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Re:How I could have hacked any Facebook account by CiPHPerCoder on Tuesday March 08, 2016 @09:04PM (#11250357)
Your comments make sense in the real world, where the big threat is "criminal enterprise looking to make an illicit buck".

I worry that people are too obsessed about the hypothetical specter of tremendously skilled and bored black-hats who will ruin lives for fun, rather than for a pay-off, e.g. ZF0.

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Re:How I could have hacked any Facebook account by nemothekid on Wednesday March 09, 2016 @12:11AM (#11251055)
>* hypothetical specter of tremendously skilled and bored black-hats who will ruin lives for fun*

I'd assume having $15k to spend is a lot more fun than any enjoyment one could have by hacking someone's facebook account.

You'd have to have a real vendetta against someone to value ruining their life at $15k.

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Re:How I could have hacked any Facebook account by mschuster91 on Wednesday March 09, 2016 @04:11AM (#11251823)
> You'd have to have a real vendetta against someone to value ruining their life at $15k.

15k is actually cheap when compared with the costs of a private eye, a biker gang or a contract killer.

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Re:How I could have hacked any Facebook account by brbsix on Wednesday March 09, 2016 @02:38AM (#11251472)
For a political hit, $15k might be a very reasonable valuation.
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Re:How I could have hacked any Facebook account by CiPHPerCoder on Wednesday March 09, 2016 @01:34PM (#11254765)
> You'd have to have a real vendetta against someone to value ruining their life at $15k.

You're thinking about it wrong. There is no opportunity cost in their worldview, just lulz to be had at the expense of people they deem worthy of ruination.

(I never said the people that live in the intersection of trolls and blackhats are great at financial or career planning, after all.)

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