Facebook was founded on the credo “move fast and break things.” Just don’t break Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook page, okay?
Over the weekend, Khalil Shreateh, a Palestinian programmer, posted a notice on Zuckerberg’s wall helpfully pointing out a security vulnerability on Facebook that allows anyone to post on anyone else’s wall. In the post, Shreateh apologized for doing so—he had to do it, he explained, because he’d tried to report the glitch through Facebook’s normal processes but was ignored. On his own blog, Shreateh posted exchanges he had with Facebook employees, who told him the problem he was describing was “not a bug.”
