Chris Putnam

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Chris Putnam is an American computer scientist who through his Facebook - Hack was announced in 2005, which gave him a job at Facebook.

While studying at Georgia Southern University in 2005 , Putnam and two friends wrote a computer worm that spread across Facebook. The worm used cross-site scripting to change user profiles to resemble those on MySpace and deleted some contact information. The worm has been traced back to Putnam, and that's how a Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz became aware of it. Moskovitz offered him an interview, and a few months later Putnam moved to Menlo Park and started working on Facebook.

During his four years on Facebook, Putnam created, among other things, the video application for the site and helped improve the photo upload function. In 2010 he left Facebook. His face was one of the available emoticons in Facebook chat , usable with :putnam:.

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  1. ↑ a b Sara Yin: 7 Hackers Who Got Legit Jobs From Their Exploits . In: PC Magazine . Retrieved August 14, 2013.
  2. ^ Brian Barrett: How Hacking Facebook Got This Man Hired ... By Facebook . In: Gizmodo . Retrieved August 14, 2013.
  3. ↑ Caleb Johnson: How a Man Got Hired by Facebook by Infecting It with a 'MySpace Worm' . In: Switched.com . Retrieved August 14, 2013.
  4. ↑ a b Alexia Tsotsis: "The Hacker Company": Facebookers Snag A Vintage Sign For New HQ . In: TechCrunch . Retrieved August 14, 2013.
  5. ↑ Ian Paul: Hackers Gone Mild: 6 Rebels Turned Insiders . In: PC world . Retrieved August 14, 2013.
  6. ↑ The Facebook Blog . In: Facebook . Retrieved August 14, 2013.
  7. ^ Liz Gannes: The Early Facebook Employee Exodus . In: GigaOM . Retrieved August 14, 2013.
  8. ↑ Brad McCarty: An essential guide to Facebook emoticons . In: The Next Web . Retrieved August 14, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Putnam, Chris
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American computer scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century