So the message here is: A guy who's associated with a company who made an investment in Facebook, is formerly associated with the National Venture Capial Assoc

So the message here is: A guy who's associated with a company who made an investment in Facebook, is formerly associated with the National Venture Capial Association (most VCs are), is associated with another obscure character who's associated with a VC firm which itself is associated with the CIA... ...did I get that right? This is typical conspiracy theory bunk. Because every character in this case -- persons and firms -- has itself 10's of thousands of contacts, the possible stories you can create by virtue of who each knows is exponential. So the meaning of any single association -- CIA + Facebook here -- becomes less and less compelling the further you move through the already-fragile associations. As an aside consider this: should you be judged for knowing someone who has at one time herself known a murderer, a rapist, a prostitue, or a drug dealer? What if you know someone who knows someone like that? The curious statistical thing is, it's almost certainly the case that you do. I don't mean to trivialize the importance of privacy of information. I just mean to make the case that if there is a decent case against FB and the threat it poses to users' privacy, this isn't it.