would seem to be more complicated by their desire to never let a user be logged out, and looks like it's complicated enough it is biting them in the backside. Oops?!

It’s not really that complicated, you have auth tokens and you have tracking tokens, and you wouldn’t want to mix them anyway because you also want to be able to correlate multiple accounts logged in from the same browser over time.

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Post by discordianfish »

0xmohit wrote: post #418

Facebook is blocking users from posting stories about its security breach Some users are reporting that they are unable to post today’s big story about a security breach affecting 50 million Facebook users. The issue appears to only affect particular stories from certain outlets, at this time one story from The Guardian and one from the Associated Press, both reputable press outlets. ... The situation is another exam…

Believing this is the tech equivalent of believing in chemtrails.
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