Liz Gannes

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Facebook Goes to the Public Sector for Next Board Pick

Facebook’s seventh board member is Erskine Bowles, the former Clinton White House chief of staff and current co-chair of President Barack Obama’s bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform. Bowles also has experience in academia and private equity. We might also note that Bowles is not a woman, just like every other board member of a prominent Web 2.0-era company.

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I think the NSA has a job to do and we need the NSA. But as (physicist) Robert Oppenheimer said, “When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and argue about what to do about it only after you’ve had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.”

— Phil Zimmerman, PGP inventor and Silent Circle co-founder, in an interview with Om Malik