[Link] Facebook Engineers Admit They Don’t Know What They Do With Your Data

Read: 8/9/2022 www.vice.com

Earlier this year, Motherboard reported about an internal Facebook document that said the company has no idea where users’ data goes, and what the company is doing with it.

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[Link] Thousands of Firefox users accidentally commit login cookies on GitHub

Read: 21/11/2021 www.theregister.com

Thousands of Firefox cookie databases containing sensitive data are available on request from GitHub repositories, data potentially usable for hijacking authenticated sessions. These cookies.sqlite databases normally reside in the Firefox profiles folder.

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