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Comment by arjvik | Hacker News Reader

"If you don't resign, we will almost certainly find out who you are anyway"

Is he really confident of this?

As I recall they did fire at least one person over this. Google had done something similar with the person (who turned out to be a contractor vs a full time employee) who leaked photos of the first Android phone.

Everything happening within a corporate network is tracked, so yeah unless the leaker was going through extraordinary lengths to cover their tracks it's only ever a question of how much effort you are willing to put in to find them.

He runs a network that basically builds a East German style profile on people. Wouldn’t doubt in the least he has best in class capabilities to track this down.

I agree with the first half, but I imagine Facebook is a kindergarten of espionage compared to actual spy agencies.

I have a hunch it’s the other way around these days.

I always assumed it is a front for actual spy agencies? (the same as Google, MS and probably even Apple, to be fair)

Yes. India is one example

https://www.reuters.com/world/india/india-forced-twitter-put...

False - today none of these companies can even accurately track granular performance metrics in a way that correlates it with the company’s bottom line.

Hence if they can’t do that, he’s gotta send an email about it. Tesla even had to send encoded spaces in letters to get leakers.

If you can’t measure what’s going right, you sure as hell can’t measure what’s going wrong.

Facebooks internal auditing of employee data access is world class. Not sure about what it was in 2010.

And your remark about performance metrics is irrelevant to the question of, who accessed this sensitive company data?

Calling something "world class" reminds me of "military grade". They've invested millions (billions?) at it and are probably better then most organizations outside maybe intelligence agencies (intelligence agencies sometimes being an oxy-moron in their own right) - overall I hate that facebooks internal data policies are referenced as a laurel that can be slept on.

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