Re:Facebook Messenger blocks messages containing “di.wang”
by pryce on Monday February 14, 2022 @02:55AM
(#30329391)
My guess is that facebook engineer named 'di wang' of which at least one exists[1] was attempting to ensure the
blocklist functionality worked in production.
Then again, the employee I found is an engineer in the ads department, so blocklist functionality seems unlikely for him to be working on.
[1] see linkedin. I have removed the link to an employees profile who may or may not be relevant and is not a public figure.
Re:Facebook Messenger blocks messages containing “di.wang”
by shadowgovt on Monday February 14, 2022 @06:30AM
(#30330775)
> Then again, the employee I found is an engineer in the ads department, so blocklist functionality seems unlikely for him to be working on
... Unless there's also a blocklist for ads, and someone misconfigured the messenger list to pull that one in also. I've seen similar errors in other companies.
Re:Facebook Messenger blocks messages containing “di.wang”
by toyg on Monday February 14, 2022 @03:08AM
(#30329498)
Or maybe somebody in FB blocklist dev carried out a vendetta against such engineer…
Re:Facebook Messenger blocks messages containing “di.wang”
by NobodyNada on Monday February 14, 2022 @03:51AM
(#30329784)
Could it be some sort of doxxing filter gone wrong, like when Twitter banned the word "Memphis"? https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2021/03/14/twitter-su...
My first guess was that the domain was part of a FB deny list but I don't see why it would. It's still up for grabs https://www.whois.com/whois/di.wang and I can't find any history on https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://di.wang/\\*.
Context is that this is part of an email address and my friend can't send their email anymore.