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Facebook starts testing “Secret Conversations” encryption for Messenger
Submitted by l33tdawg on Tue, 2016-08-02 04:11
Earlier this month, Facebook announced plans to offer end-to-end encryption in Messenger by the end of the summer. Now the company is starting to roll out the new feature, called Secret Conversations, to some people.
Android Police received several screenshots of the new feature, though it doesn’t seem to actually work yet. It’s also unclear if Facebook is only releasing Secret Conversations to beta testers at this point or offering it to some regular users as an A/B test.
Facebook opens up its anti-hacker training tool
Submitted by l33tdawg on Thu, 2016-05-12 05:35
L33tdawg: You can see this in action at #HITB2016AMS and hear from Paul Marinescu, Research Scientist at Facebook about this new CTF platform in the CommSec Track.
Facebook hacker finds another intruder beat him to the punch
Submitted by l33tdawg on Mon, 2016-04-25 15:07
A security researcher looking for flaws in Facebook's internal network has found traces of another intruder who got into the system first.
The hacker, or hackers, had access to Facebook's internal system for several months, giving them access to hundreds of employee usernames and passwords, explained researcher Orange Tsai in a blog post published last week.
Linguists Not Exactly Wow About Facebook’s New Reactions
Submitted by l33tdawg on Mon, 2016-02-29 00:46
When my 4-month-old son is angry he turns bright red. When he finds something funny, he makes an alarming gurgling sound. When something surprises him, he says “Ah!”
You know: Like Facebook.
The introduction of Reactions, a set of five new “graphicons” with assigned textual meanings, probably isn’t supposed to be infantilizing. The social network just wants people to do more than “Like” someone else’s post. The new kids: Love, Sad, Angry, Wow, and Haha.
Facebook is ready to let you express more emotions now
Submitted by l33tdawg on Thu, 2016-02-25 04:40
"We know it's a big change," said Facebook product manager Sammi Krug in an announcement today. That's right—Facebook is taking its relationship with you to the next level. From now on, you'll be allowed to respond to posts with reactions other than the ubiquitous thumbs up emoji that means "like."
Your five options (other than thumbs up) will be emoji that mean "love," "haha," "sad," "angry," and "wow."
The dramatic change has been brewing for the past year, while the company carefully considered which emotions it would allow people to express:
