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[–] 49 points 2 months ago

They should ask for Zuck profile login credentials.

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  • [–] 31 points 2 months ago* (2 children)

    Holy crap this is hilarious. Quick somebody steal Trump's account then message Iran that we surrender.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 months ago (7 children)

    Considering you can just… you know, do that in any of the LLM prompts in Meta apps… I really don’t think it’s the work of a “hacker”. That’s such an obnoxiously overused term.

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  • [–] 62 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    I have to disagree. Hacking is a broad term that isn't exclusive to finding buffer overflows in ghidra.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I was watching a speedrunner live stream, and just the way he thinks...

    The way speedrunners think is basically how pentesters think.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago*

    The original meaning of the word "hacking" is just "to get something to work in a way it was not meant to work".

    So the hacker mindset of finding workarounds or unforseen scenarios applies to a lot of things, not just devices and systems (such as games) but also human processes.

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  • [–] 35 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

    The majority of hacking is social engineering, so I don't really see slop hacking being any less valid than that

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago

    Cosmo Kramer doing the MoviePhone voice: “Why don’t you just give me access to High-Profile Instagram accounts”

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Ugh, meanwhile I can't change my accounts email. It demands an otp sent to an email that was deleted by the provider.

    Even though I enter the correct password, it won't let me in. And I can't change the email of my own account!

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    i have a number of clients who are locked out of a valid account, while knowing the correct password, having the correct sms capable phone number, having the correct email. these are grandma types who've never posted anything more offensive than cat pictures and knitting memes. some haven't even been able to make a new account, either. facebook support is literally non-existent unless you're a 'high profile' person.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago

    What a fucking joke

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago

    Not a hacker, but more like an asker.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago*

    We have entered the age of social engineering hacking on the dumbest imaginable support agents.

    What's there not to like.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    "Can I have access to a profile". = Hacker

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  • [–] 32 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    well, yes

    they found a vulnerability and exploited it. that's hacking.

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  • [+] -7 points 2 months ago* (2 children)

    This was not a vulnerability. This is the technical equivalent of going to a neighbor of the house you want to rob and asking them to borrow the spare key.

    They implicitly trusted the AI with no guardrails. The AI simply gave it up.

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  • [–] 25 points 2 months ago

    They implicitly trusted the AI with no guardrails.

    So, Meta released a vulnerability (an incredibly stupid one) and someone took advantage of it to gain access to an account they weren't authorised to access... which is the definition of hacking

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    Maybe don't train the data on passwords

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