I created a dumby facebook account to get ahold of some friends who dont use email. After about a week facebook gave me an ultimatum, give them my phone number or upload a color picture of my drivers license. I decided to say good bye to facebook.
What you did is expressly against the terms of use of Facebook. It's for real people, real businesses, etc.. They were just trying to verify you're a real person, possibly your account was reported by someone as being fake.
>What you did is expressly against the terms of use of Facebook.
Yeah, I think we all know that. It doesn't mean that we're going to agree with them. Yes they were in "the right" by booting him, but that doesn't make it any less of a shitty policy.
>It's for real people, real businesses, etc..
Yep, wouldn't want to add any noise to that delicious advertiser signal!
This won't work in this case, since the verification code is emailed to the number as an SMS message ([email protected]), which Google Voice numbers do not support.
Why would anyone try to figure something like this out? I don't think any real hackers are going around trying to figure out how to kill people, they want money or something else of value (not to say a life doesn't have value).
Why as a community are we allowing things like this to happen, even worse, publicizing them and acting like its 733t and impressive. If something like this happened at anything other than the 'Black hat' security conference this wouldn't be alright.
People figure these things out because it's fun. Simple as that. It's the same motivation behind me hacking the various bits of hardware sitting around me, including a number of health-related devices. It's simple curiosity, and sometimes that leads down a path of "well, if I could do this, what could a malicious actor do?" Sometimes that answer isn't a good one.
Research like this is really important. For all we know this type of hacking may already have been used to assasinate someone.
Now that this is public there will be a huge pressure on the manufacturer to secure their devices as quickly as possible. If this hadn't been released, there would have been no pressure on the manufacturer to fix it and the assasins could theoretically proceed undetected for a long time.
Unfortunately it seems that sometimes too much information leads to apathy, if we know all the problems of the world our ability to affect change in any single one seems diminished. Maybe it would be better to know less and focus on that instead.
This is the wrong conclusion. Yes, there's a lot more information out there now. It's a noisier environment. Yes, that can lead to information overload, which can lead to apathy and short-termism.
But the challenge isn't in knowing which sources to "turn off." It's in knowing which sources to trust and to emphasize over the others. It's in separating the signal from the noise. But on the balance, it's generally a good thing that we've got more information rather than less.
With PHP you can create the headers at the top of the page, with python you can create a 'script' that sends custom headers to a server, thus you could tell the server that its a image via the headers but it could be something different ie a script... Any good developer will look out for this stuff though.
That's because it's totally optional, and anyone who doesn't like it can stick with the default. I'd wager that if they switched the main site tomorrow, there would be some negative feedback.
