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?
Time bombs could have been inserted when he first talked about the sale, with the intent that they could be removed if the sale fell through.
I cited the original article. Read better. Be better.
Also considering most employees have stock options that become quite valuable at the close and would lose it all if they did something like this....is yet another reason it won’t happen.
“So how come Twitter stock has performed terribly since their IPO in 2013?”
The real question is how did they stay afloat for almost ten years with such a bad stock record?
The answer is in my assertion which is historical knowledge in the Twitter circles. This fact has been understood for years.
Until recently I was a member of Twitter since the very beginning. I have been watching Twitter evolve play by play every step of the way to what they are now.
Well you sure as heck didn’t cite me.
You made up sh*t and tried to attribute it to me.
It is already morphing into a Musk cult. Even with some here. We still have absolutely no clue where the ball is going to fall on the roulette wheel yet.
That is new how?
There are plenty of firms that have been on the stock market for much longer and have performed terribly. Nothing new about that.
Sorry, but I’m not going to put him on a pedestal and jump on board with your new Musk cult. Been burned too many times. We still have no clue how this will turn out yet. The whole thing could be a “baiting the hook” operation. Time will tell...
Nobody asked you to, least of all, me.
and jump on board with your new Musk cult.
I have been following Musk's investments and companies for over 12 years. There is nothing “new” anout it.
Of course he overpaid, the company is worth maybe $300 million tops. They have no real assets , just a brand name and that isn’t worth $44 Billion.
Musk reworks the company, takes it public again and gets out.
A lot of code lockdown is done by a supervisor system where ever piece of code accessed has to be checked out and checked back in and monitored. I can’t swear there’s not some way to break the system, but I know the company is going to have many checkpoints and guards against meddling and sabotage—both internal and external.
But it is an entirely punitive act as implemented.
Still, it does function to the degree that most IT shops have implemented strict change-control procedures with multiple levels of approvals involved.
This ensures that should they be audited, that they can approve all software changes were verified, validated and approved by management. I've seen people dismissed for trying to push code without approvals. It's an easy thing to catch in a simple audit.
And should it get caught by an auditor and not internally, there is hell to pay. It can be reported to Wall Street and stocks would take a hit out of fear for integrity of the reported earnings.
Absolutely.
And the behavior of Twitter seems to be changing.
But they may not need to change source code if they know just just what fields in the database to manipulate.
And developers may, or actually are likely to, have their own tools for that which are not part of the official Twitter source code.
I probably have 50 experimental development projects sitting around on my work hard drive from the last 10 years work which are not committed to any repository. I don’t work for Twitter.
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