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Ummm...so let's say you upload a couple of private photos from a strip club on Facebook. They were meant to be private, but unfortunately, technically they wer
by neya 14y ago
Ummm...so let's say you upload a couple of private photos from a strip club on Facebook. They were meant to be private, but unfortunately, technically they weren't. Now, I do some googling and I find out that I can view these photos from a couple of unique URLs. Now, I have two options:
1) Just tell you so that you can remove these photos and you alone will benefit from it.
2) Bring this to light so that, everyone like you who have posted their private photos will benefit from it.
Now, what is the best way for me to bring it to light? Contact Facebook?? Yeah, it's a good shot, but Facebook will probably do everything to suppress that this incident even occurred.
So, the only way for me to prove that I DID gain access to your private photos is by proving everyone that I Just did. And that is by posting this info somewhere that will gain media attention.
Now, a couple of points to note here:
I did NOT hack into Facebook.
I did NOT threaten you to provide me those photos.
I just took what was available already and posted it to another online medium, so this will be brought to light.
So, now, please tell me, how was my INTENTION malicious? My intention was good. It's not like I sold your photos and made a ton of money. I actually fought for your privacy and now I'm labelled a Villian. Great!
- smsm42 14y agoThere wasn't "a couple of private photos". If Facebook protected it with a random key, and you noticed the key generator was flawed so knowing I live in, say, Montana you could bruteforce this generator in 3 days, and you wrote a script that indeed in three days bruteforced the key - yes, it would be "hacking Facebook". And if you took these photos and 100K of other photos and, saying nothing to facebook or me, went to the press - yes, it would expose you to criminal charges. If you intention was good, you would have stopped with one photo and notified facebook and/or myself and you would not write a tool to harvest and keep 100K of them. Creating and using such tool is what got them into trouble, not visiting some page or discovering some flaw. If you see neighbors door is open, you're not criminal. If you go in and go through personal possessions, because the door was open - you are. Selling has nothing to do with this - if you use it not for money but for lulz it's still the same. The evil is not in the money - the evil is in going where you do not belong and taking things that are not yours to take.