No way to have this much surveillance on billions of people without some of the information eventually being misused, hacked, leaked, pilfered. Did they access all 50 million or did they go for high-value targets? Who knows? Doesn't matter. The fix is to change the vulnerability.
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During hurricane Florence, local school boards were urging parents to go on Facebook to get emergency information. It has a chokehold on many essential civic and social functions. How are you not going to get emergency information about your child?https://twitter.com/rsv777/status/1045726794475687936 …
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"The social network says its investigation into the breach began on September 16, when it saw an unusual spike in users accessing Facebook." So whomever did this used it at great enough volume to get noticed by Facebook, which operates at a massive scale? https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-security-breach-50-million-accounts/ …
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Why people continue to use facebook, after everything that has been revealed, is a mystery to me.
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Facebook does perform useful functions to lots of people. There are no alternatives yet that are as easy to use, and that outweighs any negatives for a lot (most?) people.
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Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Not just end to end but terminated and reencrypted at each stage, Browser ->web app edge->service layer->store. And preferably with entirely different key domains for each.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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I'd like to offer an alternative 'out' (that FB also won't take): start decentralizing - socially, not technically. I don't think we're really any meaningfully better off after centralizing the world into a few platforms. Let a thousand unconnected communities bloom.
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So many of the problems on the web that we have are based in the sheer scale of modern platforms; moderation, data storage risk, government overreach, and so on. All of it becomes so much harder when you try to be one platform for everybody.
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This week Facebook announced their latest virtual reality system. Zuckerberg's goal is one billion VR users. Facebook collects information about VR users' physical movements, environment, even the dimensions of the room they're in. How can they be trusted to keep this data safe?
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@mollywood and@kairyssdal) that discusses the scary side of VR.https://www.marketplace.org/2018/09/18/tech/make-me-smart-kai-and-molly/82-your-brain-vr …
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