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Shocking behavior from the most immoral company on the Internet. What can be done about this?
If you are so easier to shock, you will probably die from a heart attack at 30.
But seriously, it is an action of one bad employee at worst, this story (if it is even true) can happen in any company. Facebook gets spotlighted simply because it is large.
HN is becoming a tool to report such crap. can we stop that pls. I know it may help some but get back their account but it ultimately does not solve the problem and it unfair as most people will not know how to make the necessary drama. + its annoying non-content post we get here every other week.
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I'd assume there would be bots or just someone trying to sign up with that username by random chance, so they didn't want to leave the username available for a moment. 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 a…
> and just did an email change + password reset on the original account. But isn't that why the user had 2FA on? Why can someone change the email + switch off 2FA; you would want only 1 of these would you not? If you tell support you lost your email and 2FA, that would be very unlikely, so why would it be so easy to set that up? Are there immutable logs with credentials for this kind of action and how easy is it for…
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If that was the case why would FB be marking the issue as resolved?
That could be completely made up. He could just be saying this to stir outrage at facebook and that’s why the tickets are being closed. There’s really no evidence of anything at all.
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... )
If that was the case why would FB be marking the issue as resolved?
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…
But no money changed hands, so not sure about that.
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Speak for yourself. You might accept them, but I do not. Not being on Facebook has its problem in a society that is mostly on it, but it is possible.
It is a nuisance to the people around you. If they're organizing something and make a FB/VK event for it, someone will have to bother themselves with relaying you all the updates via your preferred communication channels. We need working federated social media asap.
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There is some evidence of some kind of takeover though. Searching for site: http://instagram.com/danny in google, the first result is the following: Danny (@danny) • Instagram photos and videos www.instagram.com › danny 8690 Followers, 134 Following, 100 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Danny (@danny) This is still in Google's cache. The current instagram profile is very different.
That’s...not evidence of a facebook employee being implicated. It’s actually not even evidence that the account even swapped hands!
Do you honestly believe a jury of average people would agree with this proposition? It seems contrary to common sense.
Keep in mind that there is a significant difference between what meets the relevancy bar in court, and what is logically probative. See, e.g., https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/fre/rule_401