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Cake day: August 25th, 2025

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  • I have a very, very old Facebook account I created some 20 years ago, back when Facebook was new. I created it with a throwaway email address. I use it every so often to check Facebook pages of associations or organizations I’m interested in, and it has a totally BS profile complete with fake bio, fake photos of me and my fake family, and ultra boring life events I regularly add to to maintain a plausible fake persona, should someone ask me to justify that I’m a “real” person using an old bona-fide-looking Facebook account.

    When I log in, it never asks me anything at all. I guess old accounts are exempt from Zuckerberg’s corporate surveillance hysteria - or more likely, Facebook forgot to upgrade them.




  • Well, Whatsapp and Facebook are their own honeypots. There’s heaps to say about why nobody should use them for any reasons.

    But in this case, the man was found out because his accomplice had compromising messages on his cellphone. Be they Whatsapp message, SMS messages, emails… doesn’t matter here. It’s not a story of how communication channels operated by Big Data are not really secure and only designed to lure you in for your data, but a story of how one person’s carelessness did another person in.