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Re:Hacker who stole Facebook source code comes clean by noonespecial on Monday April 30, 2012 @07:31AM (#3908771)
Making a Facebook clone is about the last reason I can think of for buying Facebook's source. I'm guessing any buyer interested would be looking to use it to find exploits for snooping or worse.
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Re:Hacker who stole Facebook source code comes clean by Strallus on Monday April 30, 2012 @11:40AM (#3909667)
The article even stated a reason for wanting to purchase the source code.

> source code would surely have been of interest to cybercriminals who attempt to use Facebook to perpetuate scams

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Re:Hacker who stole Facebook source code comes clean by weinzierl on Monday April 30, 2012 @12:14PM (#3909843)
"Making a Facebook clone is about the last reason I can think of for buying Facebook's source." Probably not the first reason, but IMHO it's not that far fetched. The German Facebook clone has has allegedly used parts of Facebooks (client side) source. They have been sued and settled out of court if I remember correctly. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook,_Inc._v._StudiVZ_Ltd.)
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