When you have a billion people using your service, you have an obligation to keep your users secure, even when they behave in unsafe ways.
Alex Stamos, Chief Security Officer (CSO) at Facebook, speaking at Web Summit last week, told a quick story to show what his company was up against when it came to security.
“The family car was not designed to be driven into a wall at 100 kilometers an hour. We call that user error,” he joked. Car companies try to take reasonable safety scenarios into account when building cars, and then attempt to make them as safe as possible based on the information they have.
