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Hacker says he'll livestream deletion of Zuckerberg's Facebook page

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Re: Hacker says he'll livestream deletion of Zuckerberg's Facebook page

#12
Oh, gosh. What a way to make sure this doesn't succeed.

You don't announce ahead of time you are doing something like this. You livestream it for maximum gotcha and shock value, make a tape of it and then have that go viral after you pulled off this wizardry.

This is like announcing you plan to break into Fort Knox on X date. Hello?!

Re: Hacker says he'll livestream deletion of Zuckerberg's Facebook page

#15
post #4

This seems like an easy thing for FB to make “undeletable”.

Seems smarter to let him do it, and watch how, with a hot backup ready for when he is done, or gone too far. Why leave this guy his 0day? So he can try again on other equally juicy targets? Using zucks is a relatively benign but powerful POC.

Re: Hacker says he'll livestream deletion of Zuckerberg's Facebook page

#16

Oh, gosh. What a way to make sure this doesn't succeed. You don't announce ahead of time you are doing something like this. You livestream it for maximum gotcha and shock value, make a tape of it and then have that go viral after you pulled off this wizardry. This is like announcing you plan to break into Fort Knox on X date. Hello?!

Maybe this is a red herring/diversion and the actual attempt will occur at a totally separate time?

Re: Hacker says he'll livestream deletion of Zuckerberg's Facebook page

#17
post #7
post #4

This seems like an easy thing for FB to make “undeletable”.

Zuckerberg's profile is already "special." It's known that no one can block his profile, and I wouldn't be surprised if there's other stuff as well. https://qz.com/1066804/facebook-fb-wont-let-you-block-mark-z... That doesn't mean that this guy doesn't know about that or found a way that bypasses those application-level checks. After all, he could always just issue delete statements on the database through some SQL i…

Perhaps this is where the hack is? Maybe he can ONLY hack zucks page due to its unique setup...

Re: Hacker says he'll livestream deletion of Zuckerberg's Facebook page

#18

Oh, gosh. What a way to make sure this doesn't succeed. You don't announce ahead of time you are doing something like this. You livestream it for maximum gotcha and shock value, make a tape of it and then have that go viral after you pulled off this wizardry. This is like announcing you plan to break into Fort Knox on X date. Hello?!

This sounds like a plan to get them to act now, use that info then to execute the deletion.

While if they don't respond, he won't succeed.

Probably far fetched but seems like a cool mind game

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