Facebookery, The Hoovering
Another day, another data thievery revelation at Facebook, Inc. (Nasdaq: FB). It’s time for our national law enforcement agencies to take action and act in the manner they would against any other organized criminal enterprise. Raid the corporate headquarters, arrest, detain, interrogate and incarcerate the C-level personnel (including recently separated personnel) and prosecute. Then there’s this well crafted explanaotry post at The Hacker News providing another take on the company’s criminal behaviors…
‘An anonymous security researcher, who sports the handle e-sushi on Twitter, first noticed that the company was asking some new users to enter their email passwords to verify their identities, a deeply anti-security request even on its own. Business Insider then spotted that if you did this a dialogue box popped up warning you – with no chance to cancel, pause or opt out – that it was importing all your contacts.’ – via John Oates reporting for El Reg
*** This is a Security Bloggers Network syndicated blog from Infosecurity.US authored by Marc Handelman. Read the original post at: https://www.infosecurity.us/blog/2019/4/19/facebookery-the-hoovering
