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It's Trivially Easy to Hack into Anybody's Myspace Account (vice.com)
If you are one of the almost half a billion people who at some point used to be on Myspace, the hottest social network of the early 2000s, you should know that almost anyone can hack into your account. From a report: Myspace offers a mechanism to recover an account for people who have lost access to their old associated email address. A security researcher has discovered that it's relatively easy to abuse this mechanism to hack into anyone's account. All a wannabe hacker needs is the target's full name, username, and date of birth. Security researcher Leigh-Anne Galloway disclosed the vulnerability on Monday. She says she informed Myspace about the vulnerability almost three months ago and the site hasn't acknowledged or fixed it.
That site still exists?
The locomotives of Lake Chamberlain Logging and Paper Company, Maine have absolutely no security and they are sitting there in the jungle clearing for any one to come in ride away (after raising steam and laying the railroad)
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
Yeah - I doubt they even have enough data on anyone to ask for more information than the above. Short of questions like "What where you doing on Jan 12 2002". Heck, even that they might not have.
From my memory of every time I visited someone's myspace page back in the day, it was 1) wait for site to load 2) mute the 4-10 songs that the myspace user set to autoplayed 3) wait for whatever 3rd party skin the myspace user decided to use loaded 4) hit the force close button because my browser just locked up.
Convince me why this might be better than GeoCities.
in 10 years. Keep that in mind as you post on it.
What will Zuckerberg do with all that information when he is getting desperate?
Beavis: Yea?
Butthead: He used his real date of birth on his MySpace account
Beavis: What a dumbass, heh heh.
Butthead: Heh heh heh heh heh heh. What's MySpace?
We'll make great pets
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