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Deep Jive Interests » Facebook Hacked! (Or Rather, The Door Was Left Unlocked)

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Update 0030h: Well, that was quick. Barker Bree of Facebook has left a comment which explains the leak. It turns out that it was the result of “single bug on a server” that exposed the code to a “small number of users” that was

While my code gently weeps

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There are an awful lot of people following what I\’d call (hat tip to Travis for this phrasing) "solution oriented development - by which I mean, "keep pounding on the code until it works". That's fine for smal

PHP Did Not Cause Facebook Code Leakage

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Facebook experienced a technical glitch over the weekend. The nature of the glitch was that the source code for the Facebook homepage was displayed instead of the result of the execution of that source code. Widespread news of the

Protecting Your PHP Source Code

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Time for a Sunday morning nerd out.  If you are a programmer or entrepreneur in a company that develops in PHP watch in horror as the main Facebook source code is released into the wild.  Of course, this could be a hoax, as severa

Server Misconfiguration Exposes Tiny Amount of Facebook Source Code

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Via TechCrunch -We just received a tip that the source code for the Facebook main index page has been leaked and published on a blog called Facebook Secrets. There are at least two possible ways that the source code got out - the

Social Network Security Update

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If you are worried about your privacy then you might want to consider unplugging from Facebook for now.  It appears that the hackers are gunning for them right now.  Perhaps this is because the DEF CON Hacker conference that was j

I finished my MBA on Tuesday.

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For those unfamiliar with this blog, I started it about a year ago, mid-way through my MBA at Johns Hopkins University. What started as the IntelliGrad blog, switched to Leveraging Ideas when covering the cross section of technolo

Facebook Source Code Inadvertently Leaked

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Someone posted the PHP source code of Facebook’s home page on a new and otherwise empty blog called Facebook Secrets.
While there is no way to confirm the authenticity of this code, Facebook’s Brandee Barker commented on Nic Cubr

How Much Do You Peel Back the Onion?

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Blogging by its very nature is a personal activity.
For little or no pay, you spend hours providing personal insight for the benefit of others, often putting this insight into perspective/content by revealing information about you

Security breach: Facebook index.php source code leaked

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Facebook is one of the famous web 2.0 portal, its php source code was leaked on the Internet. This blog post has posted index.php home page source code. According to facebook:
Some of Facebook’s source code was exposed to a small

Techcrunch

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Facebook Launches Facebook Platform; They are the Anti-MySpace

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Facebook is holding a massive press/developer event today in San Francisco to officially launch Facebook Platform. 750 or so people are here.
A

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Facebook Source Code Leaked

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We just received a tip that the source code for the Facebook main index page has been leaked and published on a blog called Facebook Secrets. There are only two possible ways that the source code got out - the first is that a Face

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Ooma Launches Free Consumer Phone Service

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An ambitious and long awaited new consumer VOIP startup - Ooma - launches on Thursday morning. Much like Vonage and the ill-fated SunRocket, Ooma allows consumers to use their normal phones to make and receive telephone calls, but

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Engadget Knocks $4 billion off Apple Market Cap on Bogus iPhone email

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What a day for Apple investors. The stock started off strong today on a lot of pre-market buying, despite news that Amazon will finally

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