The newspick article is rather
apologetic:
To be fair to Facebook, figuring these kinds of
nuances out isn’t easy — and implementing them in the form of software controls
isn’t either.
If that's too difficult for them they should find
a different line of business. Really. Anyone involved in securing applications
knows you really need to think through scenarios, including how a new feature
interacts with existing features, including how things can be abused and how
they can go wrong by accident. You will make mistakes, that's inevitable, but
the more effort you put into it the fewer mistakes you make. This scenario (post
image just for friends, who by tagging it can make the image available to
others, who can easily mistake it as public) does not make the impression much
effort has been put in thinking through the consequences.
Of course,
Facebook lives from sharing personal information as much as possible, which is a
fundamentally different mindset from what I describe. And as Randi Zuckerberg
worked for Facebook at a high level until last year it's likely she's one of the
people responsible for that mindset herself. And that makes her response either
incredibly naive or, more likely, very hypocritical. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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