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Comment by azhenley | Hacker News Reader

This seems like an easy thing for FB to make “undeletable”.

Zuckerberg's profile is already "special." It's known that no one can block his profile, and I wouldn't be surprised if there's other stuff as well.

https://qz.com/1066804/facebook-fb-wont-let-you-block-mark-z...

That doesn't mean that this guy doesn't know about that or found a way that bypasses those application-level checks. After all, he could always just issue delete statements on the database through some SQL injection or something.

Perhaps this is where the hack is? Maybe he can ONLY hack zucks page due to its unique setup...

you can block Zuckerberg. I had already blocked Zuckerberg and just blocked Chan to see if I could.

This changed in the past year, I believe.

I think his account is special in also the sense that he has two usernames: mark and zuck. I don't think any other Facebook account has that.

So it then means that http://facebook.com/mark redirects to http://facebook.com/zuck just as http://facebook.com/4 does...

Zuckerberg would go to IT "hi guys, make a backup of my account every second and restore immediately after it is deleted, thx."

I don’t feel like Mark Zuckerberg’s account is continuously updated with crucial information. Probably updating it once every hour or two would be sufficient.

This sounds funny. You talk like a commedian. Any way to favorite this?

Seems smarter to let him do it, and watch how, with a hot backup ready for when he is done, or gone too far. Why leave this guy his 0day? So he can try again on other equally juicy targets? Using zucks is a relatively benign but powerful POC.

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