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Just to clarify for those who don't catch it in the article: Mudge's whistleblower complaint predates the Musk/Twitter feud entirely.
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Yeah, I think we're in lockstep here. I'm no fan of Musk (he's truly worked very hard to be the most provacatively pustulent punkass of tech) but that doesn't mean that Twitter leadership is any better. Just not as well PR'd. Dorsey himself was mostly an imbecile who drank too much of his own Kool Aid. Twitter has for years been the standard bearer for the most opaque, and incoherent content management; from user fee…
I’m a huge musk fan, but I still think his trying to get out of the Twitter deal is lame buyer's remorse and his arguments are weak. I see it as mostly unrelated to this mudge issue.
Twitter CEO's response to employees which denies none of the claims made by CNN & WaPo* https://twitter.com/donie/status/1562069281545900033 * https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2022/t... edit: the PDFs from * https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2022/t... https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2022/t... https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2022/t...…
It is rather disconcerting how a platform that is apparently rather integral to the discourse of today is in the hands of a single private company. It doesn't matter who owns it, if it's Musk or someone else, the fact that it's at the whims of a private company, is the primary channel for discourse, and is something legislatures cannot even comprehend because of their age, should have alarm bells going off. Coupled w…
> It is rather disconcerting how a platform that is apparently rather integral to the discourse of today is in the hands of a single private company. Unpopular opinion: I think it's awesome that a private company has created a platform like Twitter. It's kind of like comparing a private amusement park with a public park: one has roller coasters, water slides and an arcade... the other has a swingset and a nice field…
How is this worse than at the whims of the crown?
The tiny detail that we're not having a crown anymore.
I learned a lot about Mudge by reading "Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World." For anyone wanting to explore 90's security nostalgia, it's worth a read. For anyone wanting to learn where hacktivism comes from, it's worth a read. For anyone wanting to learn about how security consulting has evolved over the years, it's worth a read. Mudge is a very cool and capable indivi…
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I’m a huge musk fan, but I still think his trying to get out of the Twitter deal is lame buyer's remorse and his arguments are weak. I see it as mostly unrelated to this mudge issue.
Musk posted a meme explaining why he pulled out. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1546344529460174849
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What's the story with Rishi Sunak? Assuming you mean the candidate for Conservative Party leader and thus UK PM, I wasn't aware of such a connection.
Rinki Sethi. OP meant Rinki Sethi. (CISO of Twitter until January, left at the same time as Mudge)
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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…
If I had to take a stab, it's a combination of networking effects (obviously), simplicity and the short text limit, which forces authors to mostly be concise and optimize for a 140 character attention span. This is also supercharged by the fact that you can (mostly) access everything anonymously - if I'm linked to Twitter, I know I can read/watch it and it will mostly be concise. I don't even bother clicking a link to FB, for example.
God Mode, from my understanding, allows a Twitter employee to have access to an account and allows for a post to be made, under that account's id, without the account being notified or seeing the post show up in their own timeline. Is this an accurate statement? If so, why did nearly 1000 employees (12% of the workforce) have access to this mode before it was restricted, and what's the business case for that?
If you read the document "Security Chief's Final Report to Twitter" on the Washington Post article ( https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2022/t... ), you will see that 'god mode' just means they have IPMI access to servers.