He cancelled his plans to hack Mark Zuckerberg page, instead he filed a report to facebook.com/whitehat<p><a href="https://twitter.com/phwd/status/1045674238751969280" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/phwd/status/1045674238751969280</a>
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/robots.tx/posts/1198980273583188" rel="nofollow">https://www.facebook.com/robots.tx/posts/1198980273583188</a>
"A white-hat hacker is promising to livestream his bid to hack into Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook account on Sunday (30th September). " That isn't white hat...
Oh, gosh. What a way to make sure this doesn't succeed.<p>You don't announce ahead of time you are doing something like this. You livestream it for maximum gotcha and shock value, make a tape of it and then have that go viral after you pulled off this wizardry.<p>This is like announcing you plan to break into Fort Knox on X date. Hello?!
I tried see the link to the "hacker"'s Facebook in the article and i got a "page not available", so probably there won't be a livestream from his account.....with 26000+, ah sorry, 0 followers
Something weird happened to me when I opened <a href="https://www.facebook.com/robots.tx/posts/1198980273583188" rel="nofollow">https://www.facebook.com/robots.tx/posts/1198980273583188</a><p>After opening the page I hit the back button and was automatically logged out from FB. I was logged in when I opened the page initially. Anyone experienced the same?
I think we all know what this was about now:<p>Facebook Network Breach Impacts Up to 50M Users
<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18094823" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18094823</a>
Ha, he probably wanted FB’s attention and got it. Not sure about his hacking skills but great marketing tactic :) many hackers have claimed that fb doesn’t reply or follow through on their bug findings let alone pay for it.
Stuck at the pop-up page, just no. There are now so many sites where you have to agree with over 300 companies and their terms to track you for ads... How about finding another business model? This is beyond annoying.
Likely to clone Zuck’s profile and delete that, with people rushing to FB and finding out it was a joke.<p>Or perhaps delete Zuck’s profile from his friended connections, maybe replacing the connection with a fake.