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> I'm not particularly worried, Google and Facebook have two of the best security teams in the world and spend an amazing amount of money to protect customer da
by JadeNB 9y ago
> I'm not particularly worried, Google and Facebook have two of the best security teams in the world and spend an amazing amount of money to protect customer data.
But the Google and Facebook security teams are particularly motivated to protect Google and Facebook, not me. If our interests happen to align, then I reap the benefits; but if they conflict, or even if they don't align particularly well, then the sterling quality of those teams becomes more or less useless to me.
- notacoward 9y agoThose teams are pretty motivated to protect users as well, because user population and network effects are key to their business models (perhaps a bit more for Facebook than for Google but still). If users started feeling like visiting those sites exposed them to security risks, as well as the existing privacy concerns, it would be disastrous for the bottom line.