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Hacker says he'll livestream deletion of Zuckerberg's Facebook page
- sigfubar 8y agoHow much more would it cost to delete Facebook, Inc?
- giancarlostoro 8y agoHow much is Facebook worth overall? Buying it outright could give you that kind of power.
- sigfubar 8y agoThe 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.
- ElectronShak 8y agoI tried see the link to the "hacker"'s Facebook in the article and i got a "page not available", so probably there won't be a livestream from his account.....with 26000+, ah sorry, 0 followers
- mfoy_ 8y agoA part of me really wants this to succeed.
- lewisflude 8y agoDo you think Facebook are likely to deploy any sort of additional monitoring/security around Zuckerberg's page whilst he's streaming?
- phwd 8y agoHe cancelled his plans to hack Mark Zuckerberg page, instead he filed a report to facebook.com/whitehat https://twitter.com/phwd/status/1045674238751969280 https://twitter.com/phwd/status/1045674238751969280 https://www.facebook.com/robots.tx/posts/1198980273583188 https://www.facebook.com/robots.tx/posts/1198980273583188
- djsumdog 8y agoI 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.
- azhenley 8y agoThis seems like an easy thing for FB to make “undeletable”.
- 394549 8y agoZuckerberg'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-zuckerberg-and-priscilla-chan/ 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 injection or something.
- justtopost 8y agoPerhaps this is where the hack is? Maybe he can ONLY hack zucks page due to its unique setup...
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- dwighttk 8y agoyou can block Zuckerberg. I had already blocked Zuckerberg and just blocked Chan to see if I could.
- ghostly_s 8y agoThis changed in the past year, I believe.
- enitihas 8y agoI 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.
- Hoasi 8y agoStuck at the pop-up page, just no. There are now so many sites where you have to agree with over 300 companies and their terms to track you for ads... How about finding another business model? This is beyond annoying.
- antonkm 8y agoThey're often filled with dark patterns too. I have to dig about seven pages in to turn of tracking to third parties in some of these popups. Might be a difference with me being a European visitor though?
- Hoasi 8y agoThis is just too much work at some point. And I'm guessing the GDPR scare plays a role too for European users—and often a counter productive one at that it seems.
- yawboakye 8y agoYou can give Brave (https://brave.com/ https://brave.com/) a try. I used to play whack-a-mole with the pop-ups until I started using it exclusively for browsing the internet. Not anymore!
- clubm8 8y agoHe's like a low rent V for Vendetta
- djohnston 8y ago"A white-hat hacker is promising to livestream his bid to hack into Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook account on Sunday (30th September). " That isn't white hat...
- wlll 8y agoSomewhat OT, but reminded me of this classic: "Oh, that was easy," says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.” https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/35681-now-it-is-such-a-bizarrely-improbable-coincidence-that-anything https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/35681-now-it-is-such-a-biza...
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- dunpeal 8y agoFinally, a cool PHP project.
- DoreenMichele 8y agoOh, 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?!
- chaosbutters314 8y agoThis sounds like a plan to get them to act now, use that info then to execute the deletion. While if they don't respond, he won't succeed. Probably far fetched but seems like a cool mind game
- lewisflude 8y agoMaybe this is a red herring/diversion and the actual attempt will occur at a totally separate time?
- kevin2r 8y agoTrue, distracting the public, kind of like the first episode of Black Mirror.
- bryanrasmussen 8y agoAre you sure it's not more like announcing you plan on robbing the local gas station on X date?
- barkingcat 8y agoWhat if the attacker is already in the system, and using this announcement as a probe for response and as an opportunity to harvest more info? (ie announce server x is going to get attacked, and stand back while logged into server y and monitor where/who the increased security presence and attention is coming from, and use that to target the next sigint / humint attack)
- ghostbrainalpha 8y ago
- dewiz 8y agoLikely to clone Zuck’s profile and delete that, with people rushing to FB and finding out it was a joke. Or perhaps delete Zuck’s profile from his friended connections, maybe replacing the connection with a fake.
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- da_murvel 8y agoYeah, how about he never to intended to livestream it in the first place and just said so to gain attention
- the_duke 8y agoThis.
- ThisIsMyHNLogin 8y agoIf Zuckerberg's FB account was deleted, I doubt he'd miss it. He doesn't use FB the same way everyone else does. And I sincerely doubt he uses FB Messenger to communicate with his friends and family. He probably uses Signal or something similar.
- lampzzy 8y agoSomething weird happened to me when I opened https://www.facebook.com/robots.tx/posts/1198980273583188 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?
- Keloo 8y agome too
- rory096 8y agoPer Google Translate, the second to last paragraph reads: >If someone has just been logged out, >it’s just being logged out. >Don’t worry.
- lampzzy 8y agoTrue. FB translation is not as accurate. Could it be that the logout is being forced by something in the post? If yes, that's worrying.
- goobynight 8y agoI believe Facebook started logging people out last night through today for some reason. Not due to any links, but it could have been related to this article.
- samueloph 8y agoI got logged out before opening any of these urls, so it's definitely not triggered by the post (at least not directly).
- goobynight 8y agoI think they logged out everyone. Starting last night actually.
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- Keloo 8y agoIs it even possible? I mean FB has no such feature as delete account. (I'm sarcastic here..)
- cryptozeus 8y agoHa, he probably wanted FB’s attention and got it. Not sure about his hacking skills but great marketing tactic :) many hackers have claimed that fb doesn’t reply or follow through on their bug findings let alone pay for it.
- tomcooks 8y agos/hacker/cracker/g
- samueloph 8y agoI think we all know what this was about now: Facebook Network Breach Impacts Up to 50M Users https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18094823 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18094823