Discussion
Ex-Meta worker investigated for downloading 30,000 private Facebook photos
cramsession: I was at a party once with Facebook employees and they were telling stories about how they would spy on who visited who's profiles. They thought it was so funny, they could "tell" who had a crush on who. I deleted my account as soon as I got home. Vile company.
unocard876: someone did something questionable or at least you say they said and that makes the company vile?vile conclusion
cramsession: It was more than one person and yes, it's vile that they had access to this information and a culture of spying (and joking about it). They also said they could tell how long someone was looking at each image. The whole company is basically perverted spyware, which absolutely makes sense if you know how and why it was conceived.
morkalork: Tesla employees talk about recordings of people fucking in cars around the watercooler
unocard876: source: zinedine zidane's shampoo
xgulfie: What is it that Zuck called people who trusted him? Oh right
ryandrake: Wouldn't surprise me. Everyone clutches their pearls and hits the downvote button as soon as you mention the Zucc quote, but has there really been any evidence that the company culture has matured away from "They Trust Me - Dumb fucks"?
livinglist: Are they able to see these data of whichever user whenever they want with no trails at all??
xnx: This would've been an embarrassing security lapse in 2007. In 2024(?) it's despicable.
phyrex: That must have been a long time ago. Nowadays there are a lot of safeguards and that's one of the things that gets you fired right away.
DANmode: Wouldn’t it be nice if the scope of what you witnessed was limited to that one company…
actionfromafar: What other companies have the scope of Meta(-stasis) FB?
DANmode: Google, since you asked.But the point is: Facebook attracts these employees, it doesn’t breed them.
tjpnz: Crooks. The lot of them.
booleandilemma: [delayed]
tjpnz: Dumbfucks
cramsession: It certainly sounded like it, or that no one cared about the trails since they thought it was so hilarious.
dietr1ch: > found Meta to have inadvertently stored certain passwords of social media users on its internal systems without encryption, and fined it €91m (£75m)WTF? I thought that on 2010 already people were diligent enough to avoid even sending the password and instead just hashed it locally before even sending it.
f33d5173: That's never been standard. Passwords in log files is a common issue, crazy you can get fined 8 digits for it.
jnsaff2: Nowadays when you visit someones profile you show up on their suggested friend list. Creepy or cute, a deliberate information leak.
em-bee: viewing someones profile without them knowing is not creepy?
kakacik: I keep reading same statements here for past 10+ years, every time some similar fuckup @fb happens. Every. Single. Time.0 trust in that company, 0 trust in its employees.
hackable_sand: It is creepy, that's what they're saying.
burnt-resistor: Absolutely not. I'm no friend of Zucc, but the graph is protected by a permission system that won't show almost anything for employees without a making a request including legitimate business reason, for a limited time and scope, and managerial approval.
