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?
The software went into lockdown before the sale was agreed to, certainly as a precondition from Musk.
Musk is certainly no fool. He must have anticipated and planned for these situations. Especially when spending 44 billion dollars.
I saw something in a writeup saying the code had been ‘locked’ in anticipation of sabotage efforts. I’m sure the enterprising saboteurs (and they will be numerous), will still find ways to royally screw Twit up.
Nothing can be done...criminals gonna do criminal things and Mr. Musk can’t prevent that. The people that would do sabotage didn’t just wake up this morning and decide to do the crime, most likely they have larceny in their souls and this won’t be their first act of mischief.
ABC News
January 6, 2006, 6:11 PM
Jan. 23, 2001 -- Aides to President Bush are working on a mystery: the case of the missing W's.
Many aides in the new administration assigned to the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, adjacent to the White House, discovered Monday that their computer keyboards were missing the "W" key ā a critical problem given their boss' name is George W. Bush, and he is often referred to simply as "W," to distinguish him from his presidential dad.
Musk, like Trump plays hardball. He will have own people, and legal team in place when he walks in the door.
It has been reported that the git repositories have been “locked” and any changes to code require VP approval.
Database contents are a different matter...
The lockdown is good. But who monitors and enforces the lockdown?
All this speculation is the typical nonsense people have devolved into.
Software “lockdowns” and escrow are common with all merger and acquisitions.
New platforms don’t do so well.
Source code repositories are your friend.
Given the size of their IT shop Iām certain there is accountability via SOX compliance. This is a change control process with layered levels of approval before changes can be implemented. Those who circumvent said process are subject to immediate termination as it can place the stock at risk if reported as a SOX violation. Whatever they are doing, only an abysmal idiot would try to work around the system and even then, the controls in place could easily identify the attempt.
I'm not denigrating those who use it but...I've always considered it a form of mental masturbation.
I don’t think we have to tell Elon Musk, what to get ready for.
Elon hass a clean, gold copy....I promise it is backed up all over...a scan will be done across all software for changes that have been made. Could it happen? Yes, but it will be detected quickly.
For the VP approval to code changes - the VP may be in on the sabotage.
I’m sure the courts will frown upon “harm” done to a $44B deal.
I expect Musk’s team to prosecute everyone involved for such shenanigans.
Sabotage is a criminal offense. It’s easy to track back who did what. A quick reminder that anyone participating will be prosecuted to the full extent should curb some enthusiasm for mischief.
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