Facebook Steps Up Attack On Man Who Claims Ownership

Re:Facebook Steps Up Attack On Man Who Claims Ownership by hugh3 on Thursday June 02, 2011 @12:57PM (#2612787)

But Facebook said it had copies of the two-page contract examined by Frank Romano, a professor emeritus at the Rochester Institute of Technology and an expert in document authentication. Professor Romano found “significant inconsistencies” in type sizes, spacing, margins and other details between pages 1 and 2. He concluded that Page 1 and Page 2 were printed at different times on different printers and that Page 1, which includes references to The Facebook Book, is an “amateurish forgery,” according to the motion.

Facebook said it also had Mr. Zuckerberg’s e-mail account at Harvard examined by a digital forensic expert and found that the e-mails Mr. Ceglia provided do not exist. The expert also found 175 other e-mails between the two men that never mentioned The Facebook, the company wrote in the motion.

Sounds pretty convincing to me. By all means, let Ceglia's team have at that if they want, but I'm pretty inclined at this point to believe that he's a scammer, coming way late to the "no really I own facebook" party with some forgeries.

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Re:Facebook Steps Up Attack On Man Who Claims Ownership by kenjackson on Thursday June 02, 2011 @01:51PM (#2613066)

Yes, it sounds pretty strong to me. If Facebook didn't strongly believe these were forgeries, they wouldn't be pressing Ceglia for proof, but would be pushing some other defense. Good for Facebook and Mark.

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