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I don't remember conservatives threatening Twitter to censor "dangerous" views or "misinformation" or telling who to ban.
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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…
Ah yes, Lopht Heavy Industries. Indispensable tools at the time.
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You don’t understand the value of reputation.
I don't think you understand what it means to burn all bridges. He is literally unhireable right now in any corporate context. You are naive if you believe he is doing this out of some hacker ethos.
When is mudge going to audit tesla/spacex for "non-compliant kernels", "encryption at rest", etc, etc? Everyone in this shameful industry knows that literally any company in the US would get shredded in such a vigorous audit and the silliest part is that twitter is a fucking shitposting platform that doesn't have my SSN or financial data so equating it to equifax in any way is absolutely laughable.
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I don't because I'm not seeing an organization that will hold them accountable. - This Congress is ill-equipped to understand tech, much less hold it accountable. As long as the people are happy, Congress is happy. - Lord knows the people are ill-equipped to get how bad this is. They already watched this company allow a rogue employee to shut off the account of the President of the United States (before they chose to…
> My recommendation is to shed Twitter as a user. I never understood why tech people have such a strange enamor towards Twitter. Can’t be an industry power dev without it. Can’t start a company without it. Having a healthy Twitter following is often more important than having actual users—even to investors. Twitter is digital hype. I agree. It’s time to replace Twitter. The only question is what exactly is it that an…
I think it's a pretty open secret that Twitter is a fairly broken company. It's no surprise that their security practices are bad, because all their practices are bad. It's also very difficult to view this in isolation when you have the timeline of (1): Fired in January, nothing happens. (2) Musk makes offer for twitter then reneges. (3) Months before the lawsuit gets decided re-emerges with accusations. What happene…
Honestly, can you really trust anything about major social media sites any more? Has Twitter ever been in the news for properly making even a thousand people successful from scratch really ever in the product's life? They have pipelines of exploitation for everyone that gets "discovered" into contractual nightmare deals, they require tons of free labor and costly hurdles just to become notable and visible on the plat…
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If it impacts politics then it is one more reason not to be regulated by politicians.
Government regulation spans further than just rules engineered by a few politicians, it can be publicly voted upon, and it can dictate minimum standards that are upheld across private business for everyone's safety, which in this case is highly warranted. It's the best chance we have to stop this horrible trend. Companies have shown repeatedly that they are not trust-worthy nor responsible enough to self regulate.
You're making a distinction without making a difference. Regulating public forums for their content outside of illegal content has never been not abused. The UK is learning this the hard way with the police "checking the thinking" of netizens.
If you think companies are bad, then imagine politicians. I can switch off to another social media but I can't switch out to another state.
Eh, you could take out Twitter and insert many other company names and it'll still hold true. And those companies hold so much more sensitive data about you than Twitter. I know of insurance companies that have help desk employees with domain admin access. And all crippling ransomware attacks take advantage lax permissions. This is rampant. How is this a story?