Facebook Uncovers 'Security Issue' Affecting Nearly 50 Million Accounts

[CarpalMac]

Facebook is the worst thing ever. It destroyed the society and made people dumb.

It's also killed off a lot of active forum communities which is a travesty, we just haven't realised that yet.

How many times have you done an internet search about an issue you were having with your car or something at home, and you've gone on to find a forum where somebody has had the same thing and then there's been helpful responses with details, answer and photo walkthroughs etc?

Car forums like PistonHeads and Scoobynet have been invaluable for me over the years however since Facebook chat groups many forums have become ghost towns. Scoobynet and Visordown are all but dead.

I'm almost surprised that this place is still as busy as it is....

 

[vault]

If you're still on Facebook, at this point, it's on you.

This is evil poop. It will discourage 2FA on all platforms.

Hopefully not, but sms based authentication should die out anyway. It's not secure and there are privacy implications. Authenticator app (plus backup codes) is the way to go.

 

[pl1984]

Facebook is the worst thing ever. It destroyed the society and made people dumb.

It didn't make them dumb, they were already dumb. All it did was allow them a large forum from which to share their stupidity with others.
[doublepost=1538169605][/doublepost]Facebook is the antithesis of privacy. The two are at odds. Even if you restrict your privacy to others you cannot restrict it to Facebook itself. If you use Facebook be aware you have zero privacy. Period.

 

[gugy]

Everyone watching television is “only a lurker”, but that doesn’t stop it from braninwashing them.

Who talked about brainwashing?

 

[EdT]

They're just having a pretty crappy year, huh.

No, they are still making a lot of money. Facebook users are having their privacy torn to shreds but thats the price you absolutely must pay to keep in touch with advertisers and hackers.

 

[Wando64]

Who talked about brainwashing?

I have.

 

[SoyCapitanSoyCapitan]

Don’t forget to send nudes to Facebook security team so they can ‘help’ you if anyone posts your nudes without permission. It will help them identify abuse apparently.

 

[C DM]

It didn't make them dumb, they were already dumb. All it did was allow them a large forum from which to share their stupidity with others.
[doublepost=1538169605][/doublepost]Facebook is the antithesis of privacy. The two are at odds. Even if you restrict your privacy to others you cannot restrict it to Facebook itself. If you use Facebook be aware you have zero privacy. Period.

You can basically say that about internet in general, and even prior to it you can say that about all kinds of things as well.

 

[-BigMac-]

HAHAHAH
HAHHAHHAHHAHAH

If youre dumb enough to still have facebook - this is on you. Plenty of other ways and apps to communicate with friends and family.

 

[genovelle]

I just came from my Facebook account and was wondering why I had to log back in. BTW, they did NOT give me a message explaining why. Those lying sacks a flaming poop at FB are the biggest liars and data minors in the world, except for Google...

You know what...I did get logged off earlier with no reason given.

 

[Cigarwreck]

I don’t why I waited so long to de-activate FB —— now in about 14 days, they will “start” the process of deleting my account and finish mining all my data.

 

[gugy]

I have.

Maybe it's brainwashing you.

 

[rafark]

Interesting that I've never seen you post the same kind of response in a Google bashing thread.

Actually, I have. I hate Android but I have no problem using their web services. Google have made the web we know today possible (free and accessible).

So, thanks for backing up the exact point I was making about Facebook getting a free pass, even though you chose to exclude it from your quote of me.

They get a pass because most people know is a trade off they are willing to make. If Facebook weren't free, even by charging $1, people wouldn't be as connected as they are today.

 

[Macaholic868]

I’d like to thank Facebook. My wife didn’t want me to delete my account so she could tag me in photos. I’m done after this and should’ve been three years ago. Bye, bye Mark.

 

[Xowi]

FB has become evil like the GOP

 

[Wando64]

DELETED (because life's too short)

 

[makr]

even more of a reason to delete your Facebook...Get on Gab!

Interesting, never heard of that. Looks like a cross between Twitter and Facebook.

 

[MoreRumors?]

Family & friends on facebook, like really? if they are family & friends they are the easiest to maintain contact with outside of facebook, my god not even for a second think that you need facebook to maintain any kind of social interaction with your closest fellas, it's totally the opposite you are being dragged to a simulated frivolous net. I'd just advice you to leave it entirely, and see for yourself. When you need to maintain contact, try calling or hanging out, I guarantee you it'll be the real deal but if facebook works for you my friend so be it.

I agree with you 100% and I would only call or text my family and friends. I only created a FB to check for news and updates from companies and organizations. I've stopped going into FB because I don't like the way it works.

Dude, this is going to sound harsh, but if that's true it's partially your own fault (regarding the bolded part). There are other non-facebook ways to contact family and friends: Phone call, text messaging, seeing them in real life. You have to make an effort to actually see them.

I quit facebook a few years ago. I make it a point to call my friends and family every so often - at least once per quarter. It's not hard - 5-15 minute long conversations 4x a year is enough to catch up and stay in touch, and it feels a lot realer than facebook ever could.

Indeed I would argue contact on facebook is so superficial that it's not "real" contact. In other words, someone you haven't seen in years but only talk to on facebook is just that - someone you haven't seen in years.

Your tie to facebook to keep in contact with family and friends is completely illusory. Sure, you'll miss out on some conversations that don't matter and some stupid photos, but you won't miss out on anything that matters. You'll only miss out on things that matter if you don't make any effort to communicate with your friends and family in other ways - which is on and on them.

You're right. FB is like a personal "spotlight", "center stage" and a term I've recently heard, FOMO, Fear of missing out. I remember there used to be different prices for telephone service (regional and long distance in U.S.) and cellphone for talk and today it is unlimited and no extra charge for long distance calls.

 

[Shiro_Simba]

Looks like they have to extend the advertising campaign .......

 

[370zulu]

Those of us that had computers in the 80's new immediately what Facebook was all about in its inception into the society. We told them, but nobody listened to us, they say that we were paranoid and antiquate. At the end, we were right!

This exactly! Started in IT/computers around mid 1980's myself. I had one friend that agreed with me that there was something wrong with FB. I've never had an account. All of my family and friends have had one during some point in the past. We kept telling everyone we knew. They said we were crazy. Turns out, we are not.

 

[twistedpixel8]

While I utterly despise FaceBook, I feel like the people crying that a security flaw makes a company awful are completely naive regarding software security.

No software is completely secure. It is almost a literal impossibility. There is no way to cover every single base. Developers do what we can to cover as many bases as possible but once a project becomes so large, every new feature has the possibility to introduce a vulnerability. Testing can become exponential and things get missed.

In summary: FaceBook are ****, 100% agree but developers are only human and make mistakes. It’s not like we do it deliberately.

 

[ipponrg]

I agree with you 100% and I would only call or text my family and friends. I only created a FB to check for news and updates from companies and organizations. I've stopped going into FB because I don't like the way it works.


You're right. FB is like a personal "spotlight", "center stage" and a term I've recently heard, FOMO, Fear of missing out. I remember there used to be different prices for telephone service (regional and long distance in U.S.) and cellphone for talk and today it is unlimited and no extra charge for long distance calls.

Facebook, its predecessor Friendster, Xanga, Myspace, etc all are spotlight-esque apps. I don't know about your circle, but when these webapps first came out, people were trying to accumulate the most "friends" in their circle for bragging rights. To me, it was the earliest sign of social narcissism for some of these people.

Take a look at the "hook model". FOMO is not new at all, it's just now that there is a common language term that is understood by everyone. When you read about the "hook model", you will realize that every company, including Apple, practices this in some form or another. It's how you get people to use/buy your products. Marketing has a huge play in this as well.

As with everything online, people need to be cognizant if it's on the internet, then it's out there.

 

[Mildredop]

That's it, I'm done. Facebook profile permanently deleted.

 

[XW61982]

If that were only possible, but you are naive to think that the average FB user will switch. We techie types would love to, but in this day and age convincing the majority of your family and friends to abandon FB is not going to happen, so we are stuck with FB or with little or no contact with family and friends. That is just the way it is, like it or not. Everyone is used to FB now, and expecting them all to agree to switch to another single platform is so naive as to be laughable. So if you are a loner, then switch if you want to. But if you have a lot of family and friends on FB, you are pretty much stuck with it for now, assuming you want to stay in contact with them.

Actually this lazy way of thinking is what have people trapped into FB... Me and many others I know, communicate with friends and family outside of FB and we do it quite well actually! What happened before FB existed? Nobody talked to each other? It's incredible how people have become addicted to this brainwashing.

 

[Cigarwreck]

Actually this way lazy of thinking is what have people trapped into FB... Me and many others I know, communicate with friends and family outside of FB and we do it quite well actually! What happened before FB existed? Nobody talked to each other? It's incredible how to people have become addicted to this brainwashing.

FB is certainly not going out of business.......... but they are dropping in value rapidly. As their older audience drops, so will they. They don’t have a young clientele.