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Imagine you are the Egyptian government. You want to squash a social media fueled rebellion, lead by some anonymous person. How hard is it to get one of your
by robrenaud 9y ago
Imagine you are the Egyptian government. You want to squash a social media fueled rebellion, lead by some anonymous person. How hard is it to get one of your bright and loyal minds hired by Facebook? How much data could such a person exfiltrate before getting fired?
The 'We will log your access and fire you' line of defense prevents nothing from someone who only has a job for the purpose of moving data out.
- taurath 9y agoThey don’t fire you, they arrest you. And then they find out who you work for.
- gruturo 9y agoDoesn't matter. At the first hint of trouble you escaped back to your country, protected by the government which had sent you there in the first place, and now the rebels have been murdered thanks to the data you got out.
- underwater 9y agoBatch scrapping or drip feeding data via a monitored internal tool? I doubt they’d get much out at all. It’s inherently a low bandwidth and very obvious channel. Someone in that position would be much better off building a back door into the system. But if they could also build a backdoor into iCloud, or scrape Gmail data from within Google. I assume that Facebook has mechanisms to check that new hires (especially foreign nationals) are legitimate.