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by dylangs1030 4681 days ago
It's not "bullshit Terms of Service" - Facebook clearly lays out the terms of the Whitehat program.

There was no bait and switch - it's very explicitly stated that he should not be exploiting the vulnerability, and that it needs to be clearly explained.

I respect that he found a vulnerability, but he still needs to adhere to a website's terms and conditions. If the security team he reports a bug to doesn't "get it" the first time he should try again, not publicize it on Hacker News and attract negative publicity by putting it on Mark Zuckerberg's wall.

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It's not "bullshit Terms of Service", it's "bullshit excuse". There is a difference.
You originally said bullshit TOS, which is why I quoted that. It's not a bullshit excuse for all the reasons I already mentioned.