<story><title>Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook page was hacked by an unemployed web developer</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/08/19/mark-zuckerbergs-facebook-page-was-hacked-by-an-unemployed-web-developer/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>short_circut</author><text>Dismissive and ignored? Did you read what he submitted to them? It made no sense. He vaguely stated that there was a bug and his education. His bug report was nonsensical. I am not even slightly surprised they ignored it. And he violated the TOS before he even ever tried to post to Zuckerberg&amp;#x27;s wall.</text></item><item><author>chrisacky</author><text>Although this is blogspam, it&amp;#x27;s a blogspam that I can actually support...&lt;p&gt;This is being covered a lot more widely because FB didn&amp;#x27;t just pay the guy. I know it wasn&amp;#x27;t about money for FB, but this is easily done a lot more damage then they would have expected and because of their inadequate handling of a single  bug report, I can only feel satisfied as I think this will go down as a good case study of how not to be so dismissive with critical bugs.&lt;p&gt;(I still think they should pay the guy, and it should be double the $5k he would have expected to receive).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>efuquen</author><text>Having dealt with fellow developers that don&amp;#x27;t have perfect english or thick accents I think it&amp;#x27;s quite unprofessional to dismiss someone&amp;#x27;s complaint without even trying to understand them.  It&amp;#x27;s great for us native English speakers that it&amp;#x27;s such a dominant language but I think we should all give a little more respect for others where it&amp;#x27;s clearly not their first language and they&amp;#x27;re the ones having to go out of their way to communicate with us.  I for one am  glad I don&amp;#x27;t have to deal with the bilingualism, with a bit more empathy and less dismissiveness the whole thing could have been avoided.</text></comment>
<story><title>Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook page was hacked by an unemployed web developer</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/08/19/mark-zuckerbergs-facebook-page-was-hacked-by-an-unemployed-web-developer/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>short_circut</author><text>Dismissive and ignored? Did you read what he submitted to them? It made no sense. He vaguely stated that there was a bug and his education. His bug report was nonsensical. I am not even slightly surprised they ignored it. And he violated the TOS before he even ever tried to post to Zuckerberg&amp;#x27;s wall.</text></item><item><author>chrisacky</author><text>Although this is blogspam, it&amp;#x27;s a blogspam that I can actually support...&lt;p&gt;This is being covered a lot more widely because FB didn&amp;#x27;t just pay the guy. I know it wasn&amp;#x27;t about money for FB, but this is easily done a lot more damage then they would have expected and because of their inadequate handling of a single  bug report, I can only feel satisfied as I think this will go down as a good case study of how not to be so dismissive with critical bugs.&lt;p&gt;(I still think they should pay the guy, and it should be double the $5k he would have expected to receive).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mcphilip</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t think it is as cut and dry as that.  The reply that &amp;#x27;this is not a bug&amp;#x27; showed a lack of concern that the reporter may have been having difficulties correctly submitting information about what would be a very significant defect, if true.&lt;p&gt;A community member taking the time and interest to try and go through proper channels to submit a vulnerability should, IMO, be given more respect than was shown by FB.</text></comment>