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Re:Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency: Privacy and stability co... by buboard on Monday June 17, 2019 @06:27PM (#20207967)
you 'll notice in that article that it wasn't facebook's servers that were breached. Also facebook has probably way more accounts than humans, i think just recently they deleted 3 billion fake ones. Regardless, imho from many years working with their platform, they do take security seriously and they ve helped to popularize methods for securing accounts and passwords.
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Re:Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency: Privacy and stability co... by root_axis on Monday June 17, 2019 @07:21PM (#20208278)
> you 'll notice in that article that it wasn't facebook's servers that were breached

A distinction without a difference. If Facebook's security policy permits PII to be moved into insecure systems then Facebook itself is insecure.

Here's another:

https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-uploaded-1-5-millio...

Yeah. 1.5 million, who cares right? No big deal. This is clearly a pattern, not an isolated incident.

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Re:Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency: Privacy and stability co... by buboard on Monday June 17, 2019 @09:37PM (#20209087)
this is a privacy issue, but their security is still pretty good, relative to the staggering size of the users and data they hold.
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Re:Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency: Privacy and stability co... by root_axis on Monday June 17, 2019 @10:00PM (#20209182)
> still pretty good, relative to the staggering size of the users and data they hold.

Hundreds of millions of exposed users is not "pretty good", it's objectively horrible.

> this is a privacy issue

It is a privacy issue but primarily a security issue since the scandal is that the data was unintentionally leaked, not that it was shared with a 3rd party.

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Re:Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency: Privacy and stability co... by grey-area on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @12:52AM (#20209885)
Regardless, imho from many years working with their platform

It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.

Upton Sinclair

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Re:Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency: Privacy and stability co... by buboard on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @08:04AM (#20212081)
nah i wish that was the case
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