Facebook snags Geohot • Hacker News Board

Re: Facebook snags Geohot

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Post by timmins » Mon, Jun 27, 2011, 1:16 AM UTC

jevinskie wrote: post #13

orijing wrote: post #11

He sits in front of me. I'm surprised the news didn't leak out sooner. He's a cool dude. I don't see any of the perceived threats hinted in the comments.

Can you shed any light on what is role at Facebook is? My guess would be that he has been tasked with improving security.

If I had to guess... I bet he's playing a significant role in their mobile strategy. Maybe related, a story broke last week with MG that they want to deploy a platform, via the browser.

Project Spartan - http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/15/facebook-project-spartan

Re: Facebook snags Geohot

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Post by omouse » Mon, Jun 27, 2011, 2:01 AM UTC

redthrowaway wrote: post #18

lhnz wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think it's fair to discuss any perceived moral problem around this. Facebook pays well and you get to work with some very smart people on a far-reaching product. That's a good job.

How does paying well and being full of nerds obviate a moral dilemma? If working for facebook is morally wrong (feel free to argue on this one), then neither of those conditions changes things. It can be both a smart move for geohot, as well as an immoral one. Again, I'm not saying that working for facebook is bad. I'm saying that it's rightness or wrongness is not determined by how well they pay or how many geeks th…

You can't have morals if you're starving ;p

Re: Facebook snags Geohot

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Post by Xuzz » Mon, Jun 27, 2011, 2:16 AM UTC

mikemaccana wrote: post #39

reso wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The argument is friends' contact info belongs to your friends, not to you. Its a social grey area that has been created by the internet, the correct protocols have yet to be defined.

I can access my friends contact info (including email addresses and phone numbers) as I like, within FB's platform. FB just restricts me from accessing that once I;m not longer connected to it. Indeed, you're right - that's the argument - but I suspect it's merely used as a justification to FB's commercial benefit.

Yes, but the question was about downloading what you put in, not what other people put in that you happen to have access to.

Re: Facebook snags Geohot

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Post by Joakal » Mon, Jun 27, 2011, 3:03 AM UTC

reso wrote: post #26

Sephr wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

1. Of your friends, you just get a list of names, not any contact information whatsoever.

The argument is friends' contact info belongs to your friends, not to you. Its a social grey area that has been created by the internet, the correct protocols have yet to be defined.

Facebook has several features requesting users to add not only their username but passwords to other websites, to add friends. The same can not be said of Facebook [0]. The CEO is allegedly said to take advantage of journalists who provided their details to access journalists' private emails [1].

[0] http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/11/google-facebook-data/

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/how-mark-zuckerberg-hacked-in...

Re: Facebook snags Geohot

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Post by mikemaccana » Mon, Jun 27, 2011, 7:16 AM UTC

Xuzz wrote: post #43

mikemaccana wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can access my friends contact info (including email addresses and phone numbers) as I like, within FB's platform. FB just restricts me from accessing that once I;m not longer connected to it. Indeed, you're right - that's the argument - but I suspect it's merely used as a justification to FB's commercial benefit.

Yes, but the question was about downloading what you put in, not what other people put in that you happen to have access to.

I put in email addresses. I can't get them out.