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Re:Tech Layoffs Are Feeding a New Startup Surge on Thursday February 23, 2023 @01:34PM (#34914525)
Who are you to judge? Maybe they needed to support sick kids or parents. Arrogant and ignorant statement.
Re:WhatsApp co-founder tells everyone to delete Facebook on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @11:56PM (#16635316)
Who the hell are you to talk about Trump voters being conned or voting without critical thinking? You have no idea why people voted for him.
Democrats fully controlled Congress during President Obama's first two years in office. During this time he could have easily closed Gitmo, or addressed any of his other campaign promises. Instead we got the ACA, which is currently in its death throes irrespective of Trump.
Re:Police had woman’s Facebook deactivated during standoff on Tuesday August 02, 2016 @11:09PM (#12215302)
Agreed. Especially if you consider that she was originally being served a warrant for a relatively minor offense, which she hadn't even been convicted of.
Re:Instagram's Million Dollar Bug on Thursday December 17, 2015 @09:54PM (#10756319)
Why do the policy specifics matter? A blackhat won't be respecting those rules, and won't need to negotiate a reasonable payday with facebook.

The real issue here is facebook's poor infrastructure security and slow response time. If the exploit had been previously reported, why was the privilege escalation still possible? Why did a (supposedly) known-to-be-vulnerable host have access to secret information at all?

The exfiltration of data may have been unethical, but facebook has no one to blame but themselves for it even being possible.