Young Syrian man discovers several Facebook security-loopholes – Middle East Monitor

Baraa Habab is a young Syrian man who discovered security-loopholes in Facebook but was ignored when he messaged the company with his concerns. He then hacked the account of one of the Facebook founders, forcing them to thank him and employ him, as well as adding his name to their honours list. The 25-year-old man from Damascus emerged after great suffering, as the war in Syria forced him to leave university, where he was studying Information Engineering and had to leave his country before achieving the dream of completing his studies. He worked hard alone, bearing the hardships of living abroad and scientific discovery in silence. He was far from the “many theoretical matters still taught at universities” and was taken by his passion for the world of programming far beyond what he expected. He worked patiently and diligently until he left his mark on the field of information security systems. This began in 2016 and 2017 when Baraa discovered a software error on Facebook. He wrote several times to them in Arabic and English, but they did not respond to him. Ironically, Baraa did something the Facebook administration did not expect from a genius programmer, he accessed several private…
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