His security blog at Facebook: "Facebook Security: Fighting the Good Fight" <a href="https://www.facebook.com/blog/blog.php?post=25844207130" rel="nofollow">https://www.facebook.com/blog/blog.php?post=25844207130</a><p>edit: here's the obligatory "but this is blogspam" note...Kelly's employment with the NSA was first reported by the the Times here a few days ago (<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/20/technology/silicon-valley-and-spy-agency-bound-by-strengthening-web.html?_r=2&" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/20/technology/silicon-valley-...</a>)...but yeah, here's a classic case of newspaperism vs. sexy-SEO-headlines...I didn't read "Web's Reach Binds N.S.A. and Silicon Valley Leaders" because it sounded no different than other recent stories...but a Facebook exec going to work for N.S.A. is definitely a headline-worthy fact.<p>However, Kelly isn't the stereotypical young Bay Area millionaire ex-Facebooker...he previously worked as an FBI analyst before joining Facebook (<a href="https://twitter.com/wrox/status/1699420309" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/wrox/status/1699420309</a>)...So going from FBI to Facebook to NSA isn't as strange as, well, going from college to Facebook to NSA, unless the catered lunch at NSA is classified and delicious. Not knowing why he left Facebook...but after doing so, it's not out of left field to go back into federal security, especially if he had a NDA with Facebook not to go to other competing services, such as Google.
This is a brilliant move on his part. He knows the FB architecture and security apparatus, and he is going to contributing immensely to NSA's endeavors on how to effectively data-mine social media aggregates. Not to mention the relationship he's already built with the FB alumni. He'll have enough clout to influence decisions over there.
When you start to look back, things like this start making a lot more sense in the present context: <a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2011/02/obama_meets_with_facebook_founder_mark_zuckerberg_headed_to_oregon_next.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2...</a><p>Maybe there isn't a plan to infiltrate existing big-data companies, but it seems like an awful coincidence that we see things like the above link and the headlines of today.
Makes sense. Facebook's leadership publicized belief is that privacy is outdated. NSA's position is the same, only they have more tools to make it so.
Given that the first $500 million of Facebook investment came from In-Q-Tel, a CIA company that invests in deep data mining systems, it isn't hard to wonder whether Facebook's security officer could have been an employee of the NSA all along.