Zuckerberg hacked user accounts? No…
Business Insider is running a story that Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, hacked into the Facebook accounts of 2 Harvard Crimson reporters, back when it was known as Thefacebook. I especially like the sentence below…
“Then he examined a log of failed logins to see if any of the Crimson members had ever entered an incorrect password into TheFacebook.com”
Seriously? Kevin Rose raised an interesting point on TWiT the other day. In order for him to obtain the failed logins, not only would he have had to develop the site to log *every* single thing typed into the password box, but it would also mean the data was being used in clear text. I’m not a MySQL expert in any respect, but passwords stored on a server for user info are usually encrypted with an md5 hash. This not only means passwords are secure, but someone who has direct access to the MySQL database cannot simply look at user info and see the passwords.
I smell bullshit, and plenty of it.
