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I really appreciate your edits here and digging enough to put this story into proper context. It seemed like one of those stories meant to gin up outrage and ge

I really appreciate your edits here and digging enough to put this story into proper context. It seemed like one of those stories meant to gin up outrage and get the conspiracy theories going and it pretty much ended up just like that. There are people from all walks of life from all sorts of industries who end up at the NSA. It doesn't mean they're all setting up systems and bringing back intel for spying. This is just a coincidence. So I'm glad you brought this up but still think everyone is still going to play right into this article's trap. After all, conspiracy theories are much more satisfying to our egos than mundane reality.

exodust 13y ago
> "The article's trap" ? Just because readers join the dots to reveal a conspiracy picture, doesn't mean the picture isn't convincing or removed from reality or designed to satisfy egos. Just a coincidence you say? The fact is, Kelly said "There isn't enough information shared". Okay... so he clearly believes more information should be shared between Facebook and the NSA. Now he has gone to work for the NSA. 1 + 1 = 2. It's gone beyond "theory" and is now simply playing out like a documentary in real time. Grab yourself some popcorn.
trotsky 13y ago
While I don't consider this a huge revelation or issue, dismissing the employment of the former cso of the greatest private intelligence source in history by the greatest intelligence consumer in history as coincidence without a second thought is hopelessly naive. If you dismiss anything vaguely conspiratorial as a "conspiracy theory" out of hand you'd dismiss pretty much every active intelligence program we have.
marshray 13y ago
An executive of one of the US's largest private social graph repositories ends up working for the largest US spy agency known for maintaining their own "Big Ass Graph (BAG)" for many years longer* and it's "just a coincidence"?! Let me guess - NSA couldn't find anyone else who knew how to manage Hadoop. *Binney - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9-3K3rkPRE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9-3K3rkPRE
mcantelon 13y ago
>This is just a coincidence It's not really a coincidence that political influence in the security department at FaceBook is going to be seen as an asset by an organization interested in gaining access to FaceBook's data.

exodust 13y ago

> "The article's trap" ? Just because readers join the dots to reveal a conspiracy picture, doesn't mean the picture isn't convincing or removed from reality or designed to satisfy egos. Just a coincidence you say? The fact is, Kelly said "There isn't enough information shared". Okay... so he clearly believes more information should be shared between Facebook and the NSA. Now he has gone to work for the NSA. 1 + 1 = 2. It's gone beyond "theory" and is now simply playing out like a documentary in real time. Grab yourself some popcorn.

trotsky 13y ago

While I don't consider this a huge revelation or issue, dismissing the employment of the former cso of the greatest private intelligence source in history by the greatest intelligence consumer in history as coincidence without a second thought is hopelessly naive. If you dismiss anything vaguely conspiratorial as a "conspiracy theory" out of hand you'd dismiss pretty much every active intelligence program we have.

marshray 13y ago

An executive of one of the US's largest private social graph repositories ends up working for the largest US spy agency known for maintaining their own "Big Ass Graph (BAG)" for many years longer* and it's "just a coincidence"?! Let me guess - NSA couldn't find anyone else who knew how to manage Hadoop. *Binney - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9-3K3rkPRE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9-3K3rkPRE

mcantelon 13y ago

>This is just a coincidence It's not really a coincidence that political influence in the security department at FaceBook is going to be seen as an asset by an organization interested in gaining access to FaceBook's data.