Calling All Hackers
Want to win a smooth and quick $100? Then the SMUG $100 Facebook Hacker Challenge is just up your alley. Although if you’re such a good hacker, why aren’t you just breaking into people’s bank accounts and stealing way more than $100? Huh? HUH?
The premise behind this challenge is that some guy said that Facebook is secure enough for most businesses to discuss shop without having to worry about what they were saying being seen by outside people. Long story short, he decided to put some money on his beliefs and created a secret group on Facebook. Anybody who can gain access to it will win $100. If you can upload a picture to the group, then you’ll get $200.
Frankly, I think it’s just a great publicity event. Promise some money if people can do something you’re confident is impossible, let a ton of other sites write about it and link back to you, and sit back and relax. I can do the same thing though. I’ll give $1 million dollars to anybody who can figure out the number I’m thinking of between 1 and 78 gazillion. See, it’s that easy.
Thanks for the link, but this isn’t a publicity stunt. It was an idea I got when I was doing a podcast interview, and was asked a typical question about the safety of Facebook groups.
I advocate using Facebook for business, and I get lots of questions about whether the data you put in Facebook secret groups are secure. I think they are, but I wanted to test it, because otherwise you just have lots of worriers raising the questions, and using the existence of the questions as an excuse not to use Facebook groups for business.
If I was 100 percent positive no one could hack this group, I would have made it a million dollar challenge. As it is, I really want to find out if someone can do it, because if they can’t (or cares enough to do it for $100), I can more confidently advocate using secret Facebook groups for business. And if someone can hack it, $100 is a relatively small price to pay to keep me (and others) from putting more valuable data at risk.
I’m glad you at least think it’s a great publicity event, though.
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