On 15-Apr-09, at 9:31 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
Well - if its the same IP? Open access point say. Or a compromise of
her pc
/ laptop?
Suresh, Nisha's computer security was overseen by Karim (ex-Sarai,
Cyber Mohalla and NLS, if you know him). Karim's a sensible sysad and
thoroughly examined her working setup; even moved her to a different
computer.
Nisha called me for help last Thursday. I looked around her account,
received a warning that Facebook had just deleted an obscene image
uploaded from her account, knocked off all her Apps, just in case one
of them was an attack vector, received another warning of impending
account suspension for ToS violations, changed her password for her to
be doubly sure it was not being sniffed at her end, and agreed with
her that we would not access her account until the next morning.
The next day, her account was suspended.
I live in Bangalore. Nisha and Karim live in Delhi. Whatever the
attack vector was, it couldn't have been from the local computer or
network. It had to be upstream.
Nisha's presented her side of the story here:
http://kafila.org/2009/04/12/arise-awake-the-people-who-run-facebook/
