The strange events of Facebook continue

Reports are coming out of the US that the Facebook mobile phone app is doing something rather strange, in fact doing several things that are rather strange. Following on from our article in the strange case of Facebook email addresses suddenly becoming the default email address on your account whether you signed up for it or not, comes this latest development where the app for both Apple and Android based phones has been rummaging through your address book, and seeking out all of your contacts who have Facebook accounts and replacing their contact e-mail address with a Facebook one. This is something that goes beyond simple error and really gets to the heart of the reason more and more people are beginning to question what is really behind these somewhat questionable actions. It's not just conspiracy theorists who are asking these questions either, these events are raising eyebrows across the computer programming World, and what people are saying is that intrusive actions like these simply should not happen, ever, period. Yet they are, and they are happening more and more often, and they are almost all linked to Facebook, the company that is still struggling to justify it's share price at the recent IPO and to fight court cases around the sell off.

The series of very strange events, impacting as they do, the cornerstones of Facebooks success, namely gaming, mobile advertising and off site communication needs to be investigated much deeper, but again we run into a significant issue in that no-one seems to be too keen to do much digging into these stories. It should be the remit of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) but of course the SEC is a functional unit of the FBI, and the FBI is known to be subservient to the CIA. It seems more and more likely that the CIA is behind the whole Facebook IPO story, using this almost ubiquitous software to gain access to a tremendous range of people across the globe, and a network that shows the surprising ways that people connect together. This certainly wouldn't be the first time that the CIA had bee heavily involved in monitoring through software infiltration. Many people have wondered what exactly it was that lead to Microsoft gained such a significant market share in the operating system marketplace, and how it is still possible that even when offered a free alternative, people still choose Microsoft.

There is good evidence that Microsoft was covertly backed by the CIA both in terms of financial support, and in terms of industrial espionage against competitor software companies throughout the 1980's and '90's. This seems rather more likely than the supposed genuine story that there was a lot of collaboration between competitive companies. It also explains why the computer and software industry is one of the very few where Soviet and Chinese intelligence assets struggled to gain any inside information. If you look at the ease with which these assets infiltrated major military contractors and replicated advanced military hardware it would be expected that a similar pattern would emerge in computer science but this was just not the case at all. It all adds up to an ongoing CIA infiltration and monitoring policy to gather information about the rapidly changing social environment, in preparation for the coming tribulations, and the extreme challenges that we, as a society are going to face. Interesting times ahead.