Inside Facebook's Cyber-Security System 63
An anonymous reader writes "The Facebook Immunity System (FIS) processes and checks 25 billion actions every day, or 650,000 actions every second. The social networking giant's cybersecurity system was developed over a three-year period to keep the service's users safe from spam and cyberattacks. FIS scans every click on Facebook for patterns that could suggest something malicious is spreading across the social network."
And it doesn't work. (Score:3, Informative)
Numerous pages I've liked incessantly spew spam at me, my mother keeps getting messages from "facebook security" or some variation thereof, asking her to confirm her password.
It prevents me from finding Beta Testers (Score:5, Informative)
From time to time I would post a link to the Beta Testing [dulcineatech.com] announcment for my iOS App. After a while Facebook would not allow me to post the link anymore, claiming that it was abusive.
A friend of mine who uses Facebook quite a lot had to sign up for a second account because her first account kept getting censored. She was not doing anything the least bit abusive, just using Facebook a lot to keep in touch with her friends.
Re:It prevents me from finding Beta Testers (Score:5, Informative)