That's me, and I'm quite embarrassed as I never paused to consider how it could be interpreted.
That was a real story. Shortly after we established Facebook's bug bounty program, we received several vulnerabilities from a brilliant computer science student at Tyumen University (in Siberia). His dorm did not accept international mail, he did not have an accepted government ID (didn't drive), and figuring out how to pay him was a multiple month ordeal that Facebook's accounting team was completely not prepared for. It's something that we take for granted but international dispersements to every individual with internet access is actually an extremely challenging and unsolved problem.
That was a real story. Shortly after we established Facebook's bug bounty program, we received several vulnerabilities from a brilliant computer science student at Tyumen University (in Siberia). His dorm did not accept international mail, he did not have an accepted government ID (didn't drive), and figuring out how to pay him was a multiple month ordeal that Facebook's accounting team was completely not prepared for. It's something that we take for granted but international dispersements to every individual with internet access is actually an extremely challenging and unsolved problem.