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So your interpretation is that they suggest that Facebook "upper management" can spontaneously organize to keep employees locked out while some somehow immediat
by detaro 5y ago
So your interpretation is that they suggest that Facebook "upper management" can spontaneously organize to keep employees locked out while some somehow immediately formed (or prepared just in case something happens?) group of in-the-know people gains access and goes through systems to make an effective stab at deleting data, while dealing with an actual outage?
Yeah, I think it's pretty obvious why everybody else either not read the comment that way, or thinks it's a totally unbelievable conspiracy theory.
- ColinWright 5y agoGiven the current whistle-blower situation I think it entirely plausible that FFB currently has people thinking about ways to selectively erase data. And I think it's entirely plausible that the people involved in doing so would not be the same people as would have to be dealing with an outage. Maybe I've dealt with both the military and super-large organisations too much, but yes, I do consider scenarios like this. As part of designing soft-real-time safety-critical systems I had to think of scenarios like this. I continue to be surprised that people didn't read exactly what was said ... I generally expect programmers to be more literal. Again, I guess I was wrong. I'm learning. I won't make that assumption again, and I'll be more careful about exactly what I say, and how I say it.