Is Facebook even safe anymore?
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Is Facebook even safe anymore?
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Re: Is Facebook even safe anymore?
#2It never was safe.
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#3Working in Japan security breaches can and do happen, but when they do the government has the ability to fine said corporation or even force them to cease offering services for a period of time.
I get the distinct impression that US companies largely face no consequences for data breaches and when they do it's fines that equate to less than a percent of their annual profits. Unless something changes there is very little incentive to start taking this stuff seriously.
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#4tl;dr The author worries that Facebook data breaches suggest unfixable infosec problems at the company.
My response:
Data breaches are a secondary concern. Facebook has too much data for anyone to exfiltrate a large percentage of it.
The primary bad actor is Facebook itself, which can analyze and operate on all of that data (to share with governments, partners, or psychological experiments).
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#5Working in Japan security breaches can and do happen, but when they do the government has the ability to fine said corporation or even force them to cease offering services for a period of time. I get the distinct impression that US companies largely face no consequences for data breaches and when they do it's fines that equate to less than a percent of their annual profits. Unless something changes there is very lit…
Despite all that, Japanese IT data security is a joke though. They all talk the talk here but most systems I've seen are held together by sticks and glue on the backend. If I didn't live here I wouldn't dream of giving my data to a Japanese firm.
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#6Facebook is a data breach.
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#7Working in Japan security breaches can and do happen, but when they do the government has the ability to fine said corporation or even force them to cease offering services for a period of time. I get the distinct impression that US companies largely face no consequences for data breaches and when they do it's fines that equate to less than a percent of their annual profits. Unless something changes there is very lit…
Despite all that, Japanese IT data security is a joke though. They all talk the talk here but most systems I've seen are held together by sticks and glue on the backend. If I didn't live here I wouldn't dream of giving my data to a Japanese firm.
...sony...
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#8Meh. Email address, date of birth, names, phone numbers aren’t private. Some of these we even willingly disseminate publicly.
If these pieces of data are used for authentication for some other service (cough healthcare), that is a flaw elsewhere - not with Facebook.
If we are gonna be upset about this we should still be upset about Equifax, which we totally forgot, didn’t we?
I’m now under the assumption that some kind of data breach of mine is inevitable. It’s not worth stressing out about in a lot of ways.
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#9tl;dr The author worries that Facebook data breaches suggest unfixable infosec problems at the company. My response: Data breaches are a secondary concern. Facebook has too much data for anyone to exfiltrate a large percentage of it. The primary bad actor is Facebook itself, which can analyze and operate on all of that data (to share with governments, partners, or psychological experiments).
But then again, the practices you mention in your last paragraph have literally nothing to do with the subject of this article (not saying that I do or don’t agree with you there).
Re: Is Facebook even safe anymore?
#10It never, or at least not for a long time now, has been safe.
Data breaches are not even the main concern. The main concern is, how FB itself acts with your data in its pockets. Do not trust the a millimeter far.