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A vulnerability in Facebook's web chatrooms and its Messenger app would have let miscreants surreptitiously tamper with messages after they had been sent. The flaw was discovered by eggheads at security biz Check Point, who reported it to the social network giant. We're told attackers would have needed only a basic knowledge …

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  1. TRT Silver badge

    I've not read the article yet...

    But for that headline, you win the Internet (or is that internet?)

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    1. Nixinkome
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      Re: I've not read the article yet...

      Me neither . Are those emoji available?

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    2. Ashton Black
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      Re: I've not read the article yet...

      Me threether, but I bow down to that headline. Nice work indeed!

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  2. Anonymous Coward
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    fap

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  3. Crazy Operations Guy

    One of the reasons why I avoid shortened URLs

    I wonder how many times a group chat has been altered to modify a shortened URL without anyone noticing...

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