This URL bug tricks Facebook into thinking Mark Zuckerberg quit his job [Update: Fixed]

Dec04

by Sindy Cator on December 4, 2015 at 5:15 pm

Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Shareables

No, Mark Zuckerberg hasn’t actually quit Facebook in light of his newborn child, but if you trick the social network’s URL system the right way, you can make it look like he did. Security researcher Sachin Thakuri caught the bug, which involves removing a piece from the URL for Zuckerberg’s start date at Facebook. Specifically, he cuts out ‘&ustart=1’ from the original address. Embedding the post doesn’t seem to work, however, so it’ll be a bit tougher to start fake rumors. The original post is set to February 4, 2004, so why the August 16, 2011 date on the altered…