Hacking Facebook Gets Kid A Job At Facebook

I know this sounds like the feel-good-hacker-makes-good story of the day but stunts like this usually land you in jail.

Way back in 2005, a kid named Chris Putnam wrote a computer virus that rapidly spread across Facebook. The bug's effect was make Facebook users' profiles look like MySpace profiles. Unfortunatly, the worm also deleted some users's contact details. Pretty quickly, Facebook's COO, Dustin Moscovitz, was able to figure out Putnam was behind the attack. But instead of having Putnam arrested, Facebook hired him.

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