I have to imagine that the breach wasn't restricted to the index page only. I've heard others got profile.php, and I would imagine that some might get their kicks by releasing the index code and getting some street cred, while working the darker arts on deeper code. Whatever the real story, some poor schmuck is having a completely crappy shortened weekend.
azzam
· 2 years ago
There is nothing special or unique for you to see here, just the working framework for a php built site. Most of them are command functions to call other commands into the homepage.
Do not get overwhelmed because you saw it on techcrunch or mashable. Facebook itself started on an open source platform and evolved. The facebook clones that are out there are not any genius inside leak, it just a coder studying the function of facebook and similar CMS and putting it together. Damn you can buy a facebook clone for about $200 and modify yourself to perform better! I could get facebooks coding if I wanted to!
This is nothing but a tech glitch that need not have Zuckerberg’s weekend ruined! Facebook is not popular because of its coding.
pf0t0n
· 2 years ago
This is reflective of a massive 2.0 problem ~ and now we are beginning to see the ramifications of poor security. It's not jus a Facebook problem (or even a MySpace problem) but cuts accross the board of our industry. OpenID has been exposed among many, many others. The suggestion that they hire a security expert for PR purposes exposes the joke and mindless attempt to provide pr cover while not dealing with the problem. This costs us ultimately in future funding for countless other sites. Wake uf folks - this problem is a massive problem for a number os sites.
Flexy
· 2 years ago
i wish a cms takes this and hooks the rest of the world up. wasn't that mark zuckerburgs plan after all, too hooks us all up?
Zaiaku
· 2 years ago
So how long is it going to take before someone is able to seriously exploit this. A few number of sites have done this before.
Manny
· 2 years ago
FacebookSOURCE.com has a lot of other scripts, hacks, and tricks for Facebook, as well as other links to Facebook’s Homepage script incase this one goes offline.
victoria jones
· 2 years ago
-- This is nothing but a tech glitch that need not have Zuckerberg’s weekend ruined! Facebook is not popular because of its coding. - Azzam --
Hmmm, maybe in blogland, but in the real world it will depend if a paper has a quiet day this week and then they run the story "FACEBOOK HACKED, YOUR PRIVATE DETAILS AT RISK!" or something equally appealing and shocking to the normal readership who might not have signed up yet.
Only this week on the radio I heard a national presenter say he was on Myspace, but has not signed up to Facebook as he has heard that they are a bit suspect. (this to 4 million listeners because of the BNP advertising).
People don't give a monkey about code, they do avoid sites that may violate their perception of privacy or make money from Nazi sympathisers. That's two for facebook, I bet a sex case is being lined up next. They always say any publicity is good publicity, but paedophilia and racism is the exception.
Jason Timm
· 2 years ago
Since when are the stories about MySpace and pedophiles blown out of proportion???
Thousands of pedophiles are still on their network and kids have been hurt by that fact. I have to cringe each time I hear someone say that it's really no big deal. Has your child ever been bullied, stalked, or raped from a creep on MySpace?
GROU.PS - Latuminggi
· 5 months ago
Oh my God, this is what I want to see.. It sounds great! :D
GROU.PS - Latuminggi
· 5 months ago
Oh my God, this is what I want to see.. It sounds great! :D
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Do not get overwhelmed because you saw it on techcrunch or mashable. Facebook itself started on an open source platform and evolved. The facebook clones that are out there are not any genius inside leak, it just a coder studying the function of facebook and similar CMS and putting it together. Damn you can buy a facebook clone for about $200 and modify yourself to perform better! I could get facebooks coding if I wanted to!
This is nothing but a tech glitch that need not have Zuckerberg’s weekend ruined! Facebook is not popular because of its coding.
Hmmm, maybe in blogland, but in the real world it will depend if a paper has a quiet day this week and then they run the story "FACEBOOK HACKED, YOUR PRIVATE DETAILS AT RISK!" or something equally appealing and shocking to the normal readership who might not have signed up yet.
Only this week on the radio I heard a national presenter say he was on Myspace, but has not signed up to Facebook as he has heard that they are a bit suspect. (this to 4 million listeners because of the BNP advertising).
People don't give a monkey about code, they do avoid sites that may violate their perception of privacy or make money from Nazi sympathisers. That's two for facebook, I bet a sex case is being lined up next. They always say any publicity is good publicity, but paedophilia and racism is the exception.
Thousands of pedophiles are still on their network and kids have been hurt by that fact. I have to cringe each time I hear someone say that it's really no big deal. Has your child ever been bullied, stalked, or raped from a creep on MySpace?