Posted on 04/03/2021 10:36:07 PM PDT by bitt
Details from more than 500 million Facebook users have been found available on a website for hackers.
The information appears to be several years old, but it is another example of the vast amount of information collected by Facebook and other social media sites, and the limits to how secure that information is.
The availability of the data set was first reported by Business Insider. According to that publication, it has information from 106 countries including phone numbers, Facebook IDs, full names, locations, birthdates, and email addresses.
Facebook has been grappling with data security issues for years. In 2018, the social media giant disabled a feature that allowed users to search for one another via phone number following revelations that the political firm Cambridge Analytica had accessed information on up to 87 million Facebook users without their knowledge or consent.
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America gave it all to Facebook. Fakebook is pure evil.
Excellent!
Serves people right for being stupid!
For the life of me I don’t see why people put certain information on these social media sights, like place of birth, date of birth and the like. Seems people are just begging to have their identities stolen.
This sort of ‘accident’ seems to keep happening every few months with Big Media. “Oops! We did it again!”
There is no real consequence, besides somebody like Lindsey Graham shaking his index finger while sounding ‘outraged!’
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Good thing they take such good care of customer data. I never had a Facebook page.
Fake Book is a great intelligence tool. You can track down someone, find their associates, whereabouts and past history. It can also be used to suppress your information too.
I wish they would tell us where so we can check if our name and number is there
That’s why Facebook is the perfect front for the CIA.
People would never openly tell the CIA their political beliefs, sexual details, family details, etc., but give them a public portal like Facebook and they can’t stop voluntarily spilling all their personal info.
Makes spying on citizens easy!
Truth!
Dump facebook, twitter, google and instagram for starters. Social networks are not only evil, they are dangerous.
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True... they are evil and dangerous, but what are the REAL options?
BTW, You need to add Apple and Microsoft to that list for completeness. They hold as much information on you as the others, depending on your hardware platform.
I never used Twitter or Instagram, and use Facebook messenger and WhatsApp for communications. Google is ubiquitous with its free apps and email. It’s been the company standard for the last half decade for most places.
Regular communications channels (phone and SMS) are extremely expensive and email is just not something most people will use.
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And....
Distributed social media platforms are coming....
a website for hackers
Do they ever get hacked or do they have better security ?.
Leeeeeennnuxxxxxx........
And....
Distributed social media platforms are coming....
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Absolutely love Linux. Absolutely hate open-source.
This again. Linux is worthless for me unless myself and all my clients switch to a Linux workflow. Which will never happen.
When Linux has applications that the rest of the world uses, then Linux will be viable. Sadly, it only draws mostly open-source junk to the desktop.
It’s absolutely solid gold/ AAA on the server/backend. It sucks more that Kamala Harris does on the desktop. Always had, always will. And it’s not the fault of Linux.
My complaint has been ongoing since 1993 when I first used Slackware. Superior operating system. Absolutely garbage open-source applications.
Until a distro of Linux abandons this open-source nonsense, it will always be this way, sadly. And the distro that does will win (had high hopes for Novell/SUSE and Caldera in the past.... )
I won’t even use open-source shovelware on Windows or a Mac. (Two most common asks are GIMP and Blender. Garbage compared to Maya/3DSMAX/Modo and Photoshop/ Substance respectively.
I had to laugh at a TV commentator’s take on FB. We all surf the internet for free and think everything is grand, until we figure out we are the product that is providing the free information.
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