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Re:Facebook Stored Hundreds of Millions of User Passwords in... by anigbrowl on Thursday March 21, 2019 @02:55PM (#19456025)
'Only scanning for the things one is working on' to the point of missing huge security holes or safety risks is exactly that's wrong with the industrial division-of-labor approach. Workers start to assume that even if they do notice a problem, someone else is either going to fix it or has examined and OKed the current procedure. Workers who speak up and assert that something they noticed actually looks more important than whatever task they were originally assigned to are typically punished rather than rewarded, and fired if they make too much of a fuss because otherwise managerial authority might be diminished. Most firms run internally like a dictatorship, and given Facebook's absurd ownership structure (where there are voting and non-voting shares Zuckerberg retains a majority of the voting shares) it's a recipe for dysfunction.
Re:Facebook Stored Hundreds of Millions of User Passwords in... by tptacek on Thursday March 21, 2019 @05:42PM (#19457659)
This is true but not very interesting. Like literally every large tech company in the entire industry, Facebook has a specialized team of people that work on security --- it has one of the better versions of that team, for what it's worth. Just like ordinary Apple engineers, ordinary Google engineers, ordinary LinkedIn engineers, and ordinary Airbnb engineers, ordinary Facebook engineers don't have an end-to-end picture of how all of security at Facebook works.

There's no evidence that there was whistleblowing suppression about this issue anywhere at Facebook, is there?