Facebook fixes timeline bug, cites language trouble in delay
A Facebook engineer blamed language difficulties and documentation issues for a delay in fixing a bug that let a security researcher post directly to founder Mark Zuckerberg's Timeline, which is restricted if two users aren't friends.
Khalil Shreateh, who lives in Palestine, demonstrated the vulnerability by writing a message on Zuckerberg's Timeline after an earlier bug report he submitted wasn't acted upon, according to his blog.
The flaw was then fixed on Thursday, wrote Facebook software engineer Matt Jones. The social networking site on Sunday confirmed Jones' post, which attributed the delay to the volume of reports Facebook receives and communication issues. "For background, as a few other commenters have pointed out, we get hundreds of reports every day," he wrote. "Many of our best reports come from people whose English isn't great - though this can be challenging, it's something we work with just fine and we have paid out over $1 million to hundreds of reporters."
