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It doesn't have to be "easily accessible" to be valuable. Corporate espionage exists, insider trading exists (and is more common than you might think), there's
by ForHackernews 6y ago
It doesn't have to be "easily accessible" to be valuable.
Corporate espionage exists, insider trading exists (and is more common than you might think), there's any number of parties who might pay for insider info (once properly laundered) about Facebook activities.
Why would "the government of Iran" care about what Facebook is up to? Isn't FB banned in Iran?
- fakedang 6y agoYou forget that intelligence and espionage goes both ways. Iran could use FB in some way to attack the US, just like Russia did, just as it could shield itself from FB.
- 9HZZRfNlpR 6y agoRussia bought lousy ads and ran some pages like your average boring marketer, hardly an attack.