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Re:Facebook Expects to Be Fined Up to $5B by FTC Over Privac... by wavefunction on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @11:43PM (#19744779)
how about extracting a user's contacts with their plaintext passwords that would usually be hashed into a database (at least in my professional experience) and thus unusable by facebook?
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Re:Facebook Expects to Be Fined Up to $5B by FTC Over Privac... by _cs2017_ on Thursday April 25, 2019 @03:54AM (#19745952)
You can do many evil things with passwords. But, according to the articles, that's not what happened. They did download contact lists, even though they never used the plaintext passwords they stored in the logs. The users involved in the two incidents were different.
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