Denial-of-Service Attack Against Facebook
Just claim the person is dead. All you need to do is fake an online obituary.
Just claim the person is dead. All you need to do is fake an online obituary.
Hugo • January 9, 2013 7:19 AM
Looks like you’re probably still alive.
Jacson Querubin • January 9, 2013 7:39 AM
I hope people discover that’s all this “social” sites is just a waste of time… go live..
=)
they live?
stvs • January 9, 2013 9:09 AM
Someone has to post it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sh8mNjeuyV4
brown • January 9, 2013 9:27 AM
@Hugo:
Your web site also thinks Gordon Brown is dead: http://www.isxdead.com/person/18016/Gordon%20Brown
cassiel • January 9, 2013 10:49 AM
Another technique, reported a week or two ago, is to create a new Facebook group, add the intended target as administrator, and then post material which contravenes Facebook’s terms and conditions. Voila: all administrative accounts for the group are disabled.
Rusty • January 9, 2013 11:09 AM
All the experimental indications are that you only need an obit with a vaguely similar name. No need to fake, just google. Maybe they’ll tighten it a bit now, but it appears this has been an open issue since at least 2009.
Dave • January 9, 2013 12:34 PM
Dave
wiredog • January 9, 2013 12:57 PM
Given that Rusty hardly ever posts to his own website, it was probably easy to fake his death.
I hope they have safeguards against repeated attacks.
Andre DeMarre • January 10, 2013 6:11 PM
This isn’t new:
http://jeremiahgrossman.blogspot.com/2011/03/robert-rsnake-hansen-age-34-has-passed.html
Two years ago internet security researcher Robert Hansen, aka RSnake, announced he would leave the web app sec research scene and stop blogging. His peers performed this same attack to “memorialize” his Facebook persona.
relevant. Elvis is alive!
http://www.isxdead.com/person/10783/Elvis%20Presley
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Halo • January 9, 2013 6:50 AM
Or find someone with an identical name to that on an actual obituary.