Posted on 10/28/2022 10:03:07 PM PDT by ransomnote
Following his takeover of Twitter, Tesla CEO Elon Musk reportedly had Tesla engineers review Twitter’s software code and prevented Twitter engineers from making further changes.
Bloomberg reports that on Thursday, Elon Musk arrived at Twitter offices to officially confirm his company takeover after the $44 billion purchase deal closed. As part of his takeover, Musk fired top executives including CEO Parag Agrawal, CFO Ned Segal, and Vijaya Gadde, head of legal policy, trust, and safety. The company’s general counsel, Sean Edgett, was also let ago according to sources and all were promptly escorted out of the company’s offices in San Francisco.
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This is gonna be so crazy fun.... LOL
Guarantee you those software engineers have so many back doors embedded in so many routines within the coding that it will take a complete shutdown of the servers containing the code and many hours of scanning runs to identify them all. Software engineers believe in job security and make sure any job losses trigger failsafe and kill switches. Just say in
My running assumption is that any changes to code is logged for time and date?
nonsense
Kinda depends who wrote the logging software and who controls access to the logging data files.
I’m sure the Tesla staff is making backups as well.
Don’t want a disgruntled employee wiping out everything.
Reminds me of this guy, not disgruntled, who did a format c on a major system.
They didn’t fire him for that.
They fired him a week later when he put cinnamon in the coffee.
Yeah, and in the time that the deal was underway if they started sabotaging things they will be getting sued and pursued. Hope it was worth it. And Musk’s boys -will- be able to figure it out.
This may still be a criminal case in the making. That’s what I’m interested in.
One US city I read about, one of the city’s data base techs. He was told he’d be losing his job. He spent his shift erasing the entire data base. It cost the city something like $150,000 to get it all back.
Hmm. Do Tesla engineers have the time to do this and their jobs at Tesla? Sounds implausible.
I don’t think taking one engineer from each project that he has will slow him down on the other projects by much.
True if they were careless. Original authors with longtime access would leave no traces unless they just weren’t very good programmers. But as they say in the IT world, nothing more dangerous or sneaky than a programmer that considers themselves irreplaceable. They tend to defend that “they can’t replace me” very tightly.
Welcome to the real world kiddies. Learn to mine coal.
Y’all guys kind of make me laugh.
I have a Degree in Computuer science.
I can design computer languages, Compilers, Interpreters. et al.
I also am an electronics engineer that knows how the electronics work at the lowest levels.
Coders are overpaid idiots, so are most electronics engineer
fresh out of school.
Any decent guy like me can take their system apart, if they didn’t booby trap the whole darn thing.
if they did we can re-write it because we know how to do it from transistor to RTL, to Microcode.
Full disclosure; my favorite job was Real time software.
look that one up.
I know one thing. Software Engineers are very jealous. I was working on NATO AWACS upgrade. The COMM software hadn’t been all written yet. One engineer came in one day and saw me writing some Tuning software to tune the radios and set up the software that told the radios what seat they were assigned too. He had a fit anyway I talked to another engineer and he told me to have fun with it.. So anyway I gave the little software package a Tyner Tune name and they used it to get the planes ready through testing..
Wouldn’t their coders have been whacking and hacking continuously since day one 6 months ago? Remember how tons of conservatives doubled their follower count within a couple days of the announcement?
If some IT people had really important and useful things to do they would not make so many useless changes to software. For example my bank that changes the look and layout of the online banking software at least three times a year. All cosmetic, confusing, unnecessary. They do things like changing the order of data columns so when I download it to my spreadsheet I have to recompile it to fit my column formats. Every year it is just a little different from the last year.
Useless and a waste of time. Job security and justification for IT.
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