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Facebook founder had a master password |
You are not paranoid about surveillance - at least, not as far as Facebook is concerned. It appears that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his minions, in the early days, had a master password with which they could sign in to any user account and poke at whatever data we entrusted to the site.
The Guardian gleaned this from Zuckerberg's former speechwriter, Katherine Losse. Losse told the media outlet that users should be guarded with their private data on the site - a timely warning, given the launch of Facebook's social search tool graph search. Losse - aka Facebook employee No. 51 - joined the company in 2005 as a customer support staffer and worked her way up to being Zuckerberg's ghostwriter. She left in 2010 and, according to the Guardian, is now regarded as a rogue former employee by Facebook itself.
Facebook, the early years: handing out a master password like candy | The Naked Security
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