When the Facebook hack comes, it will be devastating.
Where are you going to upload that many users? Pretty sure they have a good bug bounty program.
“One billion people used Facebook in a single day”
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#32When the Facebook hack comes, it will be devastating.
Getting in might be possible, but then the attacker would have to covertly exfiltrate and store all of Facebook's content to do a dump. Does J. Random Attacker have enough storage to do this?
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#33As astounding as this number is - and the longer I think about it the more mind blowing it gets - Facebook is all-but the single-point-of-failure for an Internet that was designed not to do that.
I look forward to the day we build these new protocols (sharing, social graphs, even search) in open distributed ways - the day Facebook becomes AOL in other words. I'm just not sure how.
And if I was any non-US culture-aligned country, I would be wondering how to build that replacement - this is like television in the 1950s, but everyone around the world is watching NBC.
But boy does 100bn dollars look cheap now.
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#34To give you an idea of how big one billion actually is, (assuming you count once per second) it takes over 11 days to count up to 1 million.
It takes over 31 years to count up to 1 billion.
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#35used Facebook in a single day Just to clarify, is that fb.com, messenger, whatsapp, comment widgets etc combined?
I highly doubt they think that way when qualifying numbers for PR purposes. Regardless of how they connected to Facebook it is still Facebook Inc and it is still hell of a number.
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#36When the Facebook hack comes, it will be devastating.
The torrent to end all torrents.
Would it even be possible to exfiltrate all that data? It's hard to imagine even storing all that they're generating in a single day. What's the most an attacker could likely get? Usernames & passwords for all users? Complete profile/album/comment data on a few tens of millions?
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#37To give you an idea of how big one billion actually is, (assuming you count once per second) it takes over 11 days to count up to 1 million. It takes over 31 years to count up to 1 billion.
Wow that's almost 32 years.
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#38I'm curious to know what the metric is actually measuring. Is it one billion people that hit Facebook.com or used the mobile app? Or is it also counting people that might have triggered a hit just by browsing around sites with Like buttons on them while logged in, but didn't actually use Facebook? To some extent it doesn't matter because it's just such a massive and impressive number, but I'd be curious to know.
My guess would be 1 billion unique accounts logged in today, via one means or another. Absolutely mind blowing.
I wonder how many of those accounts are fake / sockpuppet / astroturf / paid likes
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#39Regardless of whether this includes real people or not, that's still quite a bit of load that they're able to handle. Have other services like Google or YouTube reached this milestone as well or is this an overall first for any site?
Considering Android and Chrome have exceeded a billion users each (e.g. [1]), just default search page alone should guarantee that, let alone people who use google search in other browsers, youtube, google maps, gmail etc
[1] http://venturebeat.com/2015/05/28/google-chrome-now-has-over...
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The torrent to end all torrents.
Would it even be possible to exfiltrate all that data? It's hard to imagine even storing all that they're generating in a single day. What's the most an attacker could likely get? Usernames & passwords for all users? Complete profile/album/comment data on a few tens of millions?
Very insightful question. The only way I could see this working is having a botnet network that extracts the data externally, encrypts and stores locally, and then each node serves up its cache over bittorrent to a command and control system.
It's just so much data. The more valuable data, arguably, would be plain text profile data about people, not their photos.
Assuming 7 billion people in the world (very conservative, for funsies), each profile containing 10 megabytes of profile data (exclude photos, just textual data), uncompressed, would be 70 petabytes. A lot of data to be sure, but not unsurmountable. Compressed, you could probably get down to 30-40 PB depending on compressibility.