“It’s a big challenge,” says Jim Larus, a Microsoft researcher in Redmond, Washington, who studies large networks. The only network bigger, Larus suspects, is the web itself. That makes Facebook’s defence system one of the largest in existence.
It protects against scams by harnessing artificially intelligent software to detect suspicious patterns of behaviour. The system is overseen by a team of 30 people, but it can learn in real time and is able to take action without checking with a human supervisor.
This extract is from a post about Facebook’s security system, called the Facebook Immune System. Facebook’s scale and the system’s ability to work almost autonomously takes me right back to Terminator …
Source: newscientist.com
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