Re:Instagram's Million Dollar Bug
by sangnoir on Friday December 18, 2015 @11:52AM
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If we are disagreeing, I don't quite follow your argument - I never said that this was the worst/scariest thing Facebook could to do (there's no upper limit). What I meant was that the action by Facebook was intended to intimidate (and not that the specific form of intimidation was the worst possible)
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We're not disagreeing. I think your interpretation of tptacek's subtext is the same as mine.
In some of his posts, he has been, however, comparing the researcher's dump to criminal activity -- something I am not in disagreement with.
His implication that calling the researcher's boss is a sensible approach to intimidating the researcher for potentially criminal activity -- that in particular seems like a stretch if he's being truly objective.