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Seems like Facebook's strategy for dealing with their PR problem is to blame someone else for the flaws in their product as a diversion tactic. It's not a good
by brenden2 7y ago
Seems like Facebook's strategy for dealing with their PR problem is to blame someone else for the flaws in their product as a diversion tactic.
It's not a good sign when FB is unwilling to take responsibility for the mess they've made. How can anyone trust this company ever again?
Unfortunately, I think if they can win the PR war then they'll probably be fine. At this point the only thing that matters is public perception, and the one thing FB has going for it is that many people don't even realize that Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram are all the same company.
- vkou 7y agoSo, hold on. Facebook shipped a product with a security bug. There's nothing unusual about this. Every software with non-trivial functionality has, or has had at some point in the past, many security bugs. What exactly is the scandal, here? Why are you holding Facebook to a standard that no other company, or open source project is able to meet?
- brenden2 7y agoFB has enough resources to do a bit of auditing to catch these kinds of bugs. They are quite literally one of the wealthiest companies in the world. They have somewhere on the order of $40b in cash. Instead they allocate most of their resources into figuring out how to get people to click on ads.
- kick 7y agoOnly one person on the entire planet has demonstrated the ability to write security hole-free software, Daniel J. Bernstein, and it's unlikely that Facebook would be able to hire him and then get him to rewrite their entire stack.