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Tuesday, 14 August 2007
A blog named Facebook Secrets has published source code from the social networking site Facebook. Source code published over the weekend is from Facebook's front end, and source code published last night is for Facebook's user search interface. The second round of source code was published after Facebook's lawyers sent cease and desist notices.

It is feared that programmers could potentially analyze the architecture of the site and exploit any security weaknesses.

In a report from Heather Havenstein of Computer World, a spokeswoman from Facebook denies vulnerability:

The incident was not a security breach "and did not compromise user data in any way," the spokeswoman said. "Because the code that was released only powers the Facebook [user interface], it offers no useful insight into the inner workings of Facebook," she added.

However, Pete Lindstrom, a senior security analyst at Burton Group, said that anytime source code is accidentally revealed, "there is potential for an increase in risk." He added that when a company dismisses the security implications of such an incident, there likely really are security issues.

Trae McNeely is claiming credit for leaking the PHP code.


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