Facebook removes fake Halimah Yacob account

Yahoo Singapore

18 December 2015

ricky l3 minutes ago

Fake websites can be easily done - almost within minutes.

The trick is - where will the hacker host this fake websites.

If hosted in servers - whereby service providers will cooperate to release the account credential of this hacker - he can be caught very easily because network information will trace to him :-

(1) Eg. URL - and the corresponding public IP address - through DNS resolution.

(2) the hacker account credential to log in to the blog server that host his fake web page.

• ricky l2 seconds ago

  If service provider refuse to cooperate to release the hacker account credential - of course not able to arrest him because his fake website could be hidden behind firewall, encrypted by IPsec VPN or behind proxies.

  
  

  Then the public IP address of the service provider firewall interface, IPsec VPN interface or Proxy interface ---- will be the last stop that police can trace up to.

  
  

  
  
• ricky l2 seconds ago

  Behind the firewall, VPN IPsec and Proxy interface - could be internal private IP address due to NAT (Network Address Translation) --- and there is no way the police will know this IP address - without the help of service provider to help to trace to the hacker.

• ricky l2 seconds ago

  Normally application program that are compiled into object codes to run as executable files - will have no issue - because hackers are not able to get the source code, amend it and fake the programs.

  
  

  But unfortunately, html webpage - cannot be compiled into object codes. Thus hackers can easily copy the source code of the html and run it - and it will look exactly like the official webpage.

• ricky l2 seconds ago

  So just wondering - why html and xml developer not used the compilation of object code concept to develop web pages - so that the source code is not exposed.

  
  

  This will cut down the easy creation of html and xml fake websites by hackers.

Kumar8 hours ago

are u an idiot?

ricky l1 second ago

Object code such as executable file are binary files and cannot be edited by hackers to redirect input into the hacker database.

Thus if html and xml webpage can be compiled into object code or executable file or binary files - then hackers can't see its source code, edit it and will be of no use.

Currently, html and xml source code seems to be exposed and can be copied, edit and reproduce.

• ricky l2 seconds ago

  In this case, as the hacker is posting a fake webpage in the facebook, he will need an account to login to the facebook and post the webpages.

  
  

  I think this hacker account credential will be easily established if facebook provide the account credential.