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I Love Facebook <3

by Sirr
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Have to say, this week I am in love with Facebook. I reported a rather serious security bug to them, and they paid me $5000 for reporting it. Amazing. I wasn't even expecting to get paid.

Facebook has actually become useful to me
  • Profile picture of the author Patrician
    Wow - that IS amazing!

    Nice to hear something good for a change.

    Congratulations!!!

    ;o)
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  • Profile picture of the author ErinWalsh
    Originally Posted by Sirr View Post

    Have to say, this week I am in love with Facebook. I reported a rather serious security bug to them, and they paid me $5000 for reporting it. Amazing. I wasn't even expecting to get paid.

    Facebook has actually become useful to me
    Incredible! How did that happen?!?! If they freely gave you $5,000, it makes me wonder what it was really worth.

    Cheers!
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    • Profile picture of the author Sirr
      Originally Posted by ErinWalsh View Post

      Incredible! How did that happen?!?! If they freely gave you $5,000, it makes me wonder what it was really worth.

      Cheers!
      I can't make the security vulnerability public, but I'll try explain how it came about.

      I write Facebook software, mainly for personal use to make my life easier. And whilst I was writing a feature, I mistakenly left out some information in the POST request (developers will know what that means), but what I was trying to achieve worked without the required information.

      I probed it further, and documented a Proof of Concept and a test case. I also sent them some software so they could see it happening. I reported out of good character, wasn't expecting no money for it.

      2 weeks later I get an email telling me they've decided to give me $5000. I had to check the email was even real for about 10 minutes. Couldn't believe it.
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  • Profile picture of the author mojoogden
    Originally Posted by Sirr View Post

    Have to say, this week I am in love with Facebook. I reported a rather serious security bug to them, and they paid me $5000 for reporting it. Amazing. I wasn't even expecting to get paid.

    Facebook has actually become useful to me
    Good lucky right before the holidays how amazing is that! Congradulations!
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  • Profile picture of the author Mollywhite
    Wow, that's so amazing. congratulations for you.
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