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"Secret" 3G Intel Chip Gives Snoops Backdoor PC Access

vPro processors allow remote access even when computer is turned off

Paul Joseph Watson | Infowars.com | September 26, 2013

http://www.infowars.com/91497/

Intel Core vPro processors contain a "secret" 3G chip that allows remote disabling and backdoor access to any computer even when it is turned off.

Although the technology has actually been around for a while, the attendant privacy concerns are only just being aired. The "secret" 3G chip that Intel added to its processors in 2011 caused little consternation until the NSA spying issue exploded earlier this year as a result of Edward Snowden's revelations.

In a promotional video for the technology, Intel brags that the chips actually offer enhanced security because they don't require computers to be "powered on" and allow problems to be fixed remotely. The promo also highlights the ability for an administrator to shut down PCs remotely "even if the PC is not connected to the network," as well as the ability to bypass hard drive encryption.

"Intel actually embedded the 3G radio chip in order to enable its Anti Theft 3.0 technology. And since that technology is found on every Core i3/i5/i7 CPU after Sandy Bridge, that means a lot of CPUs, not just new vPro, might have a secret 3G connection nobody knew about until now,"reports Softpedia.

Jeff Marek, director of business client engineering for Intel, acknowledged that the company's Sandy Bridge" microprocessor, which was released in 2011, had "the ability to remotely kill and restore a lost or stolen PC via 3G."

"Core vPro processors contain a second physical processor embedded within the main processor which has it's own operating system embedded on the chip itself," writes Jim Stone. "As long as the power supply is available and and in working condition, it can be woken up by the Core vPro processor, which runs on the system's phantom power and is able to quietly turn individual hardware components on and access anything on them."

Although the technology is being promoted as a convenient way for IT experts to troubleshoot PC issues remotely, it also allows hackers or NSA snoops to view the entire contents of somebody's hard drive, even when the power is off and the computer is not connected to a wi-fi network.

It also allows third parties to remotely disable any computer via the "secret" 3G chip that is built into Intel's Sandy Bridge processors. Webcams could also be remotely accessed.

"This combination of hardware from Intel enables vPro access ports which operate independently of normal user operations," reports TG Daily. "These include out-of-band communications (communications that exist outside of the scope of anything the machine might be doing through an OS or hypervisor), monitoring and altering of incoming and outgoing network traffic. In short, it operates covertly and snoops and potentially manipulates data."

Not only does this represent a privacy nightmare, it also dramatically increases the risk of industrial espionage.

The ability for third parties to have remote 3G access to PCs would also allow unwanted content to be placed on somebody's hard drive, making it easier for intelligence agencies and corrupt law enforcement bodies to frame people.

"The bottom line? The Core vPro processor is the end of any pretend privacy," writes Stone. "If you think encryption, Norton, or anything else is going to ensure your privacy, including never hooking up to the web at all, think again. There is now more than just a ghost in the machine."

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I thought FB was 18+ so minors shouldn't be on it anyways.

No.

...permanently deleted with no option for recovery...

I don't know if they actually ever remove the info from their DBs but nominally, they "delete it" in that you can't get it back. I deleted my FB account and I disappeared from all my friends' lists.

because for teenage boys shooting things and blowing stuff up is a lot more fun over the long hall

For the long hall, you'll need to haul the sniper rifle with you. For the short hall, a shotgun or assault rifle will do.

Speaking as someone who was a teenaged boy when Myst came out, I can honestly say no game interested me less than it did. I saw demos of it at the video game stores, and all the clerks would gush over it being amazing, groundbreaking, etc. I'd nod my head, say "okay dude, yeah, do you even know what you're talking about?" and go home to play Ultima VII. To me it looked like the Sierra * Quest games without the things that made those games fun.

The game that I believe was the most influential from that period in time was Wolfenstein 3D, which was the seminal FPS game in my opinion. As a shareware game, it reached an audience of "anyone who had a modem and the number of a BBS with a halfway-decent files section." It was over the top, just a bit camp, and a thousand percent fun. You can even play it on Facebook now. I got banned from my high school computer network for installing Wolf3D on the server. A teacher walked in and our entire Turbo Pascal class was slaying Nazis. My only defense was that it was more useful than learning Pascal. They were not amused.

I agree with the parent poster that the attributes of FPS games are very alluring to teenaged boys, but I wouldn't necessarily consider that a bad thing (or a good thing, either). It is what it is.

Check out https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/tao-the-power-of-the-graph/10151525983993920

To answer your question, you would basically ask TAO for all objects which are connected to the object that represents you by the "friend" association.

TAO would then do whatever database queries are necessary to get what it doesn't already have in cache, cache the results, and return them to you.

I haven't posted here in years, partly because I've been too focused on my music career.

First off (-topic), fuck Cubase, Ableton is waaaay better and just as easily pirated. And while on the subject of piracy, musicians spend more money on music (shows, instruments, hardware, etc) than anyone else, all while actively giving back to the music community by producing art; if they pirate music software, I say good as long as they can't afford it, because it at least allows them to create their art, which is good for everybody. I haven't paid for my copy of Ableton yet, but I definitely plan on it once I can.

Now regarding primary points of the article. Say what you want, but making beautiful expressive music is extremely difficult in a digital environment. Sure you can correct your mistakes, layer a dozen parts by yourself, and accomplish musical feats with the press of a button that, e.g., concert pianists might spend their whole life practicing to achieve, but none of that has to do with the artistic side of music. What the author really means is that humans no longer have to spend years practicing fine muscle coordination to be able to create complex music, but that doesn't free the musician of the burden of turning sound into art with real expression behind it.

This is why a lot of electronic music sounds stale and repetitive. If you don't know, there exist "construction kits" which allow me to create, e.g., an above average trap song in about an hour (including mastering). A lot of people do this, but a lot fewer go--or even know to go---to the trouble of creating real expressive content so that the music is not only aurally pleasing and cerebrally interesting, but also emotionally evocative. Evocativeness used to be a given in music, but these days it has to be sought out. That said, all the best producers reliably achieve it, even in the digital space, which can add challenges since expression is fundamentally an analog creature.

What's true is there's a lot more noise around the signal. This can make it a lot harder for good musicians to succeed, but most of the doom-and-gloom perspective comes from the masses of shitty musicians who've entered the market now that the barriers to entry are lowered: Talent still rises to the top, but all these n00bs who create digitally perfect tracks that sound like music are whining en mass that no one listens to their songs and that it must the system's fault because their tracks sound good. People don't listen to music because it "sounds good", they listen to it because it's art, i.e. it has content and is moving. Everything else is just icing on the cake, but who wants to eat just icing all the time.

I don't need to be a rock star to be a satisfied musician. That said, if you don't believe there exist rock stars and legends these days, clearly you've never been to a Bassnectar concert or are otherwise not paying attention.

In case you're interested:

https://soundcloud.com/mdmtmusic

https://soundcloud.com/mdmt-development

https://www.facebook.com/MDMTmusic

And if you're in the Denver area, we're playing at Cervantes on Sept 29th.

Texas is trying to convince Space-X to build a launch facility near Brownsville, TX. Someone may have forgotten that Elon Musk runs both Space-X and Tesla.

Karma is a BITCH!

Texas is trying to convince Space-X to build a launch facility near Brownsville, TX. Someone may have forgotten that Elon Musk runs both Space-X and Tesla.

Wuh!? The Hell you say. Y'all tellin' me this Yankee runs both those companies? Until that fella gets his mind right and picks one or the other, there's goin' to be a real serious conniption fit if this don't get fixed right quick.

Texas is trying to convince Space-X to build a launch facility near Brownsville, TX. Someone may have forgotten that Elon Musk runs both Space-X and Tesla.

Well, look at it properly, the bug is about optimization of a query that does not make much sense. Sure, it could be done better, but why would you issue such query at all.

If you look at problems that Oracle/MySQL engineering tackled, they are somewhat different - data compression, online DDL, parallel replication, GTIDs, InnoDB scalability, etc - these were huge efforts and get reasonable focus. Think of all the bugs that were not filed against MariaDB... :)

Count InnoDB engineers working for Oracle and for Maria, unfortunately that will not be balanced. Even Percona's InnoDB expert Yasufumi Kinoshita ended up working for Oracle lately.

Sure, Maria can do all sorts of tricks in SQL-land, but it is not the full picture. Oracle has much more engineering power dedicated to supporting MySQL, and they also have customers who are doing bug escalations as well.

Disclaimer: I used to work at MySQL AB and currently am working on a deployment that builds upon Oracle's MySQL tree, see https://www.facebook.com/MySQLatFacebook

Switching providers or to the competition is a fallacy since most places don't have any competition anymore thanks for franchise agreements, or at best a duopoly especially in the US. To REALLY "switch" people have to be willing and able to move and to invest in places that do have good broadband infrastructure and to ignore and economically affect those that do not. Supporting municipal networks, Google Fiber, and Sonic type projects and stop giving money to providers who cap. Aside from that property values, business investment, even tax dollars. These are now our weapons. The US is lucky enough to still have a private sector and local govts who have the means to build alternative networks. This is a luxury that many other countries like Canada do not. Support it and nurture it. Do not let these bastards win.

Others in the fight.
http://stopthecap.com/
http://www.muninetworks.org/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/186439608067383/ - Stop AT&T from capping, a FB group though no action is really happening. It's just a place to meet other like-minded folks

No contact details could be found for either the owner, or the observatory, but at least here is their Facebook page: linkie

from TFA

The advisory also warns networks to be on the lookout for attacks, and that anyone found to be aiding the SEA will be seen as terrorists actively aiding attacks against the U.S. websites.

i'm no friend of the SEA (or the sea) but if you read the actually advisory then you likely noticed that neither "terrorism" or "terrorist" is anywhere in the advisory.
since he's written a flat out lie under the guise of fact, i think people should inform him of the error of his ways.

his facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/ryanwneal
his twitter feed: https://twitter.com/ryanWneal

feel free to mod up +1 pwn4g3

Well there is such a thing as a unilateral agreement such as "This is a final binding agreement and supersedes all others..."
It's a weasel clause and invalidates your premise because you agreed to their terms when you signed up or keep a profile/account. It also keeps them in complete control of the agreement unless it's superseded by any local laws that may override what they put in there.

And if we look at Facebook's Terms Here: https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms

We find under Section 19 Other.

2. This Statement makes up the entire agreement between the parties regarding Facebook, and supersedes any prior agreements.

And then there's the old special weasel clauses about invalidation and your rights.

3. If any portion of this Statement is found to be unenforceable, the remaining portion will remain in full force and effect.
4. If we fail to enforce any of this Statement, it will not be considered a waiver.
5. Any amendment to or waiver of this Statement must be made in writing and signed by us.

Typical for a unilateral agreement and any lawyer worth their salt won't let an online service company not have these kinds of things in their ToS, meaning you're fucked. If you don't agree, don't use it, you have no rights other than to use their services, they way they say you can as defined under terms and conditions that they can change, when they want and how they want.

So what is your opinion on the changes proposed by the new Facebook Data Policy?
Oh that's right, you can't read it.

Not really...
If you actually read his report, there is nothing to it ,beyond what is in the title of this summary.

http://khalil-sh.blogspot.ru/p/facebook_16.html

The reproduction steps are entirely gone, there is nothing there for a Dev to go in and investigate with.

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repro:
the vulnerability allow's facebook users to share posts to non friends facebook users , i made a post to sarah.goodin timeline and i got success post
link - > https://www.facebook.com/10151857333098885
of course you may cant see the link because sarah's timeline friends posts shares only with her friends , you need to be a friend of her to see that post or you can use your own authority .
this is a picture shows that post :
https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/q71/s720x720/999429_10151857336258885_2061448780_n.jpg

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Not trying to play devil's advocate here but any vulnerability researcher must understand that finding flaws is only half of the job. You must also be able to successfully explain and make understand each flaw to even non-technical people or your work is somewhat worthless.

Now it's true that one can expect a reasonable technical skill from the Facebook person reviewing your bug submissions, but they also, as they stated, go through a lot of invalid and spurious submissions a day.

So in case you are hoping for a reward, you better make your submission as clear as possible before going mad and go public. Also you should at least retry and send additional details before giving up on them (reports do not mention whether the researcher "repeatedly" tried to explain the vuln to them.

IMHO the lack of patience from the researcher illustrates he really does not care about making Facebook (or anything) more secure. Only money drives him. This is perfectly acceptable but no quite the image for raising money as if he were a true whitehat.

Since when does two days ago equal ages? https://www.facebook.com/wikileaks/posts/561927090509074. Its not a publicity stunt it just what it says it is insurance against Assange Snowden Greenwald Poitras etc being killed or disappeared to gitmo.

What is amazing (to me, anyway) is that these links are posted on facebook. Everyone who downloads these torrents will be registered. If they have facebook accounts, their names, birthdate, etc. will all be known. WTF?

Why facebook, of all places?

A publicity stunt. If WikiLeaks had the files, they would have gone public the next with as many as they could vet, and they wouldn't have been as responsible or through as the guardian. Also the timing on that is wrong, they posted that file ages ago.

Since when does two days ago equal ages? https://www.facebook.com/wikileaks/posts/561927090509074. Its not a publicity stunt it just what it says it is insurance against Assange Snowden Greenwald Poitras etc being killed or disappeared to gitmo. If the US tries anything the key gets released and the stuff they have kept back because it is to dangerous inflammatory get published to the world. Could it be a bluff yes, is it likely not a bluff if you read the even the docs that have been released have been voluntarily redacted by Greenwald and co. Its You screw us we screw you worse device.

Several of my friends take part in this: https://www.facebook.com/ratedmformarathon.

If I weren't in New York I would attend every event.

It trades one addiction for others: religion, caffeine, and nicotine.
It trades personal responsibility for not drinking, and thus drinking, to an imaginary higher power.

There is an athiest/agnostic sub-group of AA, but judging by things found on their FB page, they are having an uphill battle with the powers-that-be in AA.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Agnostics-and-Atheists-in-AA/168374259840358

http://www.aa-atheists.com/

This is quite an ingenious attack, but I am very surprised it has taken people so long to find it, as it is very straightforward and easy to understand conceptually. Makes you wonder "how did I not think of that".

Although it may seem like the requirements of a successful attack are difficult to achieve, this may not be the case.
It is usually very easy to inject some plain-text in the source code of webpages.

On facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php/INJECT_WHATEVER_YOU_WANT_HERE/
If you view the source of that URL you can see the text "INJECT_WHATEVER_YOU_WANT_HERE" appears 3 times in the source code.
By appending the query string, on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLkugwOYbFw&INJECT_WHATEVER_YOU_WANT_HERE
And on google:
https://www.google.com/?INJECT_WHATEVER_YOU_WANT_HERE

That means that an attacker can extract secret information from a lot of the HTTPS pages that you're visiting.

When I first read about this attack, the first fix that came into my mind was to just append /* [random text of random size] */ to all text/html responses.
  But this may cause troubles: if the random padding is too large, the purpose of compression
is defeated. If it is too small, workarounds may be found.

Maybe it is time to start thinking of algorithms that perform compression and encryption together, not separately?

https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2010/02/02/hiphop-for-php--move-fast/

The police didn't intercept her Google searches.
She posted pictures of M-66 explosives publicly on her Facebook account.

Google Plus posting on the topic
The facebook photo in question

As for monogomy, research among cultures around the world do show a consistent view that is "mostly" monogamous. Ie, serial monogamy with occasional cheating on the sly. That's universal.

Monogamy is almost universal among agricultural societies where property and patrimony play an important role. It is also crucial in patriarchates without social welfare where women can't support themselves if not married. (However, even in agricultural societes monogamy is relatively new. The old testament still contains many norms regulating polygamous live.)

Monogomy however is the exception for pure hunter gatherer societies today, Humans lived in societies like that for most of their history. Promiscous societies are rare now because hunter gatherer societies are rare.

Modern industrialized welfare stares remove most of the presurres that resulted in the adoption of monogamy. People start realizing this. As a result polyamory and other open lifestyles are on the rise.

Citations:
https://www.facebook.com/sexatdawn
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyamory
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex-positive_movement

Here is a citation that claims the opposite:
https://www.facebook.com/sexatdawn

Congress rejected this bill "very narrowly" (205-217) with 12 abstains. They split themselves into good cops and bad cops almost evenly. How convenient...

Something tells me this was carefully staged political reality show intended to convince people that they still have "some choice", yet it "didn't work out this time". Which is a big lie. They were all complicit in keeping NSA money flowing, they just chose among themselves who will act "good guy" and who will be "bad guy" in this episode.

Once again, there is no functioning democracy in the US these days. US government has gone full retard with spying everyone everywhere, setting up inconvenient folks and even killing inconvenient journalists with enough audacity to warn others that it can happen to them (at least this is how I interpret Richard Clarke's statement).

Your government chose to do bad, bad things that happen to be profitable for them and as their misconducts are becoming more and more blatant, they chose more and more opressions instead of less wrongdoings. Don't expect things to improve anytime soon, it's propably too late.

The name reminds me of groups like the People's Front of Judea

The problem is that PHP and web programmers are quite common. Even so, places like Facebook are looking for PHP developers and SQL engineers. Trying to find decent C programmers, especially those capable of working on embedded systems or the Linux kernel or device drivers are much harder to find. As for college, good luck getting started in the industry without a degree unless you've managed to make a name for yourself without it on some well known project.

For example:

(Facebook) https://www.facebook.com/careers/search?q=&location=menlo-park
(Google) https://www.google.com/about/jobs/search/
(Apple) http://www.apple.com/jobs/us/corporate.html
(Tesla) http://tbe.taleo.net/CH07/ats/careers/jobSearch.jsp?org=TESLA&cws=1
(Cavium) http://www.cavium.com/careers.html
(Amazon Lab 126) http://www.lab126.com/careers.htm
(Yahoo) http://us.careers.yahoo.com/
(Xilinx) https://xapps9.xilinx.com/OA_HTML/RF.jsp?function_id=12325&resp_id=23350&resp_appl_id=800&security_group_id=0&lang_code=US&params=mCsTre-AToe2wnIXflPtqsZZTnVM9.N1OyhNnBv5KuqbLKT.chxR3de6DRGMEkZb&oas=suuh5UdozJuyoXGEIHQclw..
(Altera) http://ch.tbe.taleo.net/CH03/ats/careers/jobSearch.jsp?org=ALTERA&cws=1
(Intel) http://jobs.intel.com/
(Qualcomm) https://jobs.qualcomm.com/public/jobSearch.xhtml#messages

I am certainly not lying nor a shill. These are just off the top of my head. Many of these sites have pages of openings as well as openings for new college graduates.

I thought Facebook was already premium. In order to skip the friend request CAPTCHA, post videos, add a page, or even to log in to your account after a while, you have to verify your account, which requires having a unique mobile phone number. A house phone won't work if you share this phone with another Facebook user in your household, and a lot of house phone carriers can't receive texts anyway.

I better concept would be to pay a monthly $100 to who ever can get a drone to photograph them doing the most outlandish stunt. Naked Keg stands for instance would be right up there. Or dress a group in Red Ski Jackets and on a snow covered field flash mob spelling out "We See You Too"

Of course we need to convince the NSA to share the photos, maybe they should up load to http://facebook.com/iSPYONEVERYONE

And why he avoids youtube

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=xDj7gvc_dsA&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DxDj7gvc_dsA

I noticed on their Facebook page that UCSD provided the resources: "Company Overview The walkingtools laboratory is a small Android shop at UCSD" https://www.facebook.com/GunGeoMarker/info I bet they have deeper pockets than this guy.

Is it suitable for a gigantic website like Facebook?

Yes. Facebook is actually implemented in PHP. At one point they used a compiler to compile PHP directly to machine code. Today they have an alternative to Zend called the HipHop Virtual Machine (HHVM.)

Here is the page. It's hard for me to understand why the state department even cares if people visit their page or not.

The page you linked to currently has 281,000 'likes.' So at a budget of $630,000, each 'like' cost more than $2. Wow.

Here is the page. It's hard for me to understand why the state department even cares if people visit their page or not.

Social media cuts both ways. The military took control of State TV (as in all coups), closed the three pro-Morsi TV Stations (arresting some journalists in the process) but could not take both the Twitter and the Facebook official accounts from the reluctant future deposed president.

The next post will contain verbatim of the deposed president probable last communication via an official channel: the "Office of Assistant to President of Egypt on Foreign Relations" Facebook account.

Here is the link to the communicate for those who still have a FB account.

Below is the full text for analysis and comment.

You might not think it is worth doing things like https://www.facebook.com/, http://slashdot.org/, or http://www.amazon.com/ (to pick three well known examples of web applications). But some of us care about usefulness and/or getting paid.

If you're talking about Facebook, create your own Facebook page with your clear portrait profile photo, 'friend' your friends and family, update your work history, so they know it's you and not the other person. Be sure you create an unique non-ambiguous Facebook URL, like mine: https://www.facebook.com/Craig.A.Lance

If it's your own website, put your own portrait photo up; add the same e-mail address that you use to send resumés out with.

Personally, I choose to place the following in my "About Me" section of Facebook:
"To prospective employers: This is my personal wall and has absolutely no reflection on how I perform my job.
Shame on you for peeking.
Now, get back to work evaluating me as a future employee, please."

It also ups the ante in the arms race of evolution, which isn't universally seen as a good thing.

It certainty is a bad thing, which is why millions of people protested conventional breeding when late blight overcame the conventionally bred resistances in tomato and when hessian flies overcame conventionally bred resistance in wheat. Oh wait, that never happened because it would be absolutely idiotic, yet somehow, when genetic engineering is involved, the same basic facts of population genetics are suddenly terrible and proof that the technique itself is bad. Perhaps it is because the vast vast majority of the opposition to genetic engineering is coming from those with no background in agricultural or plant science and thus due to their complete lack of context it seems reasonable to them.

Calling objection "hysteria" doesn't make it so. Some protesters are quite enlightened and think long term.

And most of the protesters are the agricultural equivalents to the anti-vaccine movement. And when you are doing little in the way of scientifically justifying your concerns, instead preferring to use bunk science, fearmongering, and outright vandalism on non-corporate projects and farmer's fields, you shouldn't be surprised when you get characterized poorly. Hell, there is no small opposition to even things like Golden Rice (biofortified with -carotene) and the Arctic apple (which does not oxidize when cut). I'm sure there is a perfectly good reason as to why that is, if not unscientific hysteria, because this stuff isn't looking good.

Just about everything carries risk (again for context, even conventional breeding conventional breeding carries risk), just about everything has some negatives that come with the positives, there are actual issues, and not every genetically engineered organisms will necessarily turn out to be a good thing. But to paint the anti-GMO movement as a whole as anything even remotely reasonable would be like saying young earth creationists simply have a dispute with the minor details of a few phylogenies.

Looks like it is here: https://maps.google.com/maps?q=5.875429,73.343647&ll=5.883369,73.343396&spn=0.037524,0.066047&num=1&t=h&z=15
Based off images from here:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=258146087538513
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=258146094205179

Looks like it is here: https://maps.google.com/maps?q=5.875429,73.343647&ll=5.883369,73.343396&spn=0.037524,0.066047&num=1&t=h&z=15
Based off images from here:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=258146087538513
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=258146094205179

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/search/
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/post/

Maybe they just replaced it with something better? Maybe learn how to use google for even a single moment? I don't recall facebook ever promising to me that they would meet my every data need if I signed up for their free ad-supported service.

Maybe build a tron canoe to ride on your river of digital tears?

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/search/
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/post/

Maybe they just replaced it with something better? Maybe learn how to use google for even a single moment? I don't recall facebook ever promising to me that they would meet my every data need if I signed up for their free ad-supported service.

Maybe build a tron canoe to ride on your river of digital tears?

The link is here in your settings: https://www.facebook.com/settings

Link is at the bottom... "Download a copy of your Facebook data."

-- Dave

You have to ask for permission:

"2.You will not collect users' content or information, or otherwise access Facebook, using automated means (such as harvesting bots, robots, spiders, or scrapers) without our prior permission."

https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms

The feature has NOT been removed. It is right here:

https://www.facebook.com/settings

Simply click "Download a copy of your Facebook data."

I have started this page. Please like it, post it, and encourage people to sound off against the making of a Blade Runner sequel.
Thanks!
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I have started this page. Please like it, post it, and encourage people to sound off against the making of a Blade Runner sequel.
Thanks!
https://www.facebook.com/StopBladeRunnerSequel [facebook.com]

I have started this page. Please like it, post it, and encourage people to sound off against the making of a Blade Runner sequel.
Thanks!
https://www.facebook.com/StopBladeRunnerSequel [facebook.com]