Followup to "I bought more than 1 million Facebook data entries for $5"
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Re: Followup to "I bought more than 1 million Facebook data entries for $5"
#2"According to Facebook you are not allowed to read this post, so beware."
Re: Followup to "I bought more than 1 million Facebook data entries for $5"
#3I recently had cause to log in to facebook (first time in 6 months) because my account had been compromised and was used to place a bunch of ads ("find hot guys in your area") which they had apparently approved (and ran to ~$100 in a few hours).
I was impressed with the account recovery process ("you entered an old password -- do you want to recover your account?"), but I felt like they were completely optimized for recovery versus preventing the intrusion in the first place (ala Google's two-factor auth).
Anyway, in this case they obviously took the wrong approach with the blogger and I hope it blows up in their faces. (Microsoft and everyone else used to not be nice to security researchers, Facebook will no doubt learn that cooperation is a better strategy too).
Re: Followup to "I bought more than 1 million Facebook data entries for $5"
#4This is pretty insane. Did you ever agree to the confidentiality of the conversation you were having?
Re: Followup to "I bought more than 1 million Facebook data entries for $5"
#5I recently had cause to log in to facebook (first time in 6 months) because my account had been compromised and was used to place a bunch of ads ("find hot guys in your area") which they had apparently approved (and ran to ~$100 in a few hours). I was impressed with the account recovery process ("you entered an old password -- do you want to recover your account?"), but I felt like they were completely optimized for…
FYI Facebook has two-factor auth as well: https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150172618258920.
Re: Followup to "I bought more than 1 million Facebook data entries for $5"
#6So Facebook is not only the x largest state, but also acts on the same level of paranoia as government agencies do?
Re: Followup to "I bought more than 1 million Facebook data entries for $5"
#7I don't know why Facebook reacted like that. But as I understand, those information are not from Facebook itself. They are from an unknown third party app. Also, anyone who has a knowledge in Facebook API can mine those information by creating a Facebook app. I'm sure those app like "God wants you to know" have more than 1 million Facebook information.
By reacting like that, I think Facebook can be considered as guilty as charged.
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#8You really don't want to mess with the Facebook police. They'll delete your life.
I wish I had something more substantive to say here, but the problem is that we give Facebook an extraordinarily huge power in our personal lives. It's not just some random web service.
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Re: Followup to "I bought more than 1 million Facebook data entries for $5"
#10I recently had cause to log in to facebook (first time in 6 months) because my account had been compromised and was used to place a bunch of ads ("find hot guys in your area") which they had apparently approved (and ran to ~$100 in a few hours). I was impressed with the account recovery process ("you entered an old password -- do you want to recover your account?"), but I felt like they were completely optimized for…
FYI Facebook has two-factor auth as well: https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150172618258920 .
I wonder how frequently used the accounts which are used for fraud are?
But I guess it's tricky -- maybe I'm signing in from a remote location after many months of inactivity to post some vacation photos, and can't receive texts on my phone because it doesn't work in whatever country I'm in...