Chris Putnam
Chris Putnam is an American computer engineer, known for his 2005 hack on Facebook which subsequently landed him a career position at the firm.
While attending Georgia Southern University in 2006, Putnam and two friends (Marcel Laverdet and Kyle Stoneman) wrote a computer worm that spread throughout Facebook. The worm used cross-site scripting to change users profiles to resemble MySpace, and deleted some contact details.[1][2] The worm was eventually traced back to Putnam, and caught the interest of Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz. Moskovitz consequently offered him an interview, and several months later, Putnam moved to Menlo Park, California to begin working at Facebook.[3][4][5]
During his four years with the company, Putnam created the site's video application and helped improve the photo uploader,[1][6] before leaving Facebook in 2010.[4][7]
Putnam is also known for an incident where he climbed into Dustin Moskovitz's freezer.[8] Facebook engineer Matt Cahill created an icon representation of Putnam in the freezer, which today is one of the available emoticons in Facebook chat, evaluated from :putnam:.[9]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Yin, Sara. "7 Hackers Who Got Legit Jobs From Their Exploits". PC Magazine. Retrieved 14 August 2013.
- ↑ Barrett, Brian. "How Hacking Facebook Got This Man Hired... By Facebook". Gizmodo. Retrieved 14 August 2013.
- ↑ Johnson, Caleb. "How a Man Got Hired by Facebook by Infecting It with a 'MySpace Worm'". Switched.com. Retrieved 14 August 2013.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Tsotsis, Alexia. ""The Hacker Company": Facebookers Snag A Vintage Sign For New HQ". TechCrunch. Retrieved 14 August 2013.
- ↑ Paul, Ian. "Hackers Gone Mild: 6 Rebels Turned Insiders". PC World. Retrieved 14 August 2013.
- ↑ Gannes, Liz. "Facebook Grows as Personal Video Platform". Business Week. Retrieved November 21, 2014.
- ↑ Gannes, Liz. "The Early Facebook Employee Exodus". gigaom. Retrieved 14 August 2013.
- ↑ Guynn, Jessica (April 9, 2012). "Facebook's new campus sports old 'Hacker' sign". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved November 26, 2014.
- ↑ Elliott, Amy-Mae. "10 Fascinating Facebook Facts". ABC News. Retrieved November 21, 2014.
External links[edit]
| P ≟ NP | This biographical article relating to a computer scientist is a stub. You can help EverybodyWiki by expanding it. |
This article "Chris Putnam" is from Wikipedia. The list of its authors can be seen in its historical. Articles copied from Draft Namespace on Wikipedia could be seen on the Draft Namespace of Wikipedia and not main one.
