Story behind Facebook’s new security guy
On Monday this week at SXSW I was waiting in line for BBQ at the IronWorks and someone said “you Robert Scoble?”
“Yeah.”
“I’m the guy who let you listen to my piano practice back in high school.” (He wrote a Web service that let me listen to his piano practicing, it was most cool. He lived in Atlanta at the time, I had just started working at Microsoft).
But the story gets better.
Turns out he’s now head of security at Facebook.
How did he get the job? He hacked into Facebook’s site. They hired him to fix the problems. Very unconventional. But smart. Lucky that Chris didn’t get arrested (he knows of other people who did the same thing to other companies who weren’t as lucky, so he doesn’t recommend it as a career path).
I knew Chris was gonna do something interesting by the time he was 21 (I first met him when he was 17). UPDATE: actually, I had never met him until Monday. I meant “met virtually” cause we had talked quite a bit back in 2003 via IM and other tools.
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March 16th, 2007 at 12:35 am
Crazy awesome! A guy from Google came to our school last week to recruit. He told us to break Google products to get hired.
March 16th, 2007 at 1:42 am
That’s awesome… I would kill to work at Facebook
March 16th, 2007 at 4:31 am
Yeah.. I need to keep my thoughts to myself I think; I wrote a follow up to this that is linked that makes lawyers probably really hate me! :)
Rex
March 16th, 2007 at 5:02 am
Well, hope I turn up in a post like this someday…
March 16th, 2007 at 7:46 am
Hacking into a job, that must have been pretty exciting.
March 16th, 2007 at 10:37 pm
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