World’s most convincing Jesse Eisenberg impersonator, Mark Zuckerberg has been notified of a significant Facebook bug by the most conventional means, with a hacker kindly alerting him to the flaw simply by demonstrating it: hijacking the kid who knows that billions are cool and accessing his personal Facebook timeline.
Now known admirably as King Of The Trolls, Kahlil Shreateh failed to be taken seriously when attempting to report a site-wide glitch that granted him the power to post on any person’s timeline with relative ease. Shreateh repeatedly reported to Facebook that the site had a few big old gaping security holes, but when nobody at Facey HQ cared noticed, Shreateh decided to go ahead and shed light on the flaw in the only noble way he knew how: ferreting about Facebook’s backend and posting an alert to Mark Zuckerberg’s timeline, starting off by saying, “First sorry for breaking your privacy and post to your wall.”
What could have easily earned the Palestinian systems expert some easy dough by reporting it to Facebook’s program dedicated to paying hackers to find their own fuck ups, WhiteHat, has ultimately ended in headline fame, a closed account, shoot the messenger reprimand and approximately $0 in finder’s pay outs. And who said hackers didn’t reap the rewards of their genius?
The moral of this strange instance of celebrity hacking story is threefold: one, if you figure out how to access anybody’s timeline, immediately send a marriage request to Jennifer Lawrence first; two, forgo being fruitlessly cocky and at least milk some cash out of your goldmine find, and three: don’t mess with the Facebook CEO, he’ll just Zuck you up.
Via news.com.au
