This is serious. Twitter (Twitter) has a big security problem. Let’s rephrase that – most aspects of Twitter – user accounts, admin accounts, various personal accounts of important people in the company’s hierarchy, such as Evan Williams, are (or at least, have been) a security Swiss cheese. There’s been so many problems over the past couple of months that it’s getting hard to keep track of them.
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Great Wall of Facebook: The Plan to Dominate the Internet
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Larry Page should have been in a good mood. It was the fall of 2007, and Google's cofounder was in the middle of a five-day tour of his company's European operations in Zurich, London, Oxford, and Dublin. The trip had been fun, a chance to get a ground-floor look at Google's ever-expanding empire. But this week had been particularly exciting, for reasons that had nothing to do with Europe; Google was planning a major investment in Facebook, the hottest new company in Silicon Valley.
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Facebook cleans up its privacy controls
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The social network's privacy controls had gotten so sprawling that they were distributed across six separate pages and 40 different settings, according to a conference call the company held on Wednesday.
As a result, Facebook's new controls will be more streamlined so as to offer easier and simpler controls about how much everything from entire profiles to individual pieces of content are shared.
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