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I don't work for facebook. I don't have a facebook. I don't like facebook. What I do like is honesty. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_breach https://en.wik
by verylittlemeat 9y ago
I don't work for facebook. I don't have a facebook. I don't like facebook.
What I do like is honesty.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_breach https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_breach
Look at this very robust list of data breaches and tell me how the CA/Facebook incident this week looks anything like any of them.
- lightbyte 9y ago2006 - AOL search data scandal [1] >The release was intentional and intended for research purposes; Sounds pretty damn close to this event with Facebook [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_search_data_leak https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_search_data_leak
- verylittlemeat 9y agoAn analogous example would be if the CA/FB breach had access to private facebook messages or information that was never intended for public consumption. In the CA/FB case the information was either public (and could be scraped as such) or was collected in the form of facebook apps.
- ahakki 9y agoThis is not true. The old Facebook API gave access to all data the user had access to. This included information (posts, photos…) by “friends” which was not public.
- FilterSweep 9y agoYou're right, it looks worse.
- CodeSheikh 9y agoThis data breach is different in nature. It is not same as Ashley Madison or Experian where someone got hold of root pwd or some other data storage (some form of hacking involved). This is about third party using Facebook's API to access user data and exploiting those API to retrieve hoards of information about a particular user. IN this case, Facebook most likely knew which third party developer was heavily hitting a certain API in a certain pattern but they decided to turn a blind eye.