Google+ Source Code Snoop Gets Hired

Austrian blogger and developer Florian Rohrweck recently discovered a lot of Google+’s upcoming features just by digging around in the source code for the new social networking service. He was one of the first (but not the only one), to reveal Google+ Games before its launch, for example, as well as still unreleased features like “Shared Circles” and social search, among other things.

Now, it seems, Google has had enough of Rohrweck’s snooping. It’s hiring Rohrweck to help secure the code instead.

This story sounds a little familiar, doesn’t it? After all, just last week, Apple hired one of iOS’s top hackers, Nicholas Allegra, also known as “@comex” on Twitter, to work on securing its mobile operating system. Likewise, Rohrweck will be tasked with securing Google Web apps from leaks, and possibly working as a developer advocate as well. (Even he doesn’t quite know what his duties will include, he says.) The ink isn’t dry on the job contract, Rohrweck notes, so technically he’s about to be hired, not hired yet.