Facebook’s Midnight Message Delivery Back Online After Bug Is Squashed
Facebook’s Midnight Message Delivery feature is back online after the social network temporarily disabled it in order to deal with a bug discovered by blogger and Aberystwyth University student Jack Jenkins.
Facebook’s Midnight Message Delivery feature is back online after the social network temporarily disabled it in order to deal with a bug discovered by blogger and Aberystwyth University student Jack Jenkins.
The Guardian reported on the blog post by Jenkins, who wrote:
By simple manipulation of the ID at the end of the URL of a sent message on the Facebook Stories site, you are able to view other people’s Happy New Year messages. At least I was when I edited the ID for myself.
For example, I made this test one, which you should be able to see saying “TEST TEST TEST TEST.”
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