The community is raising money for a hacker who did not pay Facebook
A few days ago, the Internet spread a story about the unemployed Palestinian web developer Khalil Shreateh, who was refused by Facebook to pay for the found vulnerability. Hacker found a bug that allows you to post messages on the wall of any Facebook user, even if he is not your friend, and regardless of privacy settings.
Khalil first hacked the page of Sarah Goodin, classmates Zuckerberg, posted a video there - and sent a link to the Facebook security department.
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But they replied that one link is not enough to reproduce the bug.
Outraged, Khalil, in response to this, hacked the page of Zuckerberg and published on his wall a description of the situation.
Only in this way was the hacker able to attract the attention of Facebook security experts. One of them wrote directly in the comments to the screenshot and asked to send details about the exploit.
Khalil published a video demonstrating hacking - this is exactly what was missing in the first letter.
Facebook over the past couple of years has already paid over a million dollars to independent hackers for finding bugs on the site. Of course, the opinion that Zuckerberg refused to pay the Arab for some personal reasons simply looks ridiculous.
However, the community unanimously defended Sritech. Many say that the security department should have more respectfully and politely asked the hacker to send additional information.
After the hacking of Zuckerberg’s page, it’s hard to imagine that the company would agree to pay a reward - it’s good if they don’t start a criminal case against a poor Palestinian.
Halil Frittech
Hacker community decided to support a colleague on their own. On the website GoFundMe opened a fundraiser in his address. At this moment $ 7405 has been raised from the required $ 10,000. This is about the maximum of what Firtech could count on if he received an official Facebook reward. There, the minimum reward is $ 500, the maximum amount is not limited, but in the entire history the biggest reward was $ 20 thousand for vulnerability with burglary by SMS .
Khalil first hacked the page of Sarah Goodin, classmates Zuckerberg, posted a video there - and sent a link to the Facebook security department.
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But they replied that one link is not enough to reproduce the bug.
Outraged, Khalil, in response to this, hacked the page of Zuckerberg and published on his wall a description of the situation.
Only in this way was the hacker able to attract the attention of Facebook security experts. One of them wrote directly in the comments to the screenshot and asked to send details about the exploit.
Khalil published a video demonstrating hacking - this is exactly what was missing in the first letter.
Facebook over the past couple of years has already paid over a million dollars to independent hackers for finding bugs on the site. Of course, the opinion that Zuckerberg refused to pay the Arab for some personal reasons simply looks ridiculous.
However, the community unanimously defended Sritech. Many say that the security department should have more respectfully and politely asked the hacker to send additional information.
After the hacking of Zuckerberg’s page, it’s hard to imagine that the company would agree to pay a reward - it’s good if they don’t start a criminal case against a poor Palestinian.
Halil Frittech
Hacker community decided to support a colleague on their own. On the website GoFundMe opened a fundraiser in his address. At this moment $ 7405 has been raised from the required $ 10,000. This is about the maximum of what Firtech could count on if he received an official Facebook reward. There, the minimum reward is $ 500, the maximum amount is not limited, but in the entire history the biggest reward was $ 20 thousand for vulnerability with burglary by SMS .
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/190696/
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