> Way back in 2005, a kid named Chris Putnam wrote a computer virus that rapidly spread across Facebook. [...] Pretty quickly, Facebook's COO, Dustin Moscovitz, was able to figure out Putnam was behind the attack. But instead of having Putnam arrested, Facebook hired him.
> "I will be forever grateful that the company was so sympathetic toward people like myself. It's one of the things that really sets Facebook apart with its passion for scrappy, hacker-type engineers."
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> Way back in 2005, a kid named Chris Putnam wrote a computer virus that rapidly spread across Facebook. [...] Pretty quickly, Facebook's COO, Dustin Moscovitz, was able to figure out Putnam was behind the attack. But instead of having Putnam arrested, Facebook hired him.
> "I will be forever grateful that the company was so sympathetic toward people like myself. It's one of the things that really sets Facebook apart with its passion for scrappy, hacker-type engineers."