I'm really not speaking for Facebook here, but on my own behalf, to better my own sense of ethics and responsibility in how I influence and balance these equities in the job I have now and others I'll have in the future.
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Questions of openness, control, consent and how we do it, have been around and will be around past the end of my career and the companies I've worked at.
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Should CSP override browser extensions? Should browser extensions exist at all? Should Android allow 3rd party contact management? Should Gmail/Outlook grant read/write scopes for email? Should Apple let you use 3rd party iCloud backups? Should Signal federate?
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The walled-durian-garden extension-store model and its false sense of curation is a big part of the problem. If you had real curation like Debian repo, extensions could largely be trusted.
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In the absence of that, extension perms should be restricted such that access to privileged data precludes access to cause network requests, or else interpreter needs taint analysis.
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Re: 3rd party backups, it would be a non-issue with real client-side encryption.
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