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by kristofferR 4679 days ago
This guy was lucky to be proficient enough in English to recieve the bounty, unlike this guy: http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/18/4633046/facebook-security-...
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Sounds to me like the big difference here is that this guy made a video when he couldn't communicate verbally (honestly seems like a smart way to do it even if American English is your first language; describing UI interactions verbally is generally pretty non-trivial). And critically, he did not actually use the exploit against another user. He just showed that he could have.
He might even get into Y combinator, if he tried.

There, I did it. Haha.

Can we stop beating dead horses, we all read Hacker News around here?

That was a dig at Facebook, not pg or YC.
That was a complaint about the style of posting, not about pg, YC or Facebook.
The problem with that guy is that he didn't use a test account and tested it on a random girl without her permission.