How Facebook Responded To Tunisian Hacks

Posted by Soulskill on Monday January 24, 2011 @08:52AM from the occupying-the-town-of-zuckerberg dept.

jamie writes "Facebook's security team opens up, shedding light on a revolution that could become a parable for Internet activism. Quoting: 'After more than ten days of intensive investigation and study, Facebook's security team realized something very, very bad was going on. The country's Internet service providers were running a malicious piece of code that was recording users' login information when they went to sites like Facebook. By January 5, it was clear that an entire country's worth of passwords were in the process of being stolen right in the midst of the greatest political upheaval in two decades. Sullivan and his team decided they needed a country-level solution — and fast. Though Sullivan said Facebook has encountered a wide variety of security problems and been involved in various political situations, they'd never seen anything like what was happening in Tunisia.'"

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Require HTTPS for all connections... by Cryect · 2011-01-24 08:57 · Score: 5, Insightful

Really is annoying that Facebook defaults to http
Kudos to facebook by operagost · 2011-01-24 08:58 · Score: 5, Insightful

When Facebook does something right, they should be commended. They easily could have shrugged their shoulders and said, "Not our problem!"

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HTTPS by gambino21 · 2011-01-24 09:00 · Score: 5, Insightful

Article Summary: They switched facebook to use https in Tunisia.
I wish facebook would consider just switching all traffic to https.
Pay Up by Anonymous Coward · 2011-01-24 09:01 · Score: 5, Insightful

So Facebook's sales guy called the President of Tunisia and said "Dude, you have to pay for all that user data just like everyone else does. What makes you think you're special?"