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.
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