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Still the same Facebook from 2004, despite the name change.

It's nice they're giving us annual reminders they're still scumbags.

They literally pay engineers to come up with crazy grey hat techniques to monitor people’s online activity. And those scumbags are probably HN users. It’s sinister. I wonder about the wording used by the manager behind it. It probably sounded plain evil and nobody who worked on it cared. It makes you wonder what else those parasites do that we haven’t discovered yet.

I heard many excuses from some of them.

* If I don't do it, someone else will.

* Don't be naive, everybody is doing it.

* Well, one has to support one's family.

* C'mon, we're not actually hurting anyone. Did opening this port actually hurt you?

And so on.

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