Recently I observed a rare thing in Facebook,that is my login button has faded on clicking on it.The image is below:
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But thereafter I remembered a news that blinked in my email , which said about the future attacks of the so-called hacker group Anonymous.Actually the news in a summary way are this :
''Anonymous have announced that they are going to attack on Facebook with some new type of attacks,in near future.''
We know that Facebook is neither a dumbly coded website,nor it has a bad network security professional.So the so-called "new type" of attack would not be any guessed one.
But one flaw that I recognised (and may be even you) is that after entering email-id and password in login,when you click on "Login" button,it responds same like other website i.e. wait for website to load.But actually if you click on it again,then it is sending the GET request to the server again,which is not desirable.If this continues,it might end up in DoS problem for facebook.
To avoid this problem,facebook might have started to disable the login after single-click and fades the button to indiacate that it is being disabled (for a short duration).In this way,they would avoid the "possible" DoS attack by Anonymous.
Hope this works away and avoid the possible attack on our most lovable social networking platform.
