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I'm surprised they aren't going to give him a bounty for this. I also assume they realize that most reporters will post their rejected findings soon after they
by eyeareque 12y ago
I'm surprised they aren't going to give him a bounty for this. I also assume they realize that most reporters will post their rejected findings soon after they get denied.
If enough people start using technique they will have no choice but to create a fix for this.
- vezzy-fnord 12y agohttps://www.facebook.com/whitehat https://www.facebook.com/whitehat Exclusions The following bugs are not eligible for a bounty (and we do not recommend testing for these): ... Denial of Service Vulnerabilities ... That said, they do appear to be quite hypocritical when it comes to enforcing this, as at least one user on the /r/netsec thread claimed that Facebook paid them for a mail bombing vulnerability. I guess you have to use this to attack high-profile targets (or Facebook themselves) until they notice.
- chr13 12y agoIt's not clearly stated. I think what they mean to say is DoS on Facebook using brute force mechanism as testing this would bring down the Facebook system itself. Now manipulating Facebook's server to cause the attack, that'd be different I guess.
- mattmanser 12y agoI agree with you, forcing Facebook to be your zombie of doom is very different to attempting to DoS facebook. If you can easily cause any website to become an on demand low orbit ion cannon, they're going to cause problems.
- userbinator 12y ago> If you can easily cause any website to become an on demand low orbit ion cannon You can do this with any website that lets users post links which may or may not be automatically loaded (by other users too). There are tons of these around; forums, blogs, etc. See also: Slashdot effect. That's also a true DDoS, coming from many IPs, as compared with a few of Facebook's servers.
- Artemis2 12y agoThey were probably aware of the issue, as this kind of bug has been already published for Google [1] (by the same author, it seems) a month ago. Also, Google did not give him a bounty reward for his discovery. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7371176 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7371176
- chr13 12y agoI actually found this bug first in Facebook and later in Google. Facebook said they needed time to think about this and I was hoping they would fix it, so I could not disclose this back then.
- patcheudor 12y agoJoin the club. I've reported it before as well, years ago. I even discussed it on my FB wall at one point with some tests against my own site. I never re-tested, figuring they'd take care of the issue. Guess not.
- wisty 12y agoIt doesn't really hurt Facebook.