Facebook Engineers Hack the Nasdaq Button

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David Garcia, a senior software engineer at Facebook, says a small group of Facebook engineers hacked into the Nasdaq button that Mark Zuckerberg pressed to begin trading in the stock so that it would automatically update Mr. Zuckerberg’s Facebook status when he pushed it. In a guest blog post on TechCrunch, Mr. Garcia explains how it happened.

Mr. Garcia said he suggested the idea in a message on his Facebook wall. In the blog, he wrote that Mr. Zuckerberg seemed thrilled by the idea and commented to Mr. Garcia, “It would be epic if you pulled that off.”

So a small group of engineers did just that. According to Mr. Garcia, they hacked a mobile phone to the Nasdaq button that fed directly into Mr. Zuckerberg’s Facebook wall.

Early this morning, when the Facebook founder pressed the button, his status updated with the following message: “Founded in 2004, Facebook’s mission is to make the world more open and connected. People use Facebook to stay connected with friends and family, to discover what’s going on in the world, and to share and express what matters to them.”