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?
I could care less. I never went on Twatter and quit Facenook after a year or two in its beginning.
Good way to get in trouble with hackers and all that.
Bad enough with email...which I dont use either anymore, or text.
How about a letter in the mail? Or if your a friend or relative...just pick up your phone and press the button to call.
There is one big problem that the new owners of Twitter will face. They are using Cloud service databases for their operations. This means they are vulnerable to being shut down externally. Especially if they are using Amazon Web Services databases like Redshift. I believe the next step will be a shutdown of Twitter by AWS or others.
I wouldn’t worry about sabotage. No doubt, they took an image of the software, and can spot unauthorized changes.
As for stealing the technology and starting a liberal platform - again, I wouldn’t worry. If it was that easy, conservatives would have done it. It takes a lot more than technology to become the world’s biggest social platform.
Think back a half a century to when Bell Telephone had their 4” thick telephone books that everyone used. Let’s say you had the assets and technology to start your own telephone company, and you could even offer services at a much lower cost.
What would you say to the first potential customer when you went out on your first door-to-door sales call? “For now, you’ll be the only listing on our network, so you won’t be able to call anyone - but think of all the savings!!”
And besides, even allowing for the worst case scenario, where Twitter is completely destroyed by sabotage or competition… isn’t that still wonderful news?
Twitter was censoring conservative speech - if it can’t be fixed, let it be destroyed. We are still better off, and Elon Musk will survive.
Trolling much?
And just how the heck would you know that “It is safe to say that 90 percent of Twitter employees despise Elon Musk”?
Musk has already put all software into lockdown.
Wanna try again, Mister Troll?
Okay, here goes...
[22 years in software development and database design]
Word has it the VP has locked the code. Good luck with that. Long before Musk began making moves, someone has backups of the code. (probably happens nightly anyway). All code is probably in repos, with unit-testing included. This will help detect someone tinkering with the code from this point forward.
What you really watch out for is someone deleting the logs. In many cases, logs are not kept in repos, but pushed out somewhere for later retrieval (e.g. AWS s3, Azure data lake, etc). Logs are like a footprint or as I called it a ‘tail pipe’. If someone does something funky, it’ll show up in the logs.
From the chatter that I’m seeing, it sounds like most of the blowhards at Twit who are butthurt probably don’t work in the IT realm, and are thus easily replaceable. If you’re a code monkey (such as myself), it would be easier for those unhappy folk to simply give notice and find work elsewhere. For us, it’s a seller’s market; the ‘pandemic’ did nothing to hurt our industry - it only expanded it. However, since social media is a double-edged sword in our line of work, screwing around with code on the way out can be a career killer. You see, it’s a small world for us. Words like ‘sabotage’ gets tied to your name, and that gets around, you become radioactive in the software world; i.e, no one wants you around their systems.
Databases: normally don’t get place into repos. Musk must make sure to have ALL the db passwords and permissions changed. If he is smart, that should be an ongoing process as we speak along with full db backups.
No doubt NDA (non-disclosure agreement) papers are being reviewed and passed around to employees at this time. Many have already signed them long before they began hating on The Musk Man. Going ‘antifa jihad’ on the software platform could have folks in jail - or worse.
Finally, the big picture...
Many of us have forgotten that Musk is holding the Deep State by the gonads in Ukraine. Because if Starlink, there is still internet there. And as one who believes that social media censorship on major platforms comes from deep-state directives, and not the social media gurus themselves, they have to be nice to Elon, at least for now. After all, without a good comms network on the ground, there are only so many Russian flag officers you can ID and kill. Just saying...
So, I suspect the Venture Capital money will attempt to lure the top coders to the new project (what ever that is)_ forcing Elon to fetch a whole new staff to keep twitter going. Let me say in closing that our side should stop hoping and wishing for Pres #45 to get re-instated (whatever he says goes viral anyway). The #1 goal of this new Twitter should be to KILL ALL THE BOTS. period. That alone will do wonders.
just my $0.02 (back to coding I go)
jimjohn - OUT.
A good warning. Think of the disgruntled Twitter employees texting eager MSM drones with “look at how everything fell apart as soon as Musk took over!!!” disinfo.
Tesla has it’s own massive server farms.
Simple enough for Musk to move Twitter to Tesla servers.
Musk is probably working on that as we speak.
You talk like Musk doesn’t know what he’s doing when he does more than anybody.
Which is totally irrelevant since Musk is taking Twitter private.
You got anything else?
Yes. They hate free speech. It is a direct challenge to their power.
You are worrying over nothing.
Just how long do you think Musk has been in software?
The guy created two huge successful software companies and he is one of the smartest men out there.
How many big successful software companies have you ever created?
44 billion for saving Western Civilization may be a good tradeoff.
There was likely a huge escrow requirement. You can’t spend that much money and have one person destroy the entire company too easily. I’m sure it could be done like a WorldCom, but I’d say this is HIGHLY unlikely. The current people in charge just simply lost and will have to walk away otherwise face huge prison time if they sabotage such a deal.
They don’t have any power. They just like to think they do.
Musk has plenty of power every way you look at it.
“The software went into lockdown before the sale was agreed to, certainly as a precondition from Musk.”
Beyond that, anyone trying to be ‘cute’ will leave breadcrumbs and could easily find their entire lives ruined.
“White House Mystery: Missing W’s”
That was, perhaps, the only time in my years that I’ve seen liberals behave like they have a sense of humor.
Twitter has been reverse engineered for quite awhile now. There are several open source clones available for anyone who wants to start one themselves. What is unique and what they might want to hide are the algorithms and automated content control and “alerts” to Moderators. And their data mining methods.
If he is straight up, Musk needs to make it open source, this would make it a transparent open book that can be reviewed and monitored by the public. One thing they will not do is open source their data mining methods and code. I think even with Musk they will continue to data mine and sell that data. It is too much a part of their revenue if not most of it.
Most likely,, many of those with access have been working on this since he first bought 9% of the crapbox platform, many weeks ago.
Folks, most modern software houses do not work this way, and haven't for the past 20+ years, this being all due to advances in software versioning systems (Git, SVN, etc).
If someone attempted to sabotage the system, those changes are rolled back to the working version by a few commands being issued.
So is it worth it to risk prosecution by sabotaging code that you know will be reverted to its working state in a matter of minutes?
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