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This needs to stop
I think this is indicative of the biggest problem we have had with social media: there is no legalism here, just "codes of conduct" that companies and users both willfully ignore. If your handle gets sold by some facebook employee to a rich kid in LA, what recourse do you have? I don't know what laws this would break (maybe some broad definition of fraud? I Am Not A Lawyer) so it's not like this person has a slam dun…
I don't think the "theft" of the username would break any kind of law, as this was a company decision (since it done by an employee) and the username was never your property anyway. I'm assuming that employee definitely violated some internal policies, but nothing from a legal point of view. The only recourse I can see from a legal point of view is that they seem to have handed over the entire account (as the followe…
There's no evidence to back the user's claims. This sounds like "Hey my dad works at Xbox and will ban you". There are other ways to compromise an Instagram account, like sim swapping ( https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/05/t-mobile-employee-made-u... )
There's no evidence to back the user's claims. This sounds like "Hey my dad works at Xbox and will ban you". There are other ways to compromise an Instagram account, like sim swapping ( https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/05/t-mobile-employee-made-u... )
Agreed. Is anyone really going to risk their cushy FAANG job to give their buddy a cool handle? Possible, but seems far fetched.
I'm worried about the failure of Internet literacy reflected here. As far as I can tell, the author of the Twitter thread is just some guy, not famous or otherwise widely known to be reputable. And he's presented no evidence which can be independently confirmed - he could be misunderstanding the scenario, or the framing could be made up, or the screenshots could be faked, or any of a million other things. But a bunch…
There's no evidence to back the user's claims. This sounds like "Hey my dad works at Xbox and will ban you". There are other ways to compromise an Instagram account, like sim swapping ( https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/05/t-mobile-employee-made-u... )
Agreed. Is anyone really going to risk their cushy FAANG job to give their buddy a cool handle? Possible, but seems far fetched.
But it occurred I was authentic enough to remove my account. Not to regain access but to delete it - yes. Which I did.
It is one of many moments during last year's Facebook gave me the cringy feeling I am not a valuable product for them
I find it strange that the Facebook employee wouldn't just forcibly change OP's username to something else (e.g. @danny123) then give the desired name to their friend. Actually stealing someone's account seems like an over the top and unlikely way to go about this.
I'd assume there is a proper, transactional (as in database transactions) way to swap usernames like that but the person who did this most likely didn't have access to it (for good reason) and just did an email change + password reset on the original account.
I'm worried about the failure of Internet literacy reflected here. As far as I can tell, the author of the Twitter thread is just some guy, not famous or otherwise widely known to be reputable. And he's presented no evidence which can be independently confirmed - he could be misunderstanding the scenario, or the framing could be made up, or the screenshots could be faked, or any of a million other things. But a bunch…
I know him. He's the poster on here, not just the tweet.
It's sad and upsetting, but when will people learn that Facebook, Google et al do not care at all about individual users? Their model simply does not factor in the worries of a single user. (Worse is how they want to propagate the idea that software should be free and of highest quality, thus preventing any communal attempts at creating different models.) I advice everyone who has an account to at least download thei…
I’ve read somewhere that Facebook even embeds tracking pixels in the HTML of the data export, so keep this in mind if you ever actually look at the exported data.
