Posted on 12/13/2022 11:18:14 PM PST by Ultra Sonic 007
The stuff uncovered in the Twitter whistleblower report is much crazier than anything in the "Twitter files" but it's much less politically/tribally salient so it got no attention. Going to do a thread on some of the craziest things, in no particular order.
Twitter didn't monitor employee computers at all, it was not uncommon for employees to install spyware on work devices.
Twitter does not have separate development, test, staging, and production environments. At least 5,000 employees had privileged access to production systems...
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I wonder if the chinese restaurants around there were a thriving hub of activity?
I'm not. This kind of crap happens quite frequently. Businesses / Organizations that don't have automated compliance enforcement policies & mechanisms see this kind of crap all the time.
Twatter's no different from more places I'm aware of than I can shake a stick at.
I work in financial services which is heavily regulated. We have our own automated compliance enforcement systems, backed up by manual audits and fed oversight who comes in and frequently audits our systems for sh*t like this. Not saying it could never happen where I work however the chances of it doing so are so slightly remote that if someone were to manage to manipulate the system, it would be discovered in minutes measured in the single digits and that device would automatically be removed from our network to prevent corruption/damage to our systems.
So unless a business / organization has the money to spend on these kinds of automated protective measures, this kind of crap happens all the time. Seen it first hand.
Just damn.
It’s becoming more and more obvious that Elon Musk bought a $43 billion ongoing crime scene.
I want to hear your reaction to this one!
Non-citizens - think H1B workers - uniformly do not even understand or comprehend the Western idea of Right and Wrong.
I am sure there are exceptions. But once an HR dept starts using foreigners to create lists of potential new employees, the recruiters will game the system and get jobs for their buddies from overseas. Or for a cut of the expected wages.
Watched it happen and have lived it.
I get it. People hire people that are like them. But the HR oversight we expect simply does not exist in companies like Twit, Alphabet and M$.
And we as a country are poorer for it.
So far what we are seeing is devastating and I can’t imagine any defendant wanting to take the stand against the case of fraud being built up.
So how does he extract the refund, I wonder?
Huh, I never did trust Twitter but just wow!
Wow! Twitter was nothing but a Nike store with smashed out windows during a BLM picnic.
later
Ditto, but I think we can both agree that this was not about lack of 'money'.
They were equal opportunity they accepted bribes from the FBI and CIA as well.
Question:
These people who were blocked and compromised, do they sue Musk as he is the new owner of Twitter, or do they sue the former owners?
If they sue the former owners, does their civil liability insurance defend them or are the on their own?
IOWs, by exposing all the corruption and defamation that occurred doesn’t that out Musk’s Twitter at risk? Did he assume all prior liability?
Good questions! Inquiring minds want to know!
Spot on. This is also what's happening with voting. It's not about "doing what is right to do". It's about doing what I can get away with.
I’m sure Laz will respond in a eloquent, biting and witty way.
Can’t wait. I’m grabbing the popcorn...
Don't know for sure, but I would think they would sue Twitter. Then if they are successful Musk would go after the ex-Twitter people.
Twitter is a corporation, a limited liability corporation.
The stockholders can’t be sued. The board of directors is probably liable to a lawsuit brought by stockholders. However, Elon Musk bought them out and they were paid.
I’m not a lawyer and never played one on TV but doubt the individuals can be meaningfully sued. The whole of corporate being is the concept of limited liability of stockholders
Yes, it happens. In 2006 I was working internal security for a major defense contractor. My work cube was next to the regional IT security manager. One day, we got a call from corporate IT security that sensitive corporate data was moving from our location, to a corp location in Portland, Oregon and on to places unknown.
When we began our investigation, we immedietly discovered that the leak was coming from the IT security managers computer. Unplugging the computer ended the leak.
We never did find out how the leak began, in spite of NSA grabbing a disk image and running their own investigation.
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