"White hat" Facebook hacker gets 8 months in jail

Re:"White hat" Facebook hacker gets 8 months in jail by nik_0_0 on Friday February 17, 2012 @03:05PM (#3604781)

I found myself wondering if perhaps the 'white-hat' reference is a blunder in the headline. This article woefully lacks any actual details regarding what he did or how he approached communication with Facebook, only stating that he was a white-hat hacker for Yahoo once (which obviously proves nothing).

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Re:"White hat" Facebook hacker gets 8 months in jail by skolor on Friday February 17, 2012 @03:55PM (#3604939)

I searched around a little bit, since I found the lack of details somewhat disturbing. This is the best I found: http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Facebook-hack-lands-UK.... From the sounds of it, he broke into an employees account (likely their work computer, possibly further access). I'm speculating, but that makes it sound like he stole some portion of the Facebook source code, coupling that with the "intellectual property" claims.

I'm curious about this line, towards the bottom:

   his intention throughout was to contact Facebook in due course when he had rectified their problems

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Re:"White hat" Facebook hacker gets 8 months in jail by ErrantX on Friday February 17, 2012 @05:35PM (#3605246)

Sounds like the classic "but what I would have done..." defence (unless they have backed it up with clear evidence, of course, I didn't check).

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