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Why would they bother checking the user agent when it's the easiest thing to spoof (really, you probably can't even call it spoofing)
by askvictor 8y ago
Why would they bother checking the user agent when it's the easiest thing to spoof (really, you probably can't even call it spoofing)
- shawnz 8y agoI'd bet that the vast majority of botters/phishers which Facebook deals with are amateurs. That said, I meant using unusual user agent software, not really just having an unusual user agent string.
- HenryBemis 8y agoNo need for software, one can easy change it on the about:config of Firefox and/or there are some cool add-ons that can rotate/change the user agent of a Firefox on the "desired frequency"
- adrianhel 8y agoWe have a Wordpress site that suddenly saw a surge of hacking attempts. Turns out they all had IE7 user agents. Blocked that, not a problem anymore. Wouldn't surprise me if big sites use simple measures for such simple attack attempts as well.