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Facebook Uncovers 'Security Issue' Affecting Nearly 50 Million Accounts
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"Facebook says that it is "sorry this happened" and that people's privacy and security "is incredibly important." No one needs to change their passwords, according to Facebook, but those concerned can visit the "Security and Login" section in settings to log out of all devices at once."
Nice.... now FB isn't even safe..
Perhaps all of this coming to social networking accounts more will only further send a stronger message. No one is safe
Nice.... now FB isn't even safe..
Perhaps all of this coming to social networking accounts more will only further send a stronger message. No one is safe
I’m just hear to read all of the comments from the “superior” folks who would never be so low as to even think of having a Facebook account. Congratulations. You’ve won absolutely nothing.
But on Facebook I have the option to ignore all my friends and just have a feed full of poop-posting pages. Can Slack do that?!
(FWIW we do use Slack too, but that’s for proper “issues”. The FB chat is more casual — change shift patterns etc.)
No, but reddit can.
different tools for different jobs.
Not actual work problems, we use Slack for that. Just casual chat, work rotas etc. I know I wasn't too clear and it's not mandatory. Just saying that some people use it.
You spelled “Chinese” wrong. Gab has nothing to do with Russia, and everything to do with freedom of speech.
I'm not sure how it works. However, FB algorithms can now detect a "missing" person from a circle. FB algorithms group people into circles, just like IRL. You have your work circle, church circle, sports circle, college circle, et al. From what I've read (again, I'm not exactly 100% sure) is that FB compares friends circles with other of your friend's circles. Then it starts piecing in information on who you might know and how that person is connected to you. That is the main driving algorithm for "People you may know" which works many times freakishly good; other rare times it's out of sync.
That said, using those same algorithms FB can use the exact same data to determine if someone in your circle isn't connected to FB. If enough of your peers use FB, then FB can easily extrapolate a missing person and start building a shadow profile of what that person's likes/dislikes and possible friend connections are. This is also built from data in your friend's phones. This data is fed from contacts, call logs, text history (not actual content, but like to who and how often). and other identifying information. Dislikes and likes can come from what your friends like and dislike as we humans tends to form social circles around common likes and dislikes.
In turn, when you do create a FB profile, and you have several friends on FB, it turns out, you don't need to do much searching because FB already "preloaded" your friends lists in the "People you may know" tab. Something that when sending new friend requests to that possible list, just confirms the algorithm's effectiveness. This way FB already knows you exist and who you are even though you never have a profile with them. It also means FB can easily slap a face to your profile pic because your contacts might upload a picture. That picture may be of you and your friend, but FB's face detection can help (along with other background algorithms) identify you and connect you with the "shadow profile".
In the end, it doesn't matter if you are not officially on Facebook, you already are. Welcome to digital age.
Here is an article on Gizmodo that goes into more detail: Click Me