Good write-up on how the security team at Facebook seems intentionally to be misleading customers into trusting a differently branded “private network” control that actually did the opposite… “because we’re part of Facebook”: Onavo collects your mobile data traffic. This helps us improve and operate the Onavo service by analyzing your use of websites, apps … Continue reading Facebook VPN Turns Out to Be Anti-Privacy Surveillance Tool
The hits keep coming against Facebook’s CSO, as details of his breaches expand dramatically. Here’s the screenshot forwarded to me by a concerned reader: Apparently two weeks passed with fiddles playing while the vulnerability languished. This hints at an organization awash in staff and money unable to execute on safety. One could say it is … Continue reading Can Facebook Be Made Safe After Stamos?
At Blackhat this year people sometimes asked me if I was familiar with the “Charlatan Security Officer” situation at Facebook. I was not sure what they meant, and then they showed me threads online and invited me to meetings where this was the topic. Screenshots like the following one about ex-Yahoo CSO and current Facebook … Continue reading $1.63 Billion Breach Fine Discussed As Facebook CSO Legacy
Interesting write-up on Vox about the political science of Facebook, and how it has been designed to avoid governance and accountability: …Zuckerberg claims that precisely because he’s not responsible to shareholders, he is able instead to answer his higher responsibility to “the community.” And he’s very clear, as he says in interview after interview and … Continue reading Holding Facebook Executives Responsible for Crimes