Facebook Master password- Chuck Norris-

[GRACIE JIU-JITSU]

  http://therumpus.net/2010/01/conversations-about-the-internet-5-anonymous-facebook-employee/?full=yes



Rumpus: You’ve previously mentioned a master password, which you no longer use.

Employee: I’m not sure when exactly it was deprecated, but we did have a master password at one point where you could type in any user’s user ID, and then the password. I’m not going to give you the exact password, but with upper and lower case, symbols, numbers, all of the above, it spelled out ‘Chuck Norris,’ more or less. It was pretty fantastic.

Rumpus: This was accessible by any Facebook employee?

Employee: Technically, yes. But it was pretty much limited to the original engineers, who were basically the only people who knew about it. It wasn’t as if random people in Human Resources were using this password to log into profiles. It was made and designed for engineering reasons. But it was there, and any employee could find it if they knew where to look.

I should also say that it was only available internally. If I were to log in from a high school or library, I couldn’t use it. You had to be in the Facebook office, using the Facebook ISP.

Rumpus: Do you think Facebook employees ever abused the privilege of having universal access?

Employee: I know it has happened in the past, because at least two people have been fired for it that I know of.

Rumpus: What did they do?

Employee: I know one of them went in and manipulated some other person’s data, changed their religious views or something like that. I don’t remember exactly what it was, but he got reported, got found out, got fired.

[Mr. Magoo]

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[Stark]

whats the point of that?
As an Facebook employee/engineer you should be able to logon see an edit button (which you only see if you logon from the facebook office and logon with the engineers username and pass) so you can edit the profiles.

[GRACIE JIU-JITSU]

whats the point of that?
As an Facebook employee/engineer you should be able to logon see an edit button (which you only see if you logon from the facebook office and logon with the engineers username and pass) so you can edit the profiles.

 Rumpus: Have you ever done it outside of professional reasons?

Employee: I will say, when I first started working there, yes. I used it to view other people’s profiles which I didn’t have permission to visit. I never manipulated their data in any way; however, I did abuse the profile viewing permission at several initial points when I started at Facebook.

Rumpus: How about reading their messages?

Employee: Never individually like that. I would mostly just look at profiles.

Rumpus: Would you suppose that Facebook employees might read people’s messages?

Employee: See, the thing is — and I don’t know how much you know about it — it’s all stored in a database on the backend. Literally everything. Your messages are stored in a database, whether deleted or not. So we can just query the database, and easily look at it without every logging into your account. That’s what most people don’t understand.