Khalil , a Palestinian white hat hacker , submitted bug report to Facebook about a vulnerability that allowed him to mail on anyone ’s bulwark . But Facebook ’s protection team did n’t do anything . So Khalil wrote on Mark Zuckerberg ’s wall about it and was generally a badass .
Khalil explains on hisblogthat he bow a full description of the bug , plus follow - up trial impression of its existence to the Facebook security feedbackpage , where investigator can win reinforcement of at least $ 500 for finding important vulnerability . Then he submitted again . The second time he arrive an e - mail back that say , “ I am no-count this is not a bug . ”
When he post on Zuckerberg ’s paries , Khalil said , “ First dreary for break up your seclusion and mail to your wall , i has no other pick to make after all the reports i sent to Facebook team . ” He then detailed the situation and provided linkup .
Within moment , a Facebook engineer contacted Khalil for more information and then blocked his story “ as a precaution ” while a security team fixed the hemipteron . afterward his account was re - enabled . But Facebook says that he can not claim a wages for the find because in hack Zuck ’s wall he violated Facebook ’s terms of divine service . Theycommentedthat , “ exploiting bugs to impact actual users is not satisfactory conduct for a white lid . In this pillowcase , the research worker used the bug he get word to post on the timelines of multiple users without their consent . ” Facebook accept , though , that its squad should have been more diligent in succeed up on Khalil ’s compliance . So . Cool . Problem solved . [ Khalil , RT , The Verge ]
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