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Re:Facebook to fight Belgian ban on tracking users, and even... by mattkevan on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @11:17AM (#19501699)
He also had zero compunction hacking the email accounts of Harvard student newspaper journalists back in the day [0]. Is it any surprise Facebook is what it is today?

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/how-mark-zuckerberg-hacked-i...

Interestingly, he did it by recording failed sign-in attempts, seeing if any of the journalists appeared in the logs, then trying the passwords out on their email accounts.

Maybe Facebook's recently-announced log of 600m+ passwords was a feature not a bug...

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Re:Facebook to fight Belgian ban on tracking users, and even... by saluki on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @11:40AM (#19501997)
y, the social network is a great movie. Even if it isn't 100% accurate it's an amazing story and fun to watch.

The recording failed sign ins to harvest the journalist's passwords always intrigued me. It does make you think when you see they are recently logging passwords.

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