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Seeing as it's a brute-force per-account attack, a more accurate title would have been "How I could have hacked any Facebook account". Hacking "all of Facebook"
by Zikes 11y ago
Seeing as it's a brute-force per-account attack, a more accurate title would have been "How I could have hacked any Facebook account". Hacking "all of Facebook" would have been prohibitively resource-intensive for the hacker, and would likely have been caught and shut down before any real damage to the platform was done.
- ethanbond 11y agoThis alone would be enough to permanently cripple Facebook in the eyes of the public if applied "correctly." The iCloud/Fappening totally wasn't a big deal either, right? /s
- umanwizard 11y agoApple wasn't brought down by the fappening.
- dsmithatx 11y agoThe hacker could of worked with the black market. They could use a botnet to slowly hack a large percentage of FB potentially. Seeing as how they disabled rate-limiting on a pubic facing beta with user data, why assume they would notice brute forcing against beta?
- Zikes 11y agoThe attack involves resetting the user's password, which would have made the original user unable to access their own account until they reset the password back. After several such incidents were reported, Facebook likely would have cottoned on.
- dang 11y agoOk, we changed the title to say "any" rather than "all".