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What I can't figure out is what's this guy's beef that he went revealing all this? Was he fired or demoted or something and thought to get his own back?
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> the primary channel for discourse Primary for whom? If you polled 50 people on the streets of NYC, I bet fewer than 3 would say they actively use twitter. Now do the same for Des Moines, IA and you maybe get 1?
I think that Twitter is very much the tail that wags the dog. Sure, 1 out of 50 normal people may use it, but nearly 1 out of 1 reporters use it. Those reporters often quote opinions on it as if they are representative of the larger public, even if the tweet they quote is by someone with 10 followers and no stars.
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> the primary channel for discourse Primary for whom? If you polled 50 people on the streets of NYC, I bet fewer than 3 would say they actively use twitter. Now do the same for Des Moines, IA and you maybe get 1?
I think that Twitter is very much the tail that wags the dog. Sure, 1 out of 50 normal people may use it, but nearly 1 out of 1 reporters use it. Those reporters often quote opinions on it as if they are representative of the larger public, even if the tweet they quote is by someone with 10 followers and no stars.
And it’s possible to cherry-pick people to push any narrative you want. Like the NYT talking about how GenZ is very pro-life, quoting several pro-life youngsters. Meanwhile buried somewhere in that long article is the lede - only 20% of GenZ is pro-life.
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> the primary channel for discourse Primary for whom? If you polled 50 people on the streets of NYC, I bet fewer than 3 would say they actively use twitter. Now do the same for Des Moines, IA and you maybe get 1?
People with outsized influence over politics, for example.
OK, so their security is a mess, as many commenters have pointed out, they are one of many companies. What I can't figure out is what's this guy's beef that he went revealing all this? Was he fired or demoted or something and thought to get his own back?
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?
Cynically, because it's twitter, and it's trendy amongst a certain subset of the population to bash social media in general and twitter in particular. And I think your point is fair.
(FWIW, I think social media has if not caused, then certainly exacerbated, some major problems at individual, societal, and global levels, but by no means do I think twitter is the biggest contributor. I don't think we'd see the kind of unconstructive political polarisation we're seeing in the US and UK and perhaps, to a lesser extent, within the EU, without it.)
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First, servers generally run on operating systems. No one with any serious knowledge would use the phrase run on software. Second, does this guy have any actual tech knowledge at all? He doesn't list what operating system they are running or what security updates he is expecting. It doesn't sound great but I assure you I've probably seen worse on systems used by the literal federal government to conduct official busi…
> Second, does this guy have any actual tech knowledge at all? He doesn't list what operating system they are running or what security updates he is expecting. "This guy": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peiter_Zatko
That’s quite a generous take. There were plenty of excellent hackers in the 90s, but “L0pht” just seemed like the PR friendly one that could go on good morning America.
Can’t tell if this is real or just a 90s security person trying to stay relevant after being fired.
OK, so their security is a mess, as many commenters have pointed out, they are one of many companies. What I can't figure out is what's this guy's beef that he went revealing all this? Was he fired or demoted or something and thought to get his own back?
Look at Mudge's track record. He didn't become a security legend by staying quiet about problems, and if Twitter wasn't willing to address it internally...
Seems like a legit answer.
OK, so their security is a mess, as many commenters have pointed out, they are one of many companies. What I can't figure out is what's this guy's beef that he went revealing all this? Was he fired or demoted or something and thought to get his own back?
Look at Mudge's track record. He didn't become a security legend by staying quiet about problems, and if Twitter wasn't willing to address it internally...