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Why would humans be reading these log files?

• chatmasta 8y ago
  For plenty of reasons, I'm sure. From the article: > My Facebook insider said access logs showed some 2,000 engineers or developers made approximately nine million internal queries for data elements that contained plain text user passwords.
  • YokoZar 8y ago
    That doesn't sound like a human reading the log. It sounds like automation. A script counting the number of successful logins, for instance, could read the same data element that unintentionally contained passwords.
    • code_duck 8y ago
      We don’t have enough information to make that judgment.
• code_duck 8y ago
  When you’re developing a feature like this, don’t you look at the data that you’re logging in to make sure things are working properly? I would imagine that Facebook has many layers of abstraction, but in somewhere, incompetence or inattention must be involved, sometimes known as negligence, if not outright knowledge of this. The definition of that is a complex thing, but if someone could have reasoned that this was logging plaintext passwords, and either saw it and didn’t bother to change things, or didn’t think about it carefully enough to realize that it was doing this, it would be considered negligent. I know that I would feel that my trust in this organization has been betrayed, as a user.