Facebook confirms every single bit of data on its servers has been leaked. Why does FB even pretend anything they have is secure?
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Facebook Confirms Millions of Instagram Passwords Were Stored in Plain Text
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I never had a Facebook account, was asked to open one many years ago, I didn't, what I had though was Whatsapp, it's still widely used in Europe, several years ago it was sold to Facebook with promises they would not change it, well, sadly they lied, a few years back I deleted Whatsapp, but had to install it again, last week I told family and friends that I would delete it, got a lot of negative feedback, like, "hey brother,I am not installing any other App", whatever, I today (just now) deleted WhatApp.
Criminals, Zuck should be caned.
They are occupied with Brexit, give it a year.
Criminals, Zuck should be caned.
They are occupied with Brexit, give it a year.
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I think Facebook & related companies scandals average about one every other day now. Why isn't there a federal investigation and how the HELL did they ever get through the scrutiny to go public originally!?
My friends all complained about my insisting on using Telegram but since using it they all prefer it, though it's not as widely used which is a shame.
I uninstalled WA the day Facebook bought it. I learned later on they changed the T&C's so they stated that they would no longer have to notify users of subsequent changes to the T&C's. That's the kind of carp behaviour The Messiah endorses.
I do have several other messaging (Not social) Apps but few (family/friends) are on them, I bet most even don't know Whatsapp and Instagram are owned by/part of Facebook.
Some people are just headstrong.
It almost feels like Facebook has developed this strategy of bombarding us with these disturbing bombshells to the point where everyone becomes fatigued to the point of apathy. This will keep happening until they have to suffer some serious consequences which they bafflingly continue to avoid.
I've never trusted Facebook. Or any online site for that matter. I post/share/store nothing online that I wouldn't be worried if it showed up on CNN one day.
That said, I do use it, and the only reason Facebook is still so big is because there is literally nothing viable to replace it. There's too much inertia behind it. Switching to any other platform would only be useful if everyone else switched as well. Google learned this with their Google+ experiment... if not even Google can lure a critical mass away from Facebook, it's going to be a while before something else does.
That said, I do use it, and the only reason Facebook is still so big is because there is literally nothing viable to replace it. There's too much inertia behind it. Switching to any other platform would only be useful if everyone else switched as well. Google learned this with their Google+ experiment... if not even Google can lure a critical mass away from Facebook, it's going to be a while before something else does.
That's another problem with Facebook. Even if you don't chooae to use it, you are still on it and they still know lots about you, such is their level of data mining of those users who do use it.
All very true. But there's nothing about me that they can learn that bothers me. My life is not made worse, or compromised in any way because they learn stuff about what I click on.
A website is designed to share personal information. Lots of people decide to share their personal information.
A bit later, it turns out the website shared a bit more information than they admitted to.
Most people: “yeah, unsurprising..”
Some people: “outrageous! I only wanted 90% of my personal information shared across the world”
A few people: “...then don’t spend half your life on a website that has the sole objective of sharing your personal information, you plonkers...”
A bit later, it turns out the website shared a bit more information than they admitted to.
Most people: “yeah, unsurprising..”
Some people: “outrageous! I only wanted 90% of my personal information shared across the world”
A few people: “...then don’t spend half your life on a website that has the sole objective of sharing your personal information, you plonkers...”
It all comes down to convenience trumping security. FB has its tentacles in me due to its being a single point of login verification for so many other websites and services which I use - including MacRumors. People use Amazon for the convenience of shopping efficiently for a diverse cast of products. People use Google for the ubiquity of its search engine and its cheap email and cloud storage services. People use Windows as an OS because it is spread universally across cheap PC products and has a shallow learning curve, having been around the business/desktop for decades. People use Apple products, at least historically, because "they just work".
As an irony, before posting this comment, I was prompted to login to MacRumors using <drumroll> Facebook for verification. I could remove myself from its hold, but that would entail changing my login credentials for a plethora of blogs, news subscriptions, and commercial web services, as well as requiring that I transfer 12 or more years of FB photos and correspondence to other media. In summary, "that's why", at least as I see it.
I worry that Facebook has an internal graph showing how many active users they lose after each privacy breach, and it demonstrates to them that correcting their behavior is not worth their investment. I bet they have a crisis team that has pre-made templates for if any particular part of their dirty laundry might air. It seems like to them that taking a few black eyes is the cost of doing business when you are in the market of collecting and selling people’s data.
For many years I was an e-business consultant for a few big names. My clients were as big or bigger. You wouldn't believe how many companies are passing or storing passwords in plain text, simply because of the overhead involved in passing and maintaining encrypted passwords from one platform to the other. SAP, Unix, Active Directory, Oracle and other directory services use varying encryption hashes. Most often the cheapest solution was passing them in plain text, and at best your directory is storing them encrypted. But often times there was a text file dumping ground with plain text passwords. Having said that, this news isn't shocking at all to me.
Their clientele (mid-life moms) doesn't care, and they don't read the news unless it's on their feed. Myspace fell on its face so quickly because it was being used by teens and 20-somethings, which are the most volatile clientele in the world. Facebook is indestructible at this point. Just like they haven't changed their hair style or yoga pant/button-down-shirt combination, they won't jump off to another social media platform. They may supplement with IG, but never replace.
Zuckerberg needs to be removed from his CEO position.
Fortunately I rarely ever go on FB anymore and I don’t use Instagram.
Fortunately I rarely ever go on FB anymore and I don’t use Instagram.
Dude, the fact that you used the made-up verb <facebooking> tells you, loudly, all there is to know.
