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Re:Facebook's Aggressive Moves on Startups Threaten Innovation by wheresmyusern on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @06:50PM (#15554979)
i find it interesting that the possibility of facebook being hacked is almost never discussed -- ive never really seen it held up in these comments. everyone discusses endlessly what might happen if a financial institution, an email service, or something else is hacked. equifax is the latest example. the result of these hacks is the disclosure of tons of personal and sensitive data. so why is it never brought up that facebook, like any other company, might be hacked? since they spy on all their users, they must in some way or another store in an unsafe manner all of the chat logs, pictures, private messages, not to mention the damning meta-data extracted from it. i havent used facebook for almost a decade so perhaps im incorrect in assuming that people say private things in private messages?

there ought to be an alternative

Re:Facebook's Aggressive Moves on Startups Threaten Innovation by zone411 on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @08:53PM (#15555530)
They had a security breach in 2011. Private photos (including Zuckerberg's) were released.
Re:Facebook's Aggressive Moves on Startups Threaten Innovation by willitpamp573 on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @07:50PM (#15555283)
People just assume it won't happen because we assume Facebook has deep security expertise. And we assume Equifax got hacked because they (evidently) didn't.

I don't know whether it's a reasonable assumption or not.