Re: Real, fake, or prank, reminder: Facebook is public

["Alex Eckelberry" <AlexE () sunbelt-software com>]

Well, her profile was changed to Public and her unique name was changed
to JesusLust, and then the post occurred.  So it's pretty clear she was
hacked.  Looking at her profile page, it's mundane stuff until the
embarassing post.  

-----Original Message-----
From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org]
On Behalf Of Thomas M Carlsson
Sent: Sunday, August 23, 2009 4:46 AM
To: funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: Re: [funsec] Real, fake, or prank, reminder: Facebook is public

Alex Eckelberry wrote:
> Actually, I checked into this.  It's real, and her account was hacked 
> (she didn't post it).

If she made the post public by accident, however, would it not be
possible that she could go to great lengths to limit damage to her
reputation (e.g. blame an account hack, computer backdoor, etc)?

Seems to me like it's a difficult one to verify one way or another
unless the post was obviously made from another IP/ISP etc.

Having said that, giving the user the benefit of the doubt is probably
the right - or at least the polite - thing to do :-)

Thomas

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