@popester said in Facebook Caught Scraping Call and Text Data from Android Users:

@scottalanmiller said in Facebook Caught Scraping Call and Text Data from Android Users:

@popester said in Facebook Caught Scraping Call and Text Data from Android Users:

Wow, the hits keep coming. I feel sorry for all the people that work for facebook if this gets any worse. I did find it strange that I had to remove Ireland from from our block by region firewall list. Totally shut down Facebook. I wonder if they take advantage of the low tax rate somehow by doing that. Hmmm?

Facebook, like nearly all tech companies, have big offices in Dublin. Dublin is the EU's silicon valley.

Maybe its for the Guinness? 🙂

Good a reason as any.

This is not tec news. it belongs in the non-it thread.

Also, a lawsuit against Facebook is pointless. The CA stuff was an exploit that was resolved and CA lied about removing the data they obtained. So sue CA, not FB. FB has no way to know that CA lied about something like that. They have no access to CA servers.

Not saying FB hasn't done other shit worthy of a lawsuit, but not for this instance.

@JaredBusch said in Webroot Blocks Facebook:

I had a ton of false positive hits today from webroot.

That's what I've heard from a few other people.

These kinds of speeds would be great for implementing an iSCSI SAN or FCoE.

I'm surprised they're on 8. It's a really big change from 7.

@Lakshmana Any good suggestions so for ???

send us a screen shot so we can tell you it's just you 😛

@RojoLoco So tempted to change my avatar...

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@DustinB3403 said:

I think the goal of this feature is to bury post that are inappropriate. That Facebook is attempting to filter out content based on user input, rather than everything getting posted to your wall.

Or, more likely IMHO, it is to encourage debate making people spend more time no the site.

Most of those things, like Java for an HP ILO, can be isolated to networks that are not on the Internet or are highly protected. They don't need to be on general use machines.

@Dashrender said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@Dashrender said:

My only complaint is the incessant need to include my location with every post.

You control that.

sure, but its always turning itself back on too.

Mine doesn't. Never had that happen on Windows phone, Android or iOS.

@Dashrender said:

I'm lost, isn't this javascript transmitted over SSL? I'm guessing not, but then the question is why not?

SSL is not allowed in China without a license for it. Even if you use it anyway, my understanding is that it is proxied and intercepted so it doesn't matter. But technically you are not even allowed to use SSL (SSL is a form of VPN which is a controlled access thing in China.)

This is basically a huge scale Lenovo issue and has been pointed to as to why it is considered acceptable by some people for why Lenovo attempted something similar - because they are so used to this type of thing in China that hijacking SSL security seemed natural while in the west it is unthinkable.

@mlnews said:

Watch out, MangoLassi might be the next place you get served with legal filings! NY Supreme Court rules social media as legal delivery mechanism.

I can see this going poorly.
In other news, the doomsday clock moves a few seconds closer to midnight.