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Comment: Facebook cribs from DOJ playbook, seeks to deter international wrongdoing

By Mike Swift ( March 15, 2019, 21:41 GMT | Comment) -- Gleb Sluchevsky and Andrey Gorbachov allegedly had a novel idea back in 2016 to break into Facebook’s computers: Turn the browsers of Facebook users into both digital burglar and burglary victim at the same time. The details of that scheme are detailed in an unconventional pair of lawsuits filed by Facebook in recent days as the company attempts to take a stronger role to policing its platform. Those schemes attacked not just Facebook and Instagram, but also Amazon, Apple, Google, LinkedIn, Twitter, Mozilla and Opera, Facebook said in court filings.Ukranians Gleb Sluchevsky and Andrey Gorbachov allegedly had a novel idea back in 2016 to break into Facebook’s computers: Turn the browsers of Facebook users into both digital burglar and burglary victim at the same time....

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