Facebook Messenger's Code Reveals Hidden Friend-to-Friend Payment Feature

Facebook is ripe for a peer-to-peer payment feature, and the company has been experimenting with a hidden feature inside its mobile app.

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Facebook is ripe for a peer-to-peer payment feature, and it looks like the company has been experimenting with a hidden feature inside its mobile app. The hidden code was first discovered by security researcher Joanathan Zdziarski, but a preview of the feature only recently surfaced when Stanford student Andrew Aude published the details via Twitter. Aude was able to hack the Facebook app to reveal the hidden feature within the much hated Facebook Messenger app, where users can easily send money to friends.

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