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Facebook employees opened a privately shared Google Sheet
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Re: Facebook employees opened a privately shared Google Sheet
#12Discussed earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15595705
Now both are flagged...
Re: Facebook employees opened a privately shared Google Sheet
#13What an absolute joke of a thread. Very obviously a preview generation bot. I've never actually visited /r/privacy but I am far from impressed. Way too many unknowledgeable / alarmist comments and nobody with any visible technical knowledge beyond an understanding of the various technologies that privacy advocates tell other privacy advocates to use. It's amazing how many comments are saying "use PGP stupid!" when there's nobody that knows how modern web scraping works.
Re: Facebook employees opened a privately shared Google Sheet
#14What an absolute joke of a thread. Very obviously a preview generation bot. I've never actually visited /r/privacy but I am far from impressed. Way too many unknowledgeable / alarmist comments and nobody with any visible technical knowledge beyond an understanding of the various technologies that privacy advocates tell other privacy advocates to use. It's amazing how many comments are saying "use PGP stupid!" when th…
The point is that this wouldn't happen with SMS or phone calls, because there are laws preventing such abuses.
Re: Facebook employees opened a privately shared Google Sheet
#15Clearly there is a market need for 'facebook mask' which sends one version of the link if it is being read by facebook and one if it is read by the intended recipient. Note, don't actually do this it will get you in trouble and likely banned from facebook.
Interesting, but how would you check if it's one or the other? By IP? Could work for defined cases, but developing a universal technique could be tricky if all previous communication happens via FB. Much easier to use another platform.
Re: Facebook employees opened a privately shared Google Sheet
#16It’s obviously bots.
Frustrating the number of commenters who jumped to the “Facebook is evil” conclusion immediately.
Re: Facebook employees opened a privately shared Google Sheet
#17I don't understand why it matters whether or not it is a bot. That's still extremely shady to do
Re: Facebook employees opened a privately shared Google Sheet
#18What an absolute joke of a thread. Very obviously a preview generation bot. I've never actually visited /r/privacy but I am far from impressed. Way too many unknowledgeable / alarmist comments and nobody with any visible technical knowledge beyond an understanding of the various technologies that privacy advocates tell other privacy advocates to use. It's amazing how many comments are saying "use PGP stupid!" when th…
Well, when everyone that understands exactly how the surveillance of the modern internet works has a hand in building it, don't be surprised where there's no one left to make the well informed case against the surveillance apparatus.