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Is Russian ownership of Facebook a threat to National Security? (qrimp.com)
2 points by pj on May 26, 2009 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments


People in the USA should chill out. Everything is a threat. Always about the "terrorists".


Theirs or ours?

The article presumes that minority ownership or even board membership gives you access private or proprietary personal information. Ain't so, unless Facebook is incredibly stupid. On second thought, given some of their past actions, maybe the concern is legitimate.


Jesus! Someone should really get out of the cave sometimes.

A small fraction of that money can buy hundreds of thousands of records of credit card details, ssn, drivers licence scans, bank accounts, passwords to all kinds of services.

Please, get real.


Not at 2-3%. And if a foreign power wanted to compromise Facebook user privacy (and through it, American security), they'd infiltrate their staff/systems, not buy a minority stake.


Yes, everyone panic!




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