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Facebook makes key Instagram security tool available to all

Express Computer | 11/08/2020 12:30 PM | Click to read full article

Facebook has formally open-sourced one of its secret security tools for Instagram that finds and fixes bugs. The tool called Pysa is now available on open-source repository GitHub.

Pysa is a security-focused tool built on top of Facebook’s type checker for Python called Pyre. It’s used to look at code and analyze how data flows through it. Pysa detected 44 percent of all security bugs in Instagram’s server-side Python code this year.

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