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> 2. This isn't a bug or a vulnerability, it's something you've actually coded - a feature. It doesn't 'accidentally' match up the number I've just entered with other people's phonebooks, you've programmed it to do that

You assume malicious intent. It might be. But it also might be a engineer who thinks "this would be a cool feature" without stopping to think about the ramifications of this.

Happens all the time; think of the Google engineer who decided that Buzz should auto-follow your most emailed contacts publicly or the NetFlix competition that outed a lesbian in small town America.

Not that I'm saying it's ok if that's the case; it's still a fuck up that needs to be fixed and in general companies need to be better about this - it happens to often.

Just saying I would have reported it to FB first and seen what they did. Responsible Disclosure, and all that.

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