Facebook's former chief security officer compares company to 'The Matrix.' Whoa.
A system designed to keep us docile while extracting value from every aspect of our dulled existence is both an extremely rough plot summary of the 1999 film The Matrix and a description of Facebook.
Stamos, who reportedly left Facebook in August of last year following disagreements on how the company should respond to governmental misuse of the platform, started the March 14 Twitter thread with a disclaimer that he has no special knowledge of what knocked the system offline for so long.
2) Config change has unintended side-effects that only express in production, perhaps due to scale or a mismatch with the test environment.
4) Unfortunately, the automated system doesn't know how to handle the problem, and gets stuck in some kind of loop that causes more damage. Humans have to step in, stop it, and restart a complex web of interdependent services on hundreds of thousands of systems. pic.twitter.com/bP2iFT4wYA
Accompanying this last tweet is a screenshot from the final scene of The Matrix Revolutions, the third movie in the trilogy.
Stamos is clearly, if perhaps unintentionally, equating the oppressive machine-driven simulation in The Matrix with the Facebook platform itself.
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