Facebook Chief Security Advisor Now Works for the NSA Posted by: FWebb Posted date: June 25, 2013 In: News | comment : 0 Comments and 0 Reactions Max Kelly used to work as Facebook’s Chief Security Advisor. In 2010, Kelly decided that the grass was greener outside of the Facebook camp, and decided to move on to greener pastures. So far, so good, right? Everyone knows that when a better opportunity presents itself, you move on. It’s just good business. Somehow, though, this is where this story gets weird. When Max left Facebook, it wasn’t to the likes of Twitter, or Google, or even Myspace. It was straight into the arms of the NSA. Since the PRISM program was unveiled, it’s become common knowledge that all of the big technology firms have been sharing data with the NSA, in an effort to spy on American citizens fight terrorists. This move only strengthens the link between the NSA’s massive data mining campaign and the firms that run our digital lives. “We are all in these Big Data business models,” Ray Wang, technology analyst and chief executive of Constellation Research in San Francisco. “There are a lot of connections now because the data scientists and the folks who are building these systems have a lot of common interests.” Silicon Valley has been selling hardware to the government for years, which makes sense. Effectively running a government takes time, money, manpower, and computers. But ever since September 11th, that interest has expanded to the data held inside that hardware. “They’re very open about their interest in recruiting from the hacker community,” Jennifer Granick director of civil liberties at Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society Bruce Schneier, a technology writer probably says it best: “You willingly hand over data to Facebook that you would never give voluntarily to the government,” Like it or not, the reality is that the line between the two is getting blurrier by the minute. Unless something happens to stop it, the end result seems pretty clear.
Posted on: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 21:11:29 +0000
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