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sorry, I hate Facebook, and their statement is Facebookish as always but I don't like this twist of words "it's your fault". it was really scraped, not "hacked"
by high_byte 6y ago
sorry, I hate Facebook, and their statement is Facebookish as always but I don't like this twist of words "it's your fault". it was really scraped, not "hacked"
- dexen 6y agoThank you for the explainer.
- boublepop 6y agoI guess it depends on how you draw the line between scraping and hacking. We can probably agree that if you publish a list of Marvel superheroes and I download it, that is scraping. If you put it behind password protection and I find an error and get it, then it’s hacking. Now let’s assume you make a quiz which uses the list as answers, taking the quiz is just normal behavior, automating taking the quiz in order to extract the whole list is somewhere between hacking and scraping to me. It’s not “just scraping content” but it’s also not using a security exploit to gain unauthorized access, it’s abusing the systems intended functionality to expose content that was not intended to be published and then collecting it. Obviously someone should’ve be able to get a Facebook account id just by providing a phone number in the first place, but if used as intended the feature is harmless, but if we want to claim this is “just scraping” then Facebook would also be claiming that the there was absolutely not issue in publishing a list of all user accounts and phone numbers in the first place.
- sdfhbdf 6y agoBut these people's number were not published. They were scraped from vulnerable "cloud server" - from what I gather some endpoint for Find My Friends feature was not secured. They blame shifting on fb is really unacceptable.
- goatinaboat 6y agoit was really scraped, not "hacked" It was really a spraying attack, which counts as "hacking".