1/ Some notes on @alexstamos gate, where Facebook's chief of security was caught being honest on an internal phone call. https://twitter.com/zackwhittaker/status/921104665403625476 …
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2/ The terms "secure" and "insecure" have no meaning. It's impossible to be "secure", no matter what you do.
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3/ Alex talked about relative levels of security within the context of Facebook. You can't impart your own idea of "secure" onto this.
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4/ Next, security is a set of tradeoffs. People imagine the purpose of security is to lock down computes like they do at the NSA.
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5/ But that has huge, often unacceptable costs. Given Facebok's tradeoffs, it'd be absurd trying to manage their network that way.
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6/ The roll of cybersecurity is to do the best job they can within the constraints they are given.
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7/ So much "infosec burnout" comes from frustration with the inability to change those constraints (more budget, different policies).
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8/ Alex was just giving mature and thoughtful comments about the tardeoffs and constraints Facebook faces.
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Replying to @ErrataRob @alexstamos
the fundamental disconnect is between computer people, who intimately understand the need for dev freedom to...
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...retain quality people and to get anything done, versus journalists and pundits who especially since the election..
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...see a need for tech companies to fill an institutional role they were once exhorted to but can no longer uphold
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