Blatant interference
March 21, 2011 11:36 PM Subscribe
Internet provider in tunisia stealing Facebook identities Translation from the description: when connecting to Facebook, an unnamed internet provider in Tunisia introduces a JavaScript snipped on the login form that copies the username and password introduced by the user in the form through a HTTP request to a non-existing account.
Since requests to non-existing URLs are refused by Facebook, this identifies the culprit as the internet provider who can search their HTTP proxy log files for the special URL.
This post was deleted for the following reason: This appears to be a couple months out of date info -- mathowie
Mods - this is stale information. The Tunisians stopped doing this.
posted by w0mbat at 1:04 AM on March 22, 2011
posted by w0mbat at 1:04 AM on March 22, 2011
Damn, and I was hoping somebody could translate that translation for me.
posted by UbuRoivas at 2:34 AM on March 22, 2011
posted by UbuRoivas at 2:34 AM on March 22, 2011
Ubu: The ISP is injecting HTML into facebook pages that has javascript in it. Javascript is a language that's used to make pages interactive (for example, the live preview at the bottom of the page).
Since the javascript looks like it's comming from facebook, the browsers of people using it will run it as if it came directly from facebook, meaning it has access to your credentials. It can pass those credentials on to 3rd parties.
posted by delmoi at 3:16 AM on March 22, 2011
Since the javascript looks like it's comming from facebook, the browsers of people using it will run it as if it came directly from facebook, meaning it has access to your credentials. It can pass those credentials on to 3rd parties.
posted by delmoi at 3:16 AM on March 22, 2011
But surely this would only affect people logging onto their facebook through that ISP, or if the facebook pages were somehow routed via that ISP, right?
posted by UbuRoivas at 3:52 AM on March 22, 2011
posted by UbuRoivas at 3:52 AM on March 22, 2011
But surely this would only affect people logging onto their facebook through that ISP, or if the facebook pages were somehow routed via that ISP, right?
Yeah. But when you have a monopoly, or oligopoly it's not hard to accomplish.
posted by delmoi at 4:21 AM on March 22, 2011
Yeah. But when you have a monopoly, or oligopoly it's not hard to accomplish.
posted by delmoi at 4:21 AM on March 22, 2011
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