'Too Late to Protect 2018 Elections,' says Alex Stamos, former Facebook CSO

Apparently not.

They’ve dissolved it into a bunch of less visible and more scattered positions reporting to assorted business units; probably for reasons that their PR flacks would suggest stem from a pervasive focus on security; rather than the fact that nobody in charge of providing a bird’s eye view of what they do could stay on message.

And I suspect that the flack is spinning but not wholly lying: Facebook has nothing to gain from being insecure in the Yahoo sense of the term; so they probably do have a fair amount of locally focused effort ensuring that their numerous systems aren’t getting hacked horribly all the time; and that, while violations of norms and regulations may occur, what happens to Facebook’s data on Facebook’s systems is according to their design.

They just don’t want a C-level who has to deliver the “our engineers work tirelessly to ensure that all violations of your privacy, and boy that’s quite a list, are delivered to Facebook customers rather than kiddies with SQL to inject” summary.

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