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Deleting Facebook Albums Without Permission Hackaday[Laxman] was poking around Facebook looking for security vulnerabilities. Facebook runs a bug bounty program which means if you can find a vulnerability that’s serious enough it can earn you cold hard cash. It didn’t take much for [Laxman] to find one worthy of a bounty.The graph API is the primary way for Facebook apps to read and write to the Facebook social graph. Many apps use this API but there are limitations to what it can do. For example the API is unable to delete user comment pirater un compte facebook sans payer s’ photo albums. At least it’s not supposed to be able too. [Laxman] decided to test this claim himself.He started by sending a command to delete one of his own albums using a graph explorer access token. His request was denied. The application didn’t have the correct permissions to be able to perform that action. It seemed that Facebook was correct…View original post 200 more wordsClick to show you appreciate indivualism art education and in social justicePrintSound CloudTweetShare on TumblrPocketEmailLike this:Like Loading...