Facebook Master Password Was "Chuck Norris"

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday January 21, 2010 @07:56AM from the ad-nauseum-roundhouse dept.

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "A Facebook employee has given a tell-all interview with some very interesting things about Facebook's internals. Especially interesting are all the things relating to Facebook privacy. Basically, you don't have any. Nearly everything you've ever done on the site is recorded into a database. While they fire employees for snooping, more than a few have done it. There's an internal system to let them log into anyone's profile, though they have to be able to defend their reason for doing so. And they used to have a master password that could log into any Facebook profile: 'Chuck Norris.' Bruce Schneier might be jealous of that one."

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Reason #2378238 not to be on Facebook by Anonymous Coward · 2010-01-21 08:01 · Score: 5, Insightful

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Re:There's funny... by coastal984 · 2010-01-21 08:12 · Score: 5, Insightful

There's funny, and then there's irresponsible. Having "Chuck Norris" as a master password that grants access to any account is most definitely the latter. I would expect that from a couple of teenagers running their first web server, not one of the most popular websites on the Internet. But Facebook WAS a couple of teenagers running a web server (He was 19 when FB launched)... and it grew. Not that I don't disagree with it being irresponsible, I'm just saying...