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		comex on April 30, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Hacker who stole Facebook source code comes clean They can figure out the exact algorithms being used to rank posts, make suggestions, etc., which could be interesting to a whole lot of people-- users, competitors, spammers...

RandallBrown on April 30, 2012 [–]

Damage can definitely be done, but it's still not as big a deal as many people like to think it would be.

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