Facebook, which offers a bounty of $500 or more to anyone who discovers a bug in its system, has come under fire for refusing to reward an out-of-work Palestinian programmer who reported a vulnerability that let people post to strangers’ accounts without authorization. The programmer, Khalil Shreateh, resorted to hacking Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s page to prove his point after the company first ignored, then repeatedly dismissed, his report.
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No Bounty for Zuckerberg Page Hacker, Facebook Says
Posted by: Richard Adhikari August 20, 2013 09:32 AMFacebook, which offers a bounty of $500 or more to anyone who discovers a bug in its system, has come under fire for refusing to reward an out-of-work Palestinian programmer who reported a vulnerability that let people post to strangers’ accounts without authorization. The programmer, Khalil Shreateh, resorted to hacking Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s page to prove his point after the company first ignored, then repeatedly dismissed, his report.