sgrenfro

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by sgrenfro 12y ago
I'm a software engineer at FB working on a mix of privacy and security. Want to forward me the info, and I'll look into it? srenfro@fb.com
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by sgrenfro 12y ago
Roger Dingledine (Tor project, not FB) shared some accurate background here: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2014-October...
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by sgrenfro 12y ago
Also commented downthread, but we got extremely lucky then went the backronym route as shawabawa3 guessed. (I'm an engineer at FB.)
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by sgrenfro 12y ago
FB engineer here. We got extremely lucky then went the backronym route as shawabawa3 guessed.
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by sgrenfro 13y ago
I'm a software engineer at Facebook working on security and privacy. This is simply a hoax. The html source shown in the video clearly says "No test user was deleted". We've verified in our logs that the victim account w
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by sgrenfro 13y ago
Country here means the country making the request.
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by sgrenfro 13y ago
Re: #2. Basically correct. Reporting a range that includes all requests, including those that can't be disclosed individually, is the best outcome we've been able to negotiate so far. Here's the answer in the FAQ: Why did you
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by sgrenfro 13y ago
In the meantime, here's a screenshot so you can see it without logging in: http://i.imgur.com/025M2E6.png
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by sgrenfro 13y ago
I'm a software engineer at Facebook. Requiring login for this page was a simple oversight and should be fixed sometime this evening California time. Sorry for the confusion.
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by sgrenfro 13y ago
I work on this at Facebook and we do permanently delete your content when you delete your account. It's an interesting distributed systems problem, and we're happy with the framework we've developed for this. We're worki
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by sgrenfro 13y ago
When the delete button affects a single row in a single database table, it's indeed really simple. Even if it's a few rows on a single database, you can use transactions. Either way, the deletion succeeds or you surface an error m
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by sgrenfro 13y ago
I'd like to think we wouldn't need to make such a fundamental change again in the future, but if we did decide it was necessary, I hope that we would give everyone plenty of time to make whatever change to their account was necess
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by sgrenfro 13y ago
My name is Scott Renfro, and I’m a software engineer at Facebook working on security and privacy. I thought I'd post the comment I submitted on the original blog post here as well. We’ve put a lot of work into making deletions permanen
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Paul Graham was right about privacy(blog.mizannethrope.com)
3 points by sgrenfro 14y ago|0 comments