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Thursday 31 October 2013

How a Facebook hacker lifted Palestine to prominence

Recently, Khalil Shraiteh, a young Palestinian, found a bug in Facebook’s coding that allowed him to post on any user’s wall, even if the two were not friends. Shraiteh claimed that he sent multiple e-mails to Facebook about this problem and after having received a response that it was not a bug, decided to prove his point by hacking into and posting on Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg’s wall.

Despite this being a major breach — the implication being that spammers could post to multiple user accounts without being friends with them — Facebook did not compensate Shraiteh in any way, which it would normally do for so-called “white hat” hackers who identify security flaws in its systems.

Instead, Facebook disabled Shraiteh’s account and noted that he was not eligible for the minimum $500 (Dh1835) payout because he violated Facebook’s terms of service by infringing on the privacy of users he was not friends with.

Full article here: 

http://gulfnews.com/about-gulf-news/al-nisr-portfolio/weekend-review/how-a-facebook-hacker-lifted-palestine-to-prominence-1.1249651?


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