Facebook mass hack last month was so totally overblown – only 30 million people affected Facebook users can relax and get back to interacting with quality content and authentic individuals on the social network. Last month's deliberate theft of private account records from the internet giant, initially believed to affect 50 million or maybe 90 million accounts, turns out to be nowhere near that bad. Cough. On …
It's a nice idea but that smacks (slang for heroin) already in the veins of the poor users.
Examples.
Lets say you have 20 real life friends that you interact with outside facebook and 300 friends (I use that term very loosely) you interact with on facebook are you going to shelve all those interactions or are you going to stick with it for fear of losing out on something? You know, like a wedding, a new baby, what the weather is like or how one of your friends has had a public breakdown over their ex? There's also the fear factor that if you delete your account you may bump into to someone and have to explain why. What reason do you give to a current smack user?
Therefore Facebook can't shut down as there would be uproar. Plus the governments love facebook as it allows them to manipulate and monitor all the citizens.
I wonder how many Facebook users would go through serious withdrawal symptoms if Facebook closed. It makes one think about the level of conditioning that Internet addicts are subjected to by all these Facebook privacy incidents and security breaches.
Something's not adding up.
These so-called "hackers" had users access tokens but used that power to just grab some identities of some users and the FBI is telling Facebook to keep mum about who the hackers may be?
I don't know, but every "hack" I've seen is always after fast money. Always!
I've seen fileless rootkits that used Powershell and Wscript to exploit a box only to try and make a quick buck from fraudulent clicks on advertiser links hidden from the user or the myriad of cyryptomining schemes or encrypted hacks hidden in stego'd .PNG images to illicit an ill gotten advertising dollar.
This latest Facebook gaff seems to be devoid of any of the normal money making hacks and almost appears (from FB own reports) to be a targeted search for idententies that could have been gathered much easier with just a Facebook Developer account and a dodgy Android app.
Also, Facebook decided to double the time it takes to (supposedly) delete a FB account from 14 days to 30 just after this hack.
Something seems off about this whole thing.
Please change your password, email address, home address, name and last name, date of birth, parents, spouse, children, job, education, and if you've posted photos, please contact a reputable surgeon to change your face as well, and whenever acceptable, gender.
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