Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook page was hacked by an unemployed web developer
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Re: Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook page was hacked by an unemployed web developer
#2Although this is blogspam, it's a blogspam that I can actually support...
This is being covered a lot more widely because FB didn't just pay the guy. I know it wasn't about money for FB, but this is easily done a lot more damage then they would have expected and because of their inadequate handling of a single bug report, I can only feel satisfied as I think this will go down as a good case study of how not to be so dismissive with critical bugs.
(I still think they should pay the guy, and it should be double the $5k he would have expected to receive).
Re: Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook page was hacked by an unemployed web developer
#3poor show FB - thumbs down!
Re: Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook page was hacked by an unemployed web developer
#4Plenty more discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6229858
Re: Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook page was hacked by an unemployed web developer
#5I don't really understand what significance there is in stating that he is "unemployed." Does that somehow make his actions better/worse or the "hack" more/less tolerable?
Re: Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook page was hacked by an unemployed web developer
#6Why don't people just send things in their native language? If the platform for communication is serious (like a place to report security vulnerabilities), I would imagine they would spend the time/money to get a real translation if one was needed. Even Google Translate probably could've done a better job than this guy's original report.
Re: Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook page was hacked by an unemployed web developer
#7Although this is blogspam, it's a blogspam that I can actually support... This is being covered a lot more widely because FB didn't just pay the guy. I know it wasn't about money for FB, but this is easily done a lot more damage then they would have expected and because of their inadequate handling of a single bug report, I can only feel satisfied as I think this will go down as a good case study of how not to be so…
Dismissive and ignored? Did you read what he submitted to them? It made no sense. He vaguely stated that there was a bug and his education. His bug report was nonsensical. I am not even slightly surprised they ignored it. And he violated the TOS before he even ever tried to post to Zuckerberg's wall.
Re: Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook page was hacked by an unemployed web developer
#8hasn't this story been posted multiple times already?
Also it was made clear that he clearly violated the TOS and that his messages were unintelligible.
Re: Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook page was hacked by an unemployed web developer
#9Facebook is a top tier company; they don't pay people attention, much less real money, without a track record of like Harvard or Stanford already.
Re: Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook page was hacked by an unemployed web developer
#10Why don't people just send things in their native language? If the platform for communication is serious (like a place to report security vulnerabilities), I would imagine they would spend the time/money to get a real translation if one was needed. Even Google Translate probably could've done a better job than this guy's original report.
Whatever language he was going to send it in was not going to get parsed anyways since he barely communicated any relevant information in his emails.
The Facebook employee who replied to the email handled it very poorly, but the guy who found this bug also handled it very poorly by not actually sending any details about what he did.