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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 by joering2 »

DoreenMichele wrote: post #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?!

Have you ever seen a line of a source code? Multiply that by million to arrived at Facebook size.

Clearly they wont make a source code evalution in few hours they have. This is not to say “im gonna rob wells fargo at corner of palm street and oak tomorrow at 11am”. This is to say “tomorrow at 11am i am going to rob one of 10,000 wells fargo units”.

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

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Post by sigfubar »

giancarlostoro wrote: post #42
sigfubar wrote: post #20

How much more would it cost to delete Facebook, Inc?

How much is Facebook worth overall? Buying it outright could give you that kind of power.

The argument I’m making is that Facebook isn’t actually worth its market cap. Its value is in fact negative when viewed in the larger context of humanity. So, my question sought to discover the sum of money that would become payable to whoever makes the scourge go away.

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

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Post by code_duck »

nurettin wrote: post #9
azhenley wrote: post #4

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

Zuckerberg would go to IT "hi guys, make a backup of my account every second and restore immediately after it is deleted, thx."

I don’t feel like Mark Zuckerberg’s account is continuously updated with crucial information. Probably updating it once every hour or two would be sufficient.

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Post by c8g »

goobynight wrote: post #47
lampzzy wrote: 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?

I think they logged out everyone. Starting last night actually.

no, only 90 million. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18094823

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

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Post by c8g »

lampzzy wrote: 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?

see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18094823

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

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Post by devoply »

djsumdog wrote: post #46
phwd wrote: post #19

He cancelled his plans to hack Mark Zuckerberg page, instead he filed a report to facebook.com/whitehat https://twitter.com/phwd/status/1045674238751969280 https://www.facebook.com/robots.tx/posts/1198980273583188

I mean it makes sense. If he can get account access or remote execution, that's a lot of money. Unless the hacker is already pretty well off and doesn't need it, it's probably not worth the publicity stunt.

Why take the money when you can televise your crimes? Not as if you can go to jail for that for many years.

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

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Post by emperorfin »

enitihas wrote: post #28
394549 wrote: 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…

I think his account is special in also the sense that he has two usernames: mark and zuck. I don't think any other Facebook account has that.

So it then means that http://facebook.com/mark redirects to http://facebook.com/zuck just as http://facebook.com/4 does...

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

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Post by emperorfin »

nurettin wrote: post #9
azhenley wrote: post #4

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

Zuckerberg would go to IT "hi guys, make a backup of my account every second and restore immediately after it is deleted, thx."

This sounds funny. You talk like a commedian. Any way to favorite this?
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