Posted on 04/26/2022 6:32:18 AM PDT by bill andersen
I like many Freepers are delighted in Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter. I hope he cleans house as soon as he is able and turns it into a free speech forum where all can participate.
It is safe to say that 90 percent of Twitter employees despise Elon Musk. It follows logically that many of them will leave twitter. Prior to their exit I believe many will sabotage the software, database and servers. Since they have expert knowledge of the system they can put in bugs that will be very difficult to detect. Also they can put in backdoors allowing them to access the system after they have left. With these things in mind I expect twitter to have frequent crashes, ransomware attacks and server failures.
It will be a few months before he can get control which gives the employees plenty of time to sabotage twitter. I also expect them to take the source code, database and server configurations with them when they leave to they can quickly and easily make a platform for liberals.
Any thoughts on this fellow freepers?
Even if they don’t engage in outright sabotage most will simply drag their feed and engage in what will effectively be a work slow down. Musk acquired a viper’s nest.
Hope he has plans to deal with the subversive elements.
I read about one guy that knew he was getting let go at the end of his shift, so he spent his last shift nailing all the computer wires to the floor. They had to replace pretty much everything.
They may just resort to physical sabotage.
Agree. He had to know this wouldn’t be smooth sailing. He understands the liberal mindset better than most.
The people working at Twitter are probably the off spring of the departing staff from the Clinton Administration who removed the “W” from keyboards. They’ve come a long way.
“Sabotage is a criminal offense.”
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For some people but not for Lefties.
These woke companies have left-wing employees with a percentage in the high 90s. I wonder how they accomplish this - probably with sly tricks during HR Interviews or just checking social media. Not ethical but then they wouldn’t be on the left if they were ethical.
True, but their activity (including approvals) is also carefully logged. I'm at that level in my company and even I'm not allowed to have any kind of full rein. Often when I request a new transaction for myself, I have to give up others in order to stay in SOX compliance (as another poster pointed out earler). No one individual is allowed to unilaterally make major changes without having to get approval from others. It's a check and balance system that works pretty effectively.
I have no idea how Twitter is setup and perhaps they have more latitude over there, but based on the practices of the company I work for, sabotaging the system is very difficult to do and especially to get away with.
Let’s hope so. However the prosecution would take years and Musk’s team would have to contend with left-leaning DA’s who may not decide to prosecute.
I don’t understand why they ‘despise’ Musk. Is it because of this takeover and his insistence on free speech, or does it predate that?
He’s enormously wealthy, but so is everyone running social media.
With good GIT branching strategy, and with pull requests requiring multiple approvals, it is nearly impossible to sabotage code at the source level.
And even if they did, you could just wind the source back to before the sabotage.
The REAL sabotage would come in the form of hacking, DDOS, database corruption, and so on.
If it can be traced to an individual they will be wearing orange jumpsuits. You can’t wreck the place you work just because you are quitting.
Stealing source code is one huge felony and civil offense.
Source code repositories are your friend.
Exactly. SW management keeps track of all changes to the source code. All changes must be vetted before becoming part of the operational system. Keeping a digital copy of the operational source code (including libraries, meta files, configuration files, databases, servers, addresses&) is a good idea. Any suspicious changes can be detected using a simple compare operation. Yea for free speech.
not to mention that software these days uses a repository that handles version control. Its part of how software companies control access to the source code and revert to older code if there is a problem with new code. Any change is traceable to a user and any change that is bad can be switched back to the known-good code in just a few minutes.
This.
And where will they get all the money to put in that new platform and equipment they need? Look at Truth Social , it has become a Bomb and now Irrelevant. Hey the Liberals could buy it.
Where were all the Liberal Billionaires like Bloomberg that could have put up a counteroffer to buy Twitter or others like Blackjack, etc., nowhere to be found were they. They did not want the company so why are the Liberals whinning about it, they had their chance and let it go.
Musk will face some of the same problems that Trump faced, hate-filled, power-hungry people resenting the outsider. I’m sure that soon we’ll hear of the rise of The Resistance inside Twitter.
Right o, any new code will stick out like a sore thumb in a src control system like GIT. Plus Musk has some extremely talented sw people working in his current companies that can be utilized to oversee.
It's proprietary. Lawsuit would follow and I don't think the courts and judges in that area are political like the local and state criminal area. They deal with big business, corporate law etc and have to be professional.
Likewise with the whole system. It's very high end just like financial institutions have. An employee can't wreak havoc easily. There are safeguards in place and every action of every user is logged.
Not impossible to sabotage but very hard to do so without leaving a trail.
Because 44 billion for twitter is insane. Most of the billionaires care about their money and their mansions. It’s a bad deal.
Musk is a couch surfing genius weirdo on the spectrum who may be bipolar who does things his own way. Maybe he doesn’t care about losing 44 billion.
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