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FriendFeed has none of the issues and does not have the critical mass to draw the sort of high-profile attention the defacers were seeking. Given enough scale,

by johns 18y ago

FriendFeed has none of the issues and does not have the critical mass to draw the sort of high-profile attention the defacers were seeking. Given enough scale, FriendFeed will have its share of issues.

biohacker42 18y ago
I can believe the "True geometric growth is hard to deal with period." argument when it comes to downtime. But what does scale have to do with security?
- wmf 18y ago
  More users -> more attackers -> more holes found.
  - Herring 18y ago
    Attackers can only find holes that are there to begin with.
    - wmf 18y ago
      There are always holes.
      - Herring 18y ago
        Some architectures are more resistant than others. I suppose you could break into some air gapped military computers -- if you had a nuke. why are we even discussing this?
        sanswork 18y ago
        Or someone on your payroll on the inside.
        Herring 18y ago
        Well that's universal. You can't exactly protect against someone who's also supposed to hold the keys to the system. Its more a feature than a bug.