Thousands become millions: Facebook uses Mueller report as smokescreen for Instagram scandal

in #facebook6 years ago

Facebook has been caught stealthily updating a weeks-old blog post regarding password security on Facebook and Instagram, on the same day the Mueller report was released.
The company admitted on March 21 that it had failed to securely store users’ passwords, logging them and storing them unencrypted in plain text. The problem was initially detected as far back as January.

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Why on earth would FB need 20,000 employees? That makes no sense to me. FB is the new age tabloid. Junk junk low quality junk. All the users would be so wise to make the move to Steem.✊

It's not that surprising that Facebook is utterly incompetent...though this might go back to before they bought Instagram...I dunno... This sort of insecure password storage isn't exactly uncommon. If a company is ever able to do password recovery rather than reset, then they're likely storing passwords unencrypted. Thankfully that's a lot less than it was in the past.

Also not exactly surprising they would store people's contacts. To not do so, you're have to trust that they would delete them after having access to them, after constantly hounding you for them all the time to find your "friends".

Books could be written about their poor practices.

When are we going to learn from their mistakes? We are heading to an IoT world and we can't secure passwords of simple things.

Mark Zuckerberg doesn't look human. I guess he have augmented himself slowly with robotic parts until one day he becomes fully robot.

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