BFF: what it is and whether it checks Facebook security
In mid-March, it became known that in Facebook happenedand a major leak of personal user data. A few days later, in the Russian segment of Facebook, a strange rumor appeared about a new security check that Mark Zuckerberg himself allegedly introduced. Jellyfish.
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Users claimed that you can check your account by writing an abbreviation BFF in a post or comments. According to them, it shows whether user data has been compromised or not. If the letters turn green, then everything is fine, and the account is protected, and if they remain black, then an urgent need to change the password.
But users were wrong. BFF ("best friends forever"-" best friends forever ") - this is the status of the service Facebook Delight, which automatically selects trigger words and adds animation to them. AT Facebook Delight There are several phrases in Russian - “Congratulations”, “My congratulations” and “I love you” - their social network is highlighted in orange and red. There are a few dozen words and abbreviations in different languages.
The grand scandal around the most popular social network on the planet Facebook gaining momentum. The illegal use of 50 data by millions of users has already cost the company tens of billions of dollars in capitalization. But the main intrigue is in this story. Appeared "Russian trace".
Details about the history of Kogan and his scam ForumDaily wrote in the material “As a scientist from Russia stole the data of Facebook users for the company, advising Trump".
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