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by webvictim 10y ago
WhatsApp would never accept that. Their brand is a ton better than Messenger's is, for good reason.
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by webvictim 10y ago
The Facebook app on Android actually works fine without any special permissions. If you disable them all via the new methods in Marshmallow, it just continues trucking on. Of course they'll never stop asking for the extra permissions,
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by webvictim 11y ago
Is gathering up the credentials of employees not also a privacy violation? At this point you're going way beyond proving that you have access to something - you're actively trying to probe and see how deep the rabbit hole goes. I
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by webvictim 12y ago
> a fashion accessory which happens to be functional. You just summed up the iPhone as a whole, I think.
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by webvictim 12y ago
I wouldn't say Facebook and Twitter are competitors. Their models are quite different. - Facebook's complex privacy vs Twitter's binary "public or private" - Facebook's real names vs Twitter's @usernames -
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by webvictim 12y ago
What about the Google Nexus line? They're neither very expensive devices nor crappy and underpowered. The entire Nexus line has proven that there's a demand for decent hardware at a non top-end price out there. It's especiall
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by webvictim 13y ago
Using a bug to post to said founder's page against his will is definitely not white hat behaviour. Period.
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by webvictim 13y ago
It's still a violation of privacy though, and these are viewed as serious by the ToS.
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by webvictim 13y ago
Facebook really doesn't need to save $10k by not paying this guy. It's about upholding the terms and not setting a precedent. The blackhat market for Facebook exploits is not huge because the product is centrally controlled and ca
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by webvictim 13y ago
He didn't try to reproduce the bug with a test account though. If he had and it hadn't worked, the fact that he then used a real account would've been acceptable.
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by webvictim 13y ago
I'd suggest that exploits for Facebook wouldn't actually sell that well on the black market. There's only one install of Facebook in the world and it's controlled centrally so can be patched at any time. It's not li
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by webvictim 13y ago
Embarrassment is a very relative thing - it looks to me like the majority of comments on this HN post are saying the guy was in the wrong for breaking the TOS and I have to say I agree. Facebook haven't been embarrassed, they've j
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by webvictim 13y ago
In that case, crowdsourcing a way to pay this guy $5k for the vulnerability he found and abused would be counterintuitive.
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by webvictim 13y ago
You would prove nothing other than that crime pays.
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by webvictim 13y ago
I hope that any credible hacker would be able to realise that to get paid for a white hat vulnerability, you have to use it in a white hat way - i.e. show your working in accordance with the security team's guidelines. Deliberately pos
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by webvictim 13y ago
I don't think there's a rigid bar to judge them by, though - nobody else has had this much data in one place before. There are best practices and things that one might deem "sensible" or "fair" but they're
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by webvictim 13y ago
I think that Facebook has a social duty to set the bar in terms of what is acceptable to do with this wealth of user data. Never before has there been one place that has so much detailed information about so many people - with great power c
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by webvictim 13y ago
I would suggest that the noise from associating free-typed tags (subject to spelling errors and without a user account attached) with photos would be way higher than the signal you'd gain. I even have irritating friends that tag people
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by webvictim 13y ago
If you don't want to use the service, nobody says you have to. Facebook having your name and phone number doesn't actually mean anything until you sign up and so if you never do, the situation doesn't change.
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by webvictim 13y ago
Facebook uses CDNs; how is it not complicated in the way you describe for them too?
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by webvictim 13y ago
That 16% must all have been on my way to/from work then. I swear not one of those idiots actually paid attention to the lights.
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by webvictim 13y ago
Sounds like you had a truly sucky experience. I'm sorry to hear about that.