Doing so could cause Facebook to face legal action in several countries
Facebook does not plan to notify half-billion users affected by data leak
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#312Let's put a permanent tax on Facebook, they have too much money and they need to be fined.
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#313This huge leak has definitely killed the SMS text messaging service. Sender can be spoofed and spam/scam/phishing have reached an intolerable level. The fact that they can cross reference you and then produce a more personalized content is huge. Changing password is easy (ok less easy if you recycle it) but changing phone number is something that I am not even relaxed to do.
Can anyone on HN please explain why, why, WHY are we still using SMS/telephony which has exactly 0 encryption wh---I guess that's the reason? It's insane. I've heard banks using SMS!!!! To send a code. We have TOTP for that! Or even perhaps a push notification or something better than bloody SMS. I refuse to use the networking system altogether. No phones, no calls. Of course you do 'need' a number so I keep one hand…
Can my website send 2fa tokens via iMessage?
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#314Earlier quoted context omitted.
Scam? That assumes deliberately misleading people for the scammer to benefit. Who exactly is benefiting from this? While I don't agree that it's obvious even now that that using real names is damaging (i.e. makes things worse than anonymity/pseudonymity) the assumption that it's a scam goes 100% against Hanlon's razor. It's pretty easy to claim that using real names online does more harm than good when pointing at a…
Real names were facebooks selling point. 'Join in, all the friends you know by name are here, upload your entire phonebook to us, look everyone's doing it'. Facebook's quick growth made billions and billions to some of people
I'm not sure that was the selling point but that doesn't make it a scam, right? Especially because if it did work as a selling point it means that people were also benefiting, so it couldn't really have been a scam.
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#315Earlier quoted context omitted.
Scam? That assumes deliberately misleading people for the scammer to benefit. Who exactly is benefiting from this? While I don't agree that it's obvious even now that that using real names is damaging (i.e. makes things worse than anonymity/pseudonymity) the assumption that it's a scam goes 100% against Hanlon's razor. It's pretty easy to claim that using real names online does more harm than good when pointing at a…
> Who exactly is benefiting from this? Facebook.
Oh, I wasn't aware that the GP comment suggested that it's something invented by FB. Anyway, how is it a scam and how is FB benefiting from the real names? Especially at the expense of the people? Another commenter above said that they think the real names were the main selling point of FB. Maybe. But then it's not a scam by definition (as FB is a very popular product and if the real names made it to be that, then that's what the people wanted most).