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tl;dr The author worries that Facebook data breaches suggest unfixable infosec problems at the company.

My response:

Data breaches are a secondary concern. Facebook has too much data for anyone to exfiltrate a large percentage of it.

The primary bad actor is Facebook itself, which can analyze and operate on all of that data (to share with governments, partners, or psychological experiments).

[dangus]

But then again, the practices you mention in your last paragraph have literally nothing to do with the subject of this article (not saying that I do or don’t agree with you there).

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> But then again, the practices you mention in your last paragraph have literally nothing to do with the subject of this article

That's the point of my comment. The article asks if Facebook has become unsafe because of hackers. I was arguing that Facebook has been unsafe for a long time because of Facebook, rendering the article somewhat beside the point.

Asking if Facebook is unsafe because of hackers is like asking if a vial of arsenic might be contaminated with cyanide. Yes, it may be contaminated, but it was already guaranteed to kill you.