Facebook hands out White Hat debit cards to hackers

Re:Facebook hands out White Hat debit cards to hackers by wmf on Saturday December 31, 2011 @06:54PM (#3412245)

He goes to prison?

But seriously, I wouldn't even look for holes in any payment system without prior indemnification.

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Re:Facebook hands out White Hat debit cards to hackers by daeken on Saturday December 31, 2011 @07:45PM (#3412329)

Hell, I work as a security consultant for a living and any time I touch live finance systems I tread very lightly. Any significantly complex system with money directly involved is going to have too many variables to predict its behavior. I wouldn't touch something like this with a ten foot clown pole.

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Re:Facebook hands out White Hat debit cards to hackers by tptacek on Saturday December 31, 2011 @07:48PM (#3412335)

Presumably this is being run through a real bank with a real underwriting department. A VISA card that works at ATMs is not fun-and-games; it's not a Facebook feature.

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Re:Facebook hands out White Hat debit cards to hackers by daeken on Saturday December 31, 2011 @08:18PM (#3412378)

Yea, this is well into the realm of going to jail for a long time if you touch anything. Find it pretty doubtful that anyone will even try.

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Re:Facebook hands out White Hat debit cards to hackers by nbpoole on Sunday January 01, 2012 @04:49AM (#3412800)

Indeed. It's a Chase Visa card :)

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