Re:Facebook Wanted Gizmodo to Kill Investigative Tool
by jeromegv on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @02:16PM
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Looks like you didn't read the article.
The tool was changed to redirect users to a Facebook sign-in page to log in, which is the proper way to sign in. They just found another reason to deny them access after.
It's also not collecting or centralizing data, this is just for the user that uses the tool to learn more about the tool, nothing is sent to Gizmodo.
Re:Facebook Wanted Gizmodo to Kill Investigative Tool
by aylmao on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @02:30PM
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Gotcha. After looking through the source on Github I'm more at ease. One always has to be skeptical about things that involve authenticating to important accounts.
Re:Facebook Wanted Gizmodo to Kill Investigative Tool
by mrgoldenbrown on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @02:22PM
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Can you explain where in the article you read about a crawler, or how Gizmodo would be getting any of the information gained via the app? The app in question isn't a crawler, and the information is stored on the client side, never touching Gizmodo servers.
> Facebook is free to leech your phone of every last bit of personal data... but heavens forbid an end user or journalist tries to learn something about Facebook.
I'd argue the risk isn't that a journalist is learning about Facebook, but rather that it has access to all of the users information and username/password.