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Born in design, raised in code, entangled in cybersecurity.
Born in design, raised in code, entangled in cybersecurity.
A random reference would be the book “Dissecting the hack: the f0rb1dd3n network” by Jason E Street.
In chapter 5, two of my meanwhile abandoned red team software tools – “Lognamer” and “IEClean” – are part of the story.
Credits – Copy at web.archive.org
Another random reference example would be worldwide press references from 2019, which were published after I noticed Facebook’s security misconduct and after I publically kicked Facebook via Twitter.
What I had discovered was that Facebook demanded the personal password of the user’s email provider for “some” users upon account registration. It was practically a “hand over the password of your email provider or you don’t get a Facebook account” situation, which allowed Facebook to gain full access to the individual user’s email provider. This was unacceptable from both a security as well as a privacy perspective.
The misconduct I exposed turned out to have had an impact on millions of people worldwide, It did not only affect all those who decided to register for a Facebook account, but also all of their email contacts – no matter if those contacts used Facebook themselves or not.
The according echos in the internetional press (listed in no particular order) speak for themselves…
Facebook Demanded User Email Passwords
Article – Copy at web.archive.org
Now Facebook is asking for your email’s password if you want to use the site
Article – Copy at web.archive.org
Facebook asked some users for their email passwords, because why not
Article – Copy at web.archive.org
Facebook is asking some new users for their email passwords and appears to be harvesting their contacts without consent
Article – Copy at web.archive.org
Facebook says it “unintentionally uploaded” 1.5 million people‘s email contacts without their consent
Article – Copy at web.archive.org
Facebook uploaded email contacts of 1.5m users without consent
Article – Copy at web.archive.org
Facebook Is Just Casually Asking Some New Users for Their Email Passwords
Article – Copy at web.archive.org
Facebook backs away from asking for some users’ email passwords
Article – Copy at web.archive.org
Facebook Forces Users to Give Email Password (wait, what?)
Article – Copy at web.archive.org
With No Permission, Facebook Slurped up ‘Hundreds of Millions‘ of Email Contacts
Article – Copy at web.archive.org
Another scandal: Facebook user data reportedly at risk again
Article – Copy at web.archive.org
Facebook under fire for casually asking users to hand over their email passwords
Article – Copy at web.archive.org
Facebook will no longer ask for your email passwords
Article – Copy at web.archive.org
‘Beyond Sketchy’: Facebook Demanding Some New Users’ Email Passwords
Article – Copy at web.archive.org
Facebook Wrongfully Gathered Email Contacts From 1.5 Million
Article – Copy at web.archive.org
Want a new Facebook account? Just hand over your private email password
Article – Copy at web.archive.org
Facebook Says 1.5 Million Users Impacted in New Email Privacy Scandal
Article – Copy at web.archive.org
Facebook copied email contacts of 1.5 million users
Article – Copy at web.archive.org
Poll: Facebook Harvests Email Contacts for 1.5M Users – Is Enough, Enough?
Article – Copy at web.archive.org
Facebook Password, Email Contact Mishandling Worsens
Article – Copy at web.archive.org
Facebook apparently asking for your email passwords for verification
Article – Copy at web.archive.org
Facebook “unintentionally” uploaded 1.5 million email contacts
Article – Copy at web.archive.org
Facebook stopt met verificatie via wachtwoord van e-mailadressen
Article – Copy at web.archive.org
Facebook demande les mots de passe des adresses mail à ses nouveaux membres
Article – Copy at web.archive.org
Facebook krevde passordet til epost fra nye brukere: – En horribel praksis
Article – Copy at web.archive.org
Facebook demande le mot de passe du compte email aux nouveaux utilisateurs
Article – Copy at web.archive.org
Facebook verlangt Mail-Passwort von einigen Nutzern
Article – Copy at web.archive.org
Facebook fragte Nutzer nach Passwort für ihr E-Mail Konto
Article – Copy at web.archive.org
540 millones de registros de usuarios de Facebook expuestos en servidores mal configurados
Article – Copy at web.archive.org
Facebook chiede la password della mail ad alcuni utenti, poi ammette che è stata una pessima idea
Article – Copy at web.archive.org
Every now and then, something I said or wrote is cited. Here’s a random example…
Hackers Succeed in NASA Mission, Lifting Thousands of Employee Records
Article – Copy at web.archive.org
Using your favorite search engine, you should be able to find ample more references that covered me for various things over the past decades. I refrained from listing them all because there are simply too many of them out there.