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What you are proposing is that third-party apps should ask Facebook's app to find the friends, right? But Facebook's app needs to access Facebook's database so
by progval 6y ago
What you are proposing is that third-party apps should ask Facebook's app to find the friends, right?
But Facebook's app needs to access Facebook's database somehow; and anyone can impersonate Facebook's app and query that database too.
- varispeed 6y agoI think it should be illegal for apps to help find friends. If you genuinely meet someone offline, then they could generate you a token that then you could enter on the site to "connect".
- amluto 6y agoFacebook’s phone app does not need to access the database. The whole thing could be implemented on the backend.
- progval 6y agoThis is what I meant. Replace "database" with "backend" in my previous message and it still stands.