News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Facebook bug set 14M users' sharing settings to public. Parent comment

Re:Facebook bug set 14M users' sharing settings to public by gkya on Thursday June 07, 2018 @05:50PM (#17260598)
Can E2E encryption not help? It works with WhatsApp or Signal groups, no?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Facebook bug set 14M users' sharing settings to public by willvarfar on Thursday June 07, 2018 @06:45PM (#17261015)
But the app writer, os vendor or dev who wrote a library the app uses can defeat the e2e encryption because they are at the end.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Facebook bug set 14M users' sharing settings to public by Grollicus on Friday June 08, 2018 @05:20AM (#17263811)
The difference being, this needs malicious intent whereas accidentally configuring visibility defaults wrong or accidentally running `update foo set visibility='all'` are just a single small mistake.
[ Parent | on HN ]