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posted by martyb on Friday May 04 2018, @11:04PM   Printer-friendly
from the professional? dept.

Facebook engineer and 'professional stalker' reportedly fired over creepy Tinder messages

There's no shortage of Facebook news this week on account of F8, but this creepy Facebook-adjacent event with a good outcome seems worth noting. An engineer accused of abusing his access to data at the company in Tinder messages has been fired, Facebook confirmed to TechCrunch today.

The issue arose over the weekend: Jackie Stokes, founder of Spyglass Security, explained on Twitter that someone she knew had received some rather creepy messages from someone she personally confirmed was a Facebook engineer.

The engineer described themselves as a "professional stalker," which however accurate it may be (they attempt to unmask hackers) is probably not the best way to introduce yourself to a potential partner. They then implied that they had been employing their professional acumen in pursuit of identifying their new quarry.

Also at Motherboard.


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    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Saturday May 05 2018, @12:38AM (#675923) Homepage Journal

    That's because I have a lot of free time: two hours each way to and from work on public transportation.

    Not having to drive gives me lots of quality time with Facebook.

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