Chris Putnam

IRL Name: 
Chris Putnam
Biography: 

Chris Putnam and his friends created created an XSS-based worm on Facebook and modified infected pages to look just like MySpace profiles. In 2006 Putnam, then 19 years old, received a Facebook note from co-founder Dustin Moskovitz that read something like this (in Putnam’s own words): "Hey, this was funny but it looks like you are deleting contact information from users' profiles when you go to replicate the worm again. That's not so cool."

Facts

Muskovitz offered him a job as an engineer in Facebook.

An emoticon :putnam: was credited to him.

He was the one who developed Facebook’s video application.

Rumors

People thought that the emoticon :putnam: is Justin Beiber.

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