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Re:Hacker who stole Facebook source code comes clean by zalew on Monday April 30, 2012 @09:03AM (#3909019)
> He was also hoping that even when he got caught, Facebook would let him off the hook. That didn't happen.

It doesn't happen. Pretty naive thinking of his, he could have just read some hacker/cracker stories from the 90s/00s to know about that. Max Butler served (his first sentence for cracking, not the current one for cc) even though his exploit actually provided a patch and intentions were whitehat. Why learn it the hard way?

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Re:Hacker who stole Facebook source code comes clean by PakG1 on Monday April 30, 2012 @01:19PM (#3910223)
I can't remember who it was, but there was the one guy who managed to get inside the code and deface a whole bunch of people's profiles. He was so impressive that Facebook hired the guy. This was in their early days.
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Re:Hacker who stole Facebook source code comes clean by fsckin on Monday April 30, 2012 @01:32PM (#3910291)
Could be this one: http://www.quora.com/How-did-Chris-Putnam-get-hired-at-Faceb...
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