Re:Facebook says millions had phone numbers, search history ...
by Bartweiss on Monday October 15, 2018 @04:39PM
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Interesting, thanks.
I had only followed general-consumption reports here, and hadn't seen that the attack involved obtaining a token that allowed the attacker to authenticate as the user, and I didn't realize that the API included support for pulling search history data. Given that, I understand much better why this was a disaster from the beginning, and why people are so mistrustful of the rolling "and also this..." disclosures.
I had only followed general-consumption reports here, and hadn't seen that the attack involved obtaining a token that allowed the attacker to authenticate as the user, and I didn't realize that the API included support for pulling search history data. Given that, I understand much better why this was a disaster from the beginning, and why people are so mistrustful of the rolling "and also this..." disclosures.