Google's legal Luftwaffe has swooped on Facebook's behalf to shoot down an anonymous blog which posted two sections of source code leaked by the social network utility.

Facebook Secrets [1] was at the centre of the embarrassing code exposure over the weekend after it republished code served up by the site to student Trae McNeely. His story is here [2]. The second dollop of PHP script was dished up by the blog on Monday.

Two DMCA takedown notices sent by Google's Blogger team have been posted on a new blog, Facebook Secrets Again [3]. After the masked promulgator failed to respond to a first request to remove the code, Google deleted it itself yesterday.

Facebook's spinners had taken the slightly inconsistent line [4] that the code was useless and no security threat, but that posting it was super-illegal.

Oddly, the code (which related to Facebook's home page and search function) is still available in Google's own cache here [5]. Google can expect a DMCA takedown from itself forthwith. ®

Links

1. http://facebooksecrets.blogspot.com/
2. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/14/new_facebook_code_leak/
3. http://facebooksecretsagain.blogspot.com/
4. http://www.theregister.com/2007/08/13/facebook_code_leak/
5. http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:arx131RdFsgJ:facebooksecrets.blogspot.com/+facebook+secrets&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=uk

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