A
hacker from Palestine found a Facebook glitch that allowed anyone to post on a
stranger’s wall, but when the company ignored his warnings he took them all the
way to the top by posting about the issue on Mark Zuckerberg’s wall.
Khalil Shreateh first contacted the Facebook security team after proving the glitch was real by writing on the wall of a friend of the Facebook founder.
But instead of thanking him and fixing the issue, Facebook said it wasn’t a bug. And because of the methods Shreateh used to finally convince them of the threat, Facebook later denied him the reward usually given to programmers who report holes in the site’s security.
I feel sorry for this guy, he found a problem with Facebook, I would like to point out there are many many more with the fact that it exists being top of the list, and when he tried to inform them of it they ignored him, so he does something quite ingenious to demonstrate the problem and what was Facebook’s response?
Khalil Shreateh first contacted the Facebook security team after proving the glitch was real by writing on the wall of a friend of the Facebook founder.
But instead of thanking him and fixing the issue, Facebook said it wasn’t a bug. And because of the methods Shreateh used to finally convince them of the threat, Facebook later denied him the reward usually given to programmers who report holes in the site’s security.
I feel sorry for this guy, he found a problem with Facebook, I would like to point out there are many many more with the fact that it exists being top of the list, and when he tried to inform them of it they ignored him, so he does something quite ingenious to demonstrate the problem and what was Facebook’s response?
They
ignored him again and stiffed him off a deserved, $500, reward for trying to
help them by pointing out a major error, what a classy organisation.
Hopefully
next time Mr Shreateh finds an error with Facebook it will allow him to shut
the whole thing down.
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