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Years ago, they (Facebook at the time) wanted to hire a good friend of mine to do cryptography and security work for Hack, their PHP fork.

The engineer who made the contact had good intentions. The people who run Facebook did not. They tried to obtain a lot of privileged information (think "aquihire") under the guise of a required "diversity" survey.

They flipped their shit when the form got zero-filled.
In doing so, Meta burned the bridge with my friend and his company.

Do you know why I know this story?

Because they didn't sign a fucking NDA.
Even though the Hack developer had good intentions.

Even though the Hack language needed the security and cryptography expertise that consulting firm had to offer.

Even though it was a pivotal time for the language, as PHP had just hard-forked into the 7.x series, leaving Hack-based companies in a weird spot.

They still couldn't help themselves.
The moral of the story is: Do not trust #Meta. Do not work with Meta. Do not support Meta.

Preemptively block them.

Refuse to allow them in your spaces.

It doesn't matter how kind or conscientious the engineers you speak with are. Meta's gluttony for data and power over its users is inherent to their company, and is inseparable from it all.
#meta