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Facebook briefly takes over entire Internet with redirection bug

 
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02/07/2013 11:39 PM
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Facebook briefly takes over entire Internet with redirection bug
A bug with Facebook's ubiquitous embedded widgets redirected millions from the websites they were visiting to Facebook itself Thursday. It's now fixed, but for awhile, some of the largest sites in the world were inaccessible.

Visitors to such sites as CNN, The Washington Post, BuzzFeed, the Gawker network (including Gizmodo), and NBC News were instantly transferred to a Facebook error page upon loading the intended site.

[link to m.nbcnews.com]
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02/07/2013 11:45 PM
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Re: Facebook briefly takes over entire Internet with redirection bug
You have all been forewarned.
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02/07/2013 11:46 PM
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Re: Facebook briefly takes over entire Internet with redirection bug
You have all been forewarned.
 Quoting: IndygoGutenberg


about?
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02/07/2013 11:50 PM
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Re: Facebook briefly takes over entire Internet with redirection bug
You have all been forewarned.
 Quoting: IndygoGutenberg


about?
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That you are being WATCHED and judged by the technological singularity. Be goooood!

Widgets are javascript based embedded code - this very GLP website contains many!

Those that must yield this warning, are those that seek to do "evil", or harm other consciousness, as you may refer.

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02/08/2013 12:18 AM
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Re: Facebook briefly takes over entire Internet with redirection bug
Would it surprise you to learn that it
is planned to use FB as your internet
login page. Ask yourself this... Why are
there so MANY sites that now let you
logon with your FB id and password?
Why? Everything you do on the sites
you use after using FB id to logon is
being data collected on FB servers.
FOREVER.

Just thought you might want to know.
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02/08/2013 01:25 AM
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Re: Facebook briefly takes over entire Internet with redirection bug
Would it surprise you to learn that it
is planned to use FB as your internet
login page. Ask yourself this... Why are
there so MANY sites that now let you
logon with your FB id and password?
Why? Everything you do on the sites
you use after using FB id to logon is
being data collected on FB servers.
FOREVER.

Just thought you might want to know.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 33283062


Thanks for the heads up. Never heard of anything like that being considered. I don't use Facebook, have to wonder how that would work for people like me. Did think there was something more to this incident than meets the eye though. Wouldn't think it's that easy to take over the whole Internet and redirect major sites such as CNN that easily, apps or no apps. Glitch or no glitch.
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02/08/2013 01:30 AM
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Re: Facebook briefly takes over entire Internet with redirection bug
Would it surprise you to learn that it
is planned to use FB as your internet
login page. Ask yourself this... Why are
there so MANY sites that now let you
logon with your FB id and password?
Why? Everything you do on the sites
you use after using FB id to logon is
being data collected on FB servers.
FOREVER.

Just thought you might want to know.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 33283062


The legality of something like that highly questionable I would think.
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02/08/2013 01:30 AM
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Re: Facebook briefly takes over entire Internet with redirection bug
Would it surprise you to learn that it
is planned to use FB as your internet
login page. Ask yourself this... Why are
there so MANY sites that now let you
logon with your FB id and password?
Why? Everything you do on the sites
you use after using FB id to logon is
being data collected on FB servers.
FOREVER.

Just thought you might want to know.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 33283062


The legality of something like that highly questionable I would think.
IndygoGutenberg

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02/08/2013 03:12 AM
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All are being watched at this point in the timeline...
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02/08/2013 03:20 AM
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FaceBrother is watching...

1984manual
--"In this era of great big brains anything that can happen will. So hunker down." -- Kurt Vonnegut, JR. -- Galapagos.
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02/08/2013 03:23 AM
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All are being watched at this point in the timeline...
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So true. Also amazing that the computers we are willing to pay for and the software installed on them are by default set to share data with any site we visit . Amazing. Have to jumps through hoops to ensure even some tiny measure of privacy and be ever vigilant in checking those settings because they occasionally revert back to the defaults. Hardware and software we purchase and own and ave limited power to control what data of our is given to others. Geolocation. Lol . Now tv's are entering the stage, cars with black boxes, smart meters ......right to privacy ? Gone.
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FaceBrother is watching...

:1984manual:
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Sure seems like it...
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Re: Facebook briefly takes over entire Internet with redirection bug
It was really weird!! It happened to me when I was on the daily mail uk site homepage trying to click a story. Kept redirecting me to a FB error page. CRAZEBALLS.
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