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Mudge is a cyber activist, not a business executive

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Re: Mudge is a cyber activist, not a business executive

#11
So the writer is mad that mudge takes his job seriously and isn't an obvious corpo shill trying to bend all rules for profit?

Based on what? According to the writer, mudge's long experience of growing up before everyone became money obsessed apparently.

Flip it the other way round the writer demands all execs to be short term profit driven cucks or not worthy of a seat.

Can't tell if the writer is just an idiot or a gigabrain mudge supporter.

Re: Mudge is a cyber activist, not a business executive

#13
post #5

IMHO this read like PR written against Mudge, I am not saying it is, I mean that the presentation of arguments and the logic is too visibly organised and does not feel balanced.

it's Robert Graham. He's not a rando.

Non-rando people indeed can choose to have communication strategies, still I am not saying this is the case.

Re: Mudge is a cyber activist, not a business executive

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post #8

> In other words, in all likelihood, Twitter is ahead of the norm, ahead of the average, just not up to the same standard set by the leaders in tech. Really? It came out Twitter doesn't have a dev/staging environment. Source: https://twitter.com/lauren_feiner/status/1569695337190944775 in the same thread, "Twitter can't assure regulators that it's able to delete all data at a user's request because it's unsure where…

Do either of these allegations pass the smell test? They seem pretty wild.

Re: Mudge is a cyber activist, not a business executive

#17
post #8

> In other words, in all likelihood, Twitter is ahead of the norm, ahead of the average, just not up to the same standard set by the leaders in tech. Really? It came out Twitter doesn't have a dev/staging environment. Source: https://twitter.com/lauren_feiner/status/1569695337190944775 in the same thread, "Twitter can't assure regulators that it's able to delete all data at a user's request because it's unsure where…

Facebook is making very similar claims. Seems like Big Tech has decided the way to deal with data privacy complaints is to pretend that they don't even know what data they are storing and where.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/akvmke/facebook-doesnt-know-...

I wonder if ordinary citizens can make that same claim when it comes to their stuff - "No, officer, I don't even know whether there are any drugs in my possession because I don't even know what is in my house and where"

Re: Mudge is a cyber activist, not a business executive

#18
post #9

Some very good points made in this article but also so many cringey takes. The author is an engineer but compares the user to server ratio at Twitter to Netflix. Those services are so very different and have such vastly different hardware, software, and network requirements I don't even know where to begin. They dismiss Mudge's comments on lack of disk encryption by saying that anything less than end-to-end encryptio…

> There are all kinds of security controls to mitigate that threat that it sounds like Twitter isn't using.

I mean.. they created a "God mode" for their service. It pretty much tells you where their entire approach to security of user data sits.

Re: Mudge is a cyber activist, not a business executive

#19
So Twitter hires someone famous for a job. He tries to do the job well. But execs don't let him do it. If anything wrong happens, then he'll be blamed for it. What is he supposed to do while the ticking time bomb explodes which it will? Just sit and wait for their reputation to be tarnished for being bad at their job? Or take some action to pin accountability to the ones responsible?
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