Facebook Expects to Be Fined Up to $5B by FTC Over Privacy Issues

Re:Facebook Expects to Be Fined Up to $5B by FTC Over Privac... by UncleMeat on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @07:46PM (#19743645)

Malicious insiders don't need your password to access your data. If you are concerned about malicious insiders then plaintext password logs don't matter.

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Re:Facebook Expects to Be Fined Up to $5B by FTC Over Privac... by beat on Thursday April 25, 2019 @08:59AM (#19747586)

I'm more concerned with plaintext passwords because most people use the same passwords over and over, so if you can break one system, you can break others.

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Re:Facebook Expects to Be Fined Up to $5B by FTC Over Privac... by _jal on Thursday April 25, 2019 @01:06AM (#19745157)

With FB's dataset and employee count, it would be insane not to be concerned with malicious insiders. Even if you completely discount morality and honesty where Facebook is concerned (and I do), there's substantial liability risk, PR risk, regulatory risk and commercial paranoia, which I suspect was likely their biggest concern, at least until recently.

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