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What you don't seem to understand is that you have come here, to an ETHICAL forum full of intelligent talented people and asked them to perform an illegal activity, claiming it's for a good cause. Now don't get me wrong reuniting a parent with a lost child is a very good cause, but there are a few things that really concern me about this whole thread:

I am assisting a family who's son is missing. He is verifiable and in all the missing persons databases. News articles are available. I do not wish to reveal his name in a public forum.

You are searching for a missing person, details of the case can be found publicly, but you refuse to give details publicly. The information is already out there why ask for help and then deny access to the relevant information?

What his family would be looking for is someone of sound ethics and outstanding reputation who could hack facebook, email, etc.

The purpose would be to verify that there has not been account activity (sent messages for example) after his disappearance.

Corporations like facebook, google etc are required BY LAW to help the police with information regarding cases like these if you really was searching for a missing person the police would already have access to these accounts. The law is the law and it doesn't matter if you are from a small village or a huge city they are still required to act.

By the way, I was not intentionally asking for anything illegal. I didn't know that connecting someone with his mom and their doing it with her expressed permission would be illegal. I would not have sought out the "ethical" hacking community if that were the case.

(Slightly curious now what "legal hacking" and "ethical hacking" indeed is, but not enough to try to find out.)

yes this is illegal we wouldn't be attacking her sons accounts we would be attacking those companies directly they own the servers and the content within them not your missing person, if caught the one helping you would be in serious bother and face a long time in prison and I very much doubt you would be so eager to come to his/her aid.


All these things lead me to believe that you have absolutely no intention of helping a parent find her child and are trying to gain access to someone's accounts for your own personal gains. We have seen a lot of attempts like these and they are usually very quickly discovered, just remember we have experts in human manipulation residing in these forums we know the tricks of the trade.