• Facebook hacking student jailed
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[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-17079853[/url]
[quote]"You accessed the very heart of the system of an international business of massive size, so this was not just fiddling about in the business records of some tiny business of no great importance," he said.[/quote] yeah why not go hack some tiny business of no great importance
He had access for 2 months and Facebook isn't trashed? He definitely doesn't seem like the menace to society that judge paints him as.
way to go court for defamation of character
[quote]Facebook spent $200,000 (£126,400) dealing with Mangham's crime, [/quote] oh no he made them spent 1/4 of the millions of dollars facebook has give him lethal injection
Way to go Facebook. Ruin a mans life because he just wanted to help you with improving your secruity. But then again... why would people hack in the first place no matter what their intentions are.
[QUOTE=lionheart1066;34758111]Way to go Facebook. Ruin a mans life because he just wanted to help you with improving your secruity. But then again... why would people hack in the first place no matter what their intentions are.[/QUOTE] To show that it can be done and to get people to do stuff about it before malicious people do it and cause actual damage.
[quote]Mangham had ultimately stolen "invaluable" intellectual property, which he downloaded on to an external hard drive, said Mr Patel.[/quote] I would love to hear about what kind of intellectual property a social networking site has.
I do not feel sorry for Facebook loosing 200,000 dollars over this. Its like dropping a penny to the ground for them.
[QUOTE=Black;34758452]I do not feel sorry for Facebook loosing 200,000 dollars over this. Its like dropping a penny to the ground for them.[/QUOTE] I see no reason why it would cost that much in the first place.. I think it's a huge exaggeration.
[QUOTE=@@;34759122]I see no reason why it would cost that much in the first place.. I think it's a huge exaggeration.[/QUOTE] Surely they have their own programmers already in employment, just tell them to do their jobs and patch the problem. In theory it wouldn't cost a penny above their normal wages.
Wow, wait a minute... I thought Facebook rewarded people who found and reported exploits in their system? I'm guessing that he either didn't report them. Or Facebook is going against what it once said.
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