How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking

Re:How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking by wallywax on Monday August 06, 2012 @10:14PM (#4348339)

I can just imagine the HN article when someone tries to delete his Facebook account because he disagrees with some new feature, and they won't do it for 48 hours. I've been on the receiving end of "DELETE MY ACCOUNT!!!1!!1" requests, and I know those people wouldn't respond well to "wait two days or pay up."

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Re:How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking by saalweachter on Monday August 06, 2012 @10:50PM (#4348430)

Can you delete your Facebook account instantly? When I deleted mine, it went into limbo for like two weeks before being permanently deleted. (I don't remember if there was no option for instant-delete, or if I just didn't care to.)

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Re:How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking by kmm on Monday August 06, 2012 @11:21PM (#4348538)

Facebook doesn't even allow you to delete your account. If a site were to remove the account from the public view, but delay the actual deleting by a few days (I'd prefer a week or more actually), you wouldn't notice the difference unless you were malicious. But I don't understand what the money is for actually.

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Re:How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking by columbo on Tuesday August 07, 2012 @03:47PM (#4351889)

> I don't understand what the money is for actually.

I was thinking about remote storage and devices. For example, a backpack is stolen with your phone/tablet/laptop and you need to issue a wipe to it NOW before they are compromised.

Requiring a credit card at least leaves a paper trail of some sort.

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