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Re: Facebook Goes Open Source

GROU.PS - Latuminggi — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 05:10:33 -0000

Oh my God, this is what I want to see.. It sounds great! :D

Re: Facebook Goes Open Source

GROU.PS - Latuminggi — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 05:07:33 -0000

Oh my God, this is what I want to see.. It sounds great! :D

Re: Facebook Goes Open Source

Jason Timm — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 19:12:22 -0000

Since when are the stories about MySpace and pedophiles blown out of proportion???

Thousands of pedophiles are still on their network and kids have been hurt by that fact. I have to cringe each time I hear someone say that it's really no big deal. Has your child ever been bullied, stalked, or raped from a creep on MySpace?

Re: Facebook Goes Open Source

victoria jones — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 17:53:01 -0000

-- This is nothing but a tech glitch that need not have Zuckerbergâ€™s weekend ruined! Facebook is not popular because of its coding. - Azzam --

Hmmm, maybe in blogland, but in the real world it will depend if a paper has a quiet day this week and then they run the story "FACEBOOK HACKED, YOUR PRIVATE DETAILS AT RISK!" or something equally appealing and shocking to the normal readership who might not have signed up yet.

Only this week on the radio I heard a national presenter say he was on Myspace, but has not signed up to Facebook as he has heard that they are a bit suspect. (this to 4 million listeners because of the BNP advertising).

People don't give a monkey about code, they do avoid sites that may violate their perception of privacy or make money from Nazi sympathisers. That's two for facebook, I bet a sex case is being lined up next. They always say any publicity is good publicity, but paedophilia and racism is the exception.

Re: Facebook Goes Open Source

Manny — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 15:57:38 -0000

FacebookSOURCE.com has a lot of other scripts, hacks, and tricks for Facebook, as well as other links to Facebookâ€™s Homepage script incase this one goes offline.

Re: Facebook Goes Open Source

Zaiaku — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 14:47:01 -0000

So how long is it going to take before someone is able to seriously exploit this. A few number of sites have done this before.

Re: Facebook Goes Open Source

Flexy — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 13:38:00 -0000

i wish a cms takes this and hooks the rest of the world up. wasn't that mark zuckerburgs plan after all, too hooks us all up?

Re: Facebook Goes Open Source

pf0t0n — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 11:04:35 -0000

This is reflective of a massive 2.0 problem ~ and now we are beginning to see the ramifications of poor security. It's not jus a Facebook problem (or even a MySpace problem) but cuts accross the board of our industry. OpenID has been exposed among many, many others. The suggestion that they hire a security expert for PR purposes exposes the joke and mindless attempt to provide pr cover while not dealing with the problem. This costs us ultimately in future funding for countless other sites. Wake uf folks - this problem is a massive problem for a number os sites.

Re: Facebook Goes Open Source

azzam — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 08:21:23 -0000

There is nothing special or unique for you to see here, just the working framework for a php built site. Most of them are command functions to call other commands into the homepage.

Do not get overwhelmed because you saw it on techcrunch or mashable. Facebook itself started on an open source platform and evolved. The facebook clones that are out there are not any genius inside leak, it just a coder studying the function of facebook and similar CMS and putting it together. Damn you can buy a facebook clone for about $200 and modify yourself to perform better! I could get facebooks coding if I wanted to!

This is nothing but a tech glitch that need not have Zuckerbergâ€™s weekend ruined! Facebook is not popular because of its coding.

Re: Facebook Goes Open Source

gettit — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 06:22:02 -0000

I have to imagine that the breach wasn't restricted to the index page only. I've heard others got profile.php, and I would imagine that some might get their kicks by releasing the index code and getting some street cred, while working the darker arts on deeper code. Whatever the real story, some poor schmuck is having a completely crappy shortened weekend.