Some Facebook Source Code Leaked

If you acquire some source code for a popular online application, what else would you do except start up a fresh blog and post it? That’s what the people behind Facebook Secrets did and now the entire net is in a frenzy. The value of the source code doesn’t seem that apparent, since it’s just for the index page and not the rest of the website, but it may give ideas to crackers on how to delve deeper into the Facebook systems. It also shows just how vulnerable Facebook is, but that’s not exactly a new revelation. You would imagine Facebook is annoyed, but the entire Facebook community at large simply super-pokes each other and forgets about it.

This leak is not good news for Facebook, as it raises the question of how secure a Facebook users private data really is. If the main source code for a site can be leaked, then it can be said that almost anything is possible. Facebook has become such a success and has such a high profile that it has become a magnet for attacks against its systems.

Source: TechCrunch