Move Fast and Break Things

http://blog.opbeat.com/2013/07/10/move-fast-and-break-things/

by roncohen • 13 years ago

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tezza• 13 years ago

But the things you broke were my personal phone contacts !!

Back in 2012 my emails started going missing, and other friends' too[1]. Turns out FB devs decided to update my iPhone Address Book without prompting me. They messed it up and emails started going missing.

I've kept the one data point that shows they were mucking around without prompting me. Among all the other actions they added this entry:

Facebook: update+kdv_h1d@facebook.com

This forced me to uninstall the iPhone Facebook client to prevent FB ever doing something like this again.

Break your own stuff if you must. Don't break my stuff.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4158695

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57464415-93/facebook-e-mail...

gwu78• 13 years ago

Reading this, from a purely common sense viewpoint, Facebook sounds like an extremely vulnerable and potentially insecure platform. This "throw caution to the wind" philosophy is interesting considering the information Facebook is responsible for protecting.

Move Fast and Break Things

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