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For the seriousness of this bug 12k doesn't seem like much to me. I don't know if I would turn it in for that little. With my personal dislike of facebook, th
by legohead 12y ago
For the seriousness of this bug 12k doesn't seem like much to me. I don't know if I would turn it in for that little. With my personal dislike of facebook, the alternative is so very, very tempting..
- tptacek 12y agoThat alternative being...
- o_____________o 12y agoRuining his aunt's birthday memories? It would ultimately be the hapless users who suffer in some way.
- robryan 12y agoDoubt you would do any real damage, I believe in the past it has been noted that deleting photos on Facebook won't remove the actual images from their servers. So it is likely possible that they could simply identify photos deleted in this way and restore them.
- saganus 12y agoI'm guessing the alternative he's referring to is the black market. However I'm not sure if the risk being caught is considered in this. If you can get let's say, X times more in the black market but also risk 10 or 20 or whatever years in jail as well, I'm not sure those 12.5k seem that bad. Edit: Or maybe doing extortion on someone? but how much could you get by threatening to delete someone's photos? I'm guessing not much... no?
- benmanns 12y agoShort FB, delete everyone's photos, buy FB.
- evgen 12y agoAnd then go to jail. Great plan there...
- tomjen3 12y agoOnly if you are caught _and_ they can prove you did it, which isn't likely to be easy if you launch the attack from a botnet.
- tptacek 12y agoAnd when you inevitably do get caught red handed, don't worry, because you'll have a Greek Chorus of Internet commenters making t-shirts advocating your release and writing Boing Boing articles about how you got screwed. Unless your offense involves credit cards, the celebrity might be worth the (very minimal) sentence you'll end up with.