I Hacked into Facebook's Legal Department Admin Panel

Re:I Hacked into Facebook's Legal Department Admin Panel by IfOnlyYouKnew on Sunday December 13, 2020 @09:45AM (#25406868)

It "isn't seen as a credible thread" because it's immoral.

Sequencing plays a major role here. And while that may seem somewhat arbitrary, it is significant.

(Similar case, that, for some reason tech people have entirely too much trouble understanding: Announce "I'm going to shoot this gun at that target". Person, having heard you, walks and stands in front of the target. Are you still allowed/morally right to shoot?)

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Re:I Hacked into Facebook's Legal Department Admin Panel by matheusmoreira on Sunday December 13, 2020 @10:19AM (#25407111)

What's immoral is allowing the company to leave the vulnerability unfixed. It's their system, their vulnerability is their responsibility. They should be glad they were contacted by a relatively harmless person and pay them a fair value for doing work they didn't even know they needed. If they refuse to fix it, the moral thing to do is to disclose it so that the company has no choice but to fix it.

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Re:I Hacked into Facebook's Legal Department Admin Panel by IfOnlyYouKnew on Sunday December 13, 2020 @09:45PM (#25412971)

thanks for proving my point?

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