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Originally Posted by Murlocke 
I don't think the writer knew much about how technology and websites work.
Theres no "code" that makes facebook have any value. Facebook definitely has off site backups of all its virtual data, and if the hacker wiped everything they could just get it from the backups. Unless in the extremely rare case this hacker somehow had access to every single server facebook stores stuff on, and could wipe it with a press of a button. Still that would take time to fully wipe and not be recoverable, and the staff over at facebook would know it's happening the second he started doing it.
Stealing the code and using it to create a duplicate facebook or something would be very obvious... and would just make him end up in jail that much sooner.
..Unless i'm missing something. There was no threat, other than facebook having a few days (or weeks) of downtime while they repaired the damage. Which, if anything, would probably cause them to be even more popular.
I don't think the writer knew much about how technology and websites work.
Theres no "code" that makes facebook have any value. Facebook definitely has off site backups of all its virtual data, and if the hacker wiped everything they could just get it from the backups. Unless in the extremely rare case this hacker somehow had access to every single server facebook stores stuff on, and could wipe it with a press of a button. Still that would take time to fully wipe and not be recoverable, and the staff over at facebook would know it's happening the second he started doing it.
Stealing the code and using it to create a duplicate facebook or something would be very obvious... and would just make him end up in jail that much sooner.
..Unless i'm missing something. There was no threat, other than facebook having a few days (or weeks) of downtime while they repaired the damage. Which, if anything, would probably cause them to be even more popular.
I assume it is some search or marketing algorithm. When I took networking last year, my teacher told me that they have algorithms that crawl through everyone's data; indexing, collecting, etc. I'm almost certain it would be some algorithm along the lines of that spec.
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