Now, before you begin to scream...he actually did it for a good cause...
Palestinian hacker, Khalil Shreateh, raised an alarm after he found a Facebook glitch that allowed anyone post on a stranger's wall. Because the company ignored his warnings, he however found his way around getting the information on Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg’s wall.
A graduate of Information Systems, Khalil discovered the bug allowed users to share
links to other facebook users irrespective of the frienship satus of the person. According to him, he had tried it on a certain Sarah Goodin's wall.
According to the Daily Mail, he first contacted the Facebook security team after proving the glitch was real by writing on the wall of a friend of the Facebook founder.
But instead of thanking him and fixing the issue, Facebook said it wasn’t a bug. And because of the methods Shreateh used to finally convince them of the threat, Facebook later denied him the reward usually given to programmers who report holes in the site’s security.
By using this method however, he hopes that attention will be drawn to his complaint.
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