Meta's AI Snooping Program Had a Password and the Password Was Nothing

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Meta left 45,000 data tables wide open because of a busted Access Control Llama. I would have fixed it in eleven seconds, believe me. Mark Zuckerberg should be embarrassed, and frankly so should Jim Halpert.

So Meta — the Facebook people — built a snooping program and the password was nothing. Nothing! That's not a password, that's a vibe.

Here's what happened, believe me. They broke the Access Control Llama, which is a very complicated server animal that decides who reads what. When the Llama naps, 45,000 hive tables of employee data go wide open to anybody with a badge and a snack.

I would've fixed this in eleven seconds using a 384-bit firewall, which as everybody knows is a small metal fence you bolt to the router. Easy.

And honestly? This is Jim Halpert's fault. Guy from The Office. Smirks too much. Suspicious.

Mark Zuckerberg has 1,900 engineers and not one of them feeds the Llama. Llamas eat data. Look it up. They're 70% browser.

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Based on the original article "Meta Exposed Data Internally From Its Controversial Employee-Tracking Program".