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Re:Facebook to fight Belgian ban on tracking users, and even... by piokoch on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @10:27AM (#19501075)
I don't know to what extent the movie "Social Network" is based on facts, but if it is a true picture of Mark Zuckerberg, then that's what is happening is not a surprise. He cheated guys who employed him (to create social network), then he cheated his best friend (from what that remember they all sued him and he had to pay them undisclosed amount of money).

What can we expect from someone who looks like someone very greedy without any sense of morals? We should be rather happy he didn't become mass murderer or politician.

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Re:Facebook to fight Belgian ban on tracking users, and even... by mattkevan on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @11:17AM (#19501699)
He also had zero compunction hacking the email accounts of Harvard student newspaper journalists back in the day [0]. Is it any surprise Facebook is what it is today?

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/how-mark-zuckerberg-hacked-i...

Interestingly, he did it by recording failed sign-in attempts, seeing if any of the journalists appeared in the logs, then trying the passwords out on their email accounts.

Maybe Facebook's recently-announced log of 600m+ passwords was a feature not a bug...

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Re:Facebook to fight Belgian ban on tracking users, and even... by saluki on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @11:40AM (#19501997)
y, the social network is a great movie. Even if it isn't 100% accurate it's an amazing story and fun to watch.

The recording failed sign ins to harvest the journalist's passwords always intrigued me. It does make you think when you see they are recently logging passwords.

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Re:Facebook to fight Belgian ban on tracking users, and even... by Taylor_OD on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @11:14AM (#19501641)
> We should be rather happy he didn't become mass murderer or politician.

Yet... I don't think a presidential campaign is out of the question for Zuck at some point in the future.

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Re:Facebook to fight Belgian ban on tracking users, and even... by JadeNB on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @05:41PM (#19506362)
> I don't know to what extent the movie "Social Network" is based on facts, but if it is a true picture of Mark Zuckerberg, then that's what is happening is not a surprise.

If your only information to support your post is a fictionalised movie, then maybe it's appropriate to wait to make your post until you can gather more information.

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