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Likely the source of the loose attitude on privacy.
by te_chris 13y ago
Likely the source of the loose attitude on privacy.
- cpeterso 13y agoFor example, every software developer at Facebook has root access to all production servers and databases.
- meowface 13y agoSource? Do you work there, or know someone who does?
- onedev 13y agoEven interns had this access.
- meowface 13y agoI've been given root access to a handful of internal servers as an intern at some companies in the past, but never database servers or production, customer-facing servers. That seems rather ridiculous.
- onedev 13y agoIt's just part of the engineering culture there. There's a lot of transparency and they try to keep everything as open as they can internally.
- cpeterso 13y agoThat's what a Facebook employee told me last month. For similar stories: Katherine Losse, Facebook employee #51, wrote a biography [1] that includes details about early days when the master password was "Chuck Norris". And this 2010 interview [2] with an "anonymous Facebook employee" (for what that's worth :) also describes how engineers can access user data. [1] http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304898704577478483529665936 http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230489870... [2] http://therumpus.net/2010/01/conversations-about-the-internet-5-anonymous-facebook-employee/?all=1 http://therumpus.net/2010/01/conversations-about-the-interne...
- dcsommer 13y agoThis is not true.
- gfosco 13y agoNope. Could not possibly be further from the truth. Epic level bullshit.
- cpeterso 13y agoIf this is BS, then that relieves me. This is what a trustworthy acquaintance who is an engineer at Facebook told me. As onedev said below, all access is logged and changes can be rolled back. Engineers use live user data for their local development and testing. But maybe this level of access is limited to certain feature teams.