Millenials and GenZ may have no idea who Mudge is. I, however, almost lost my first job out of college at a bank because I ran l0phtcrack against our Windows NT 4 server to see if it could crack passwords. I showed my boss, and he pulled me aside into another room and tore my head off for irresponsibly running this tool against a production server. He said I could have been fired if this got out, but he covered my as…
It's Twitter. What possible serious security implications could possibly warrant everyone in Washington getting into a frenzy? All you do is make public comments that have zero value. And if this is indeed serious, where the fuck have we landed?
Ex-Twitter exec blows the whistle, alleging reckless cybersecurity policies
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#302Millenials and GenZ may have no idea who Mudge is. I, however, almost lost my first job out of college at a bank because I ran l0phtcrack against our Windows NT 4 server to see if it could crack passwords. I showed my boss, and he pulled me aside into another room and tore my head off for irresponsibly running this tool against a production server. He said I could have been fired if this got out, but he covered my as…
Lol, did the same thing for a government entity I was working for, also without prior permission. It showed 1/4 of the people used the name of the entity as there password, including 2 users with domain admin credentials. Both of the domain admins weren't even IT people, there were the director and his assistant, who demanded to be admins, because they were 'admin' within the org.
In my case, I didn't get scolding, but probably should have. As you're prior boss said, it was not good to do it on a running production server. Now a restored backup running on a private network...
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#304Millenials and GenZ may have no idea who Mudge is. I, however, almost lost my first job out of college at a bank because I ran l0phtcrack against our Windows NT 4 server to see if it could crack passwords. I showed my boss, and he pulled me aside into another room and tore my head off for irresponsibly running this tool against a production server. He said I could have been fired if this got out, but he covered my as…
It's Twitter. What possible serious security implications could possibly warrant everyone in Washington getting into a frenzy? All you do is make public comments that have zero value. And if this is indeed serious, where the fuck have we landed?
I agree with you that we have landed in not a great place.
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#307>one or more current employees may be working for a foreign intelligence service. I don't doubt this, but the source is someone with fairly deep ties to the US intelligence services. Why should he be allowed a job and not people with ties to foreign agencies?
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#308I've been hearing about Mudge for decades . It's actually a bit ... heartbreaking ... to see him looking so corporate, but we all age, don't we? I doubt he was fired for being bad at his job. But I'll bet he was fired for getting in people's faces. That was basically his calling card for years . Why is anyone surprised? I guess Twitter thought they could hire the cachet, without hiring the man. I remember an Apple WW…
Again, conjecture based on what I could extract from the froth, but mundane enough for me that alternatives (shocking displays of X) start requiring extraordinary evidence.
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#309Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't remember conservatives threatening Twitter to censor "dangerous" views or "misinformation" or telling who to ban.
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#310I've been hearing about Mudge for decades . It's actually a bit ... heartbreaking ... to see him looking so corporate, but we all age, don't we? I doubt he was fired for being bad at his job. But I'll bet he was fired for getting in people's faces. That was basically his calling card for years . Why is anyone surprised? I guess Twitter thought they could hire the cachet, without hiring the man. I remember an Apple WW…
I also only have public information, but the sense I've gotten was that Twitter had an embarrassing problem, with high-profile accounts being compromised, and Jack personally hired Mudge to fix it, with Mudge reporting directly to Jack. This set up Mudge to essentially be the parental supervision for Parag, which chafed / pissed Parag off. Then, when Parag became CEO, Mudge was out, having not accomplished much becau…