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Google has shut down Facebook Secrets the Blogger Blog that was posting code from the recent Facebook server snafu. The mysterious owner of Facebook Secrets is not going without a fight though, s/he has posted a new site Facebook Secrets Again, though the Facebook code is not included.
Instead there are two DMCA notices from Google. The second, which appears to be a response to some sort of challenge of the site removal reads:
>As mentioned in our previous email, we work with a third party to post
DMCA notices we receive. The notice we received because of the content on
your site can be found here (once the notice has been posted):
>[http://www.chillingeffects.org/notice.cgi?sID=3836][1]
>We have had to remove the content mentioned in the complaint from your
blog. If we did not do so, we would be subject to a claim of copyright
infringement, regardless of its merits.
The link above leads to a page on Chilling Effect, a site that tracks DMCA notices, which reads: "DMCA (Copyright) Complaint to Google. The notice is not available."
But Facebook Secrets isn't the only site that's been served with a DMCA, Digg also received a [takedown notice][2] and [complied][3] (apparently Digg users aren't as interested in Facebook code as they are in [DVD unlock codes][4]).
Earlier this week Facebook contacted Wired News to give an official statement about the code leak, which read:
>A small fraction of the code that displays Facebook web pages was exposed to a small number of users due to a single misconfigured web server that was fixed immediately. It was not a security breach and did not compromise user data in any way. Because the code that was released only powers the Facebook user interface, it offers no useful insight
into the inner workings of Facebook. **The reprinting of this code violates several laws and we ask that people not distribute it further.** (emphasis mine)
Requests for clarification from Facebook regarding what specific laws were broken have gone unanswered. The complaint filed against Digg cites copyright violations, which isn't exactly "several laws," though it is enough to file a DMCA complaint.
For what it's worth an anonymous Compiler reader posted most of the code in the [comments of the previous entry][5].
[1]: http://www.chillingeffects.org/notice.cgi?sID=3836
[2]: http://www.chillingeffects.org/linking/notice.cgi?NoticeID=14134
[3]: http://digg.com/tech_news/Facebook_Source_Code_Leaked_Actual_PHP_Code?t=8452977#c8452977
[4]: http://blog.wired.com/business/2007/05/kevin_rose_conc.html
[5]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/08/amatuer-program.html#comment-79380419
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