Facebook 'unintentionally uploaded' 1.5M people's email contacts without consent

Re:Facebook 'unintentionally uploaded' 1.5M people's email c... by Mindwipe on Thursday April 18, 2019 @08:42AM (#19690539)

> I'm not a conspiracy theorist but if you're trying to claim you cannot capture a screenshot from any release meant to be shipped out, either you're crap at release management or are full of shit. Which one is it?

That doesn't strike me as especially unlikely, especially for a specific branch of the app codebase that would likely only operate with a huge number of other co-dependent codebases for backend systems that no longer exist.

With six months to recover code and build a non-live environment with all the dependencies could it be done? Sure. But that's not really within the scope of a journalist request.

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Re:Facebook 'unintentionally uploaded' 1.5M people's email c... by LeifCarrotson on Thursday April 18, 2019 @10:46AM (#19691376)

I would say it should take less than an hour for a dev to get an instance of a specific revision up and running, not months...but I agree with the thrust of your message: when the reporter asked their Facebook representative for a screenshot of the box, they looked in their pictures folder for a screenshot. They probably did not try to spin up an instance for the developer.

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