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Re:Getting any Facebook user's friend list and partial payme... by tintor on Friday March 09, 2018 @04:02PM (#16555007)
".. Facebook's team .."

Most likely a single dedicated person at FB.

Re:Getting any Facebook user's friend list and partial payme... by gambiting on Friday March 09, 2018 @04:16PM (#16555121)
I guess it's cultural, but I have observed many times that especially in America, there is a lot of emphasis on individualism - the cult of the person and their own achievements is placed above all else.

Even if the fix was done by one "dedicated employee" , they still belong to a team of people working together. I feel like singling out one person like this is almost rude to the rest of the team.

Re:Getting any Facebook user's friend list and partial payme... by sigsegv0xb on Friday March 09, 2018 @04:17PM (#16555130)
Do you mean that FB only has one single dedicated person looking at Whitehat tickets or that a single developer made the fix?
Re:Getting any Facebook user's friend list and partial payme... by guessmyname on Friday March 09, 2018 @04:27PM (#16555207)
A single developer made the fix.
Re:Getting any Facebook user's friend list and partial payme... by ryanbrunner on Friday March 09, 2018 @04:37PM (#16555276)
And in all likelihood, someone else monitored the incoming reports, recognized that this was a high-priority issue, and fast-tracked it to the developer. On top of that, I don't know Facebook's process that well, but releasing something that quickly probably involved some coordination to get it out so fast. Maybe someone else verified it, maybe someone fast-tracked it through the approval / launch process, etc.

Even things like bugfixes are rarely entirely creditable to only developers.

Judging by the name of the endpoint, it probably wasn't a super-complicated fix anyway - just disable / blacklist the endpoint that was obviously a mistake / test.

Re:Getting any Facebook user's friend list and partial payme... by sneak on Friday March 09, 2018 @04:32PM (#16555238)
Who sometimes has a day off, or takes a vacation, or has an illness, so you’re looking at a minimum of 3 persons...
Re:Getting any Facebook user's friend list and partial payme... by zitterbewegung on Friday March 09, 2018 @04:28PM (#16555212)
They have a dedicated Bug report team that sifts through the nonsense so it can't just be one person..