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Some Facebook code leaked online at facebooksecrets.blogspot.com (I prefer not to link directly to the site):

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After the release of the code, it was speculated that some displeased developer leaked it and/or that there’s a major security issue at Facebook.com.

Later on, Facebook PR chief Brandee Barker stated the following on Techcrunch.com:

“A small fraction of the code that displays Facebook web pages was exposed to a small number of users due to a single
misconfigured web server that was fixed immediately. It was not a security breach and did not compromise user data in any way.
Because the code that was released only powers the Facebook user interface, it offers no useful insight into the inner
workings of Facebook. The reprinting of this code violates several laws and we ask that people not distribute it further.”

So it seems that it was a server misconfiguration (apache / mod_php) or high traffic that led the server to output the code instead of the interpreted page? Would be plausible. But then, if issues like this are known, why don’t you take care of it?

Wasn’t there Sysadmin Day lately?

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Here’s some nice translation that I’ve found at the SEO 2.0 blog.

Too funny and so true…

• “We offer Search Engine Optimization/SEO” = We assume you are the Google bot and want you to index this page for both keywords
• “We offer Search Engine Optimisation” = Our SEO company is based in the UK
• “Guaranteed top positions” = We place Google Adwords for you
• “We do SEO, SEM, PPC to increase your ROI” = We do not want you to know what we do
• “We stick to the Google Webmaster Guidelines” = We only break them in a way that we assume Google won’t notice
• “We tell you how to make money online” = We want you to click on our ads
• “10 ways of making money online” = Those are our 10 affiliates, please click on the respective undisclosed ads
• “We offer social media optimization” = We got several accounts banned at Digg
• “We offer link baiting services” = We want to put those drunk naked ladies video on your site
• “Our network” = Our link farm
• “Authority sites” = Sites that do no SEO
• “Black hat SEO” = We do anything to get rich quick, even if your site gets banned
• “White hat SEO” = We only cheat Google where we have to, others do it too, come on!
• “We optimize for Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask” = If we fail in Google you still have to pay
• “Search Engine Submission” = We need your mail address, those guys offered us $$$ for each 1000 verified addresses
• “Partners” = People we never heard of until we exchanged links
• “PageRank optimization” = Sorry, we just started doing SEO and do not have a clue
• “SEO India” = We offer 1000 links for 30$
• “Alexa optimization” = All our employess have the Alexa Toolbar installed, it really works!

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