On Facebook

In this recent post, a Facebook employee discloses some of the internal workings of Facebook.
What frightens, but doesn’t surprise me is the fact that they track everything! From logins, profiles you click on, everything you post, like, comment, upload… and even delete. It all goes into 1 big database. This follows the “get-as-much-information-as-you-can” philosophy for social networks nowadays.

Ow and if you’re wondering why Facebook tends to crash a lot, I’m suspecting the 1 server not located in the US (but in London) has something to do with it.

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This entry was posted 7 months and 1 week ago on Monday, January 25th, 2010 at 12:33 pm.

This post is written by Benjamin Surkyn filed under Blurbs, Security.

4 Responses to “On Facebook”.

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    bart posted this response on January 25th, 2010 at 2:24 pm

    I find the fact that they used to have a master password equally frightening… Imagine a facebook employee fed up with it all using that password to change random profiles…

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    Benjamin Surkyn posted this response on January 25th, 2010 at 3:29 pm

    Yes, but it only worked when accessing Facebook from the internal network. Plus now they can still access everything by going directly to the DB.

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    Bart posted this response on January 29th, 2010 at 12:33 pm

    yeah, but since it was accessible from anywhere at the Facebook office it would also be usable by every Tom, Dick and Harry at the office, even those who lack the skills (or DB-rights) to query the data from the DB.

    Plus, he stated that it was only usable from the Facebook-IP, if there was a wireless network present any one who could hack into that could use the password…

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    Benjamin Surkyn posted this response on January 29th, 2010 at 1:41 pm

    But the password was a “secret” so Tom, Dick and Harry didn’t know ;)

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