Revealed, Content of Facebook CEO's Email Makes Employees Cold Sweat
- Meta (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp) CEO Mark Zuckerberg apparently has the final words that suddenly make employees 'cold sweat'.
This was revealed from Zuckerberg's email to employees which was revealed in a lawsuit document against the social media giant.
In this case, it is known that in 2016 Facebook launched a secret project designed to intercept network traffic between Snapchat users and the company's servers.
This was done so that Facebook knows the habits of Snapchat users, in order to launch an effective strategy against this social media.
Facebook named the secret project as 'Ghostbusters'. The reference is from the Snapchat logo which is a ghost icon symbol.
Meta acquired a company called Onavo which has a feature to detect user data in other applications. The data has valuable information about several booming new applications such as WhatsApp. From there, Meta then acquired WhatsApp.
However, Snapchat user data was encrypted at that time. This means that Facebook cannot see what is happening to the application through Onavo.
These obstacles did not stop Zuckerberg's efforts. In the lawsuit documents, Zuckerberg sent emails to several Facebook employees including Javier Olivan (now COO Meta). He asked them to find various ways to circumvent Snapchat's encryption.
This is the content of the email revealed in the document, quoted from Business Insider, Thursday (28/3/2024)
"Whenever there is a question about Snapchat, the answer is we don't have any analytics about them because their network traffic is encrypted. But now they are growing rapidly. It seems crucial to find out new ways to get their analytics. Maybe we can form a panel or write special software. You have to find a way around this."
In the lawsuit documents, it is stated that several Meta executives questioned Zuckerberg's direction. Because, he openly asked employees to break into Snapchat's encryption system.
"I can't find a justification for this," said the former Head of Security and Privacy Engineering at Facebook at that time.
Zuckerberg's keyword is in the last sentence. "You have to find a way for this" (you should figure out how to do this). With these final words, employees who still want to work there really have to carry out Zuckerberg's wishes without compromise.