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by boomlinde 4692 days ago
By the time he'd reported it, he had already used the exploit to post on a live, non-friend, account. As far as I understand , that's already a violation of the TOS.
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It's fairly obvious he didn't understand the whole whitehat accounts he should have been using. English isn't his first language, so should we fault the guy for that - or Facebook who's an international company - with 1+ billion users? Or should Facebook own up to that they should probably update their documents - or give the guy a fucking break because they haven't done that? This is where you need REASON to react REASONABLY, and not just use a blanket statement to "make their life easy" in decisions like this. That's lazy and inhumane.
They're not faulting the guy for not having english as a first language. They're not rewarding him because he broke the TOS.