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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

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post #5

Stuck at the pop-up page, just no. There are now so many sites where you have to agree with over 300 companies and their terms to track you for ads... How about finding another business model? This is beyond annoying.

You can give Brave (https://brave.com/) a try. I used to play whack-a-mole with the pop-ups until I started using it exclusively for browsing the internet. Not anymore!

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

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post #26
post #5

Stuck at the pop-up page, just no. There are now so many sites where you have to agree with over 300 companies and their terms to track you for ads... How about finding another business model? This is beyond annoying.

They're often filled with dark patterns too. I have to dig about seven pages in to turn of tracking to third parties in some of these popups. Might be a difference with me being a European visitor though?

This is just too much work at some point. And I'm guessing the GDPR scare plays a role too for European users—and often a counter productive one at that it seems.

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

#33
If Zuckerberg's FB account was deleted, I doubt he'd miss it. He doesn't use FB the same way everyone else does. And I sincerely doubt he uses FB Messenger to communicate with his friends and family. He probably uses Signal or something similar.

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

#34

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?!

What if the attacker is already in the system, and using this announcement as a probe for response and as an opportunity to harvest more info? (ie announce server x is going to get attacked, and stand back while logged into server y and monitor where/who the increased security presence and attention is coming from, and use that to target the next sigint / humint attack)

That seems like a bit overkill for a random publicity stunt.

But a pretty solid plan for someone doing actual corporate espionage.

I hope you work for the good guys.

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

#35

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?!

Fort Knox? No try again

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

#36
Something weird happened to me when I opened https://www.facebook.com/robots.tx/posts/1198980273583188

After opening the page I hit the back button and was automatically logged out from FB. I was logged in when I opened the page initially. Anyone experienced the same?

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

#37
post #36

Something weird happened to me when I opened https://www.facebook.com/robots.tx/posts/1198980273583188 After opening the page I hit the back button and was automatically logged out from FB. I was logged in when I opened the page initially. Anyone experienced the same?

me too

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

#39
post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

you can block Zuckerberg. I had already blocked Zuckerberg and just blocked Chan to see if I could.

This changed in the past year, I believe.
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