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Page 40 has a redaction over the circumstances under which Mudge was terminated. The intro mentions a Board Member who silenced Mudge and the reactions are don

Page 40 has a redaction over the circumstances under which Mudge was terminated. The intro mentions a Board Member who silenced Mudge and the reactions are done in two blocks so you can infer who that person was. This whole report is a clown show. This is Elon’s attempt to burn US taxpayer money helping launder him out of having to pay ~$10b to walk away from Twitter. It sounds like Mudge has his own litigation regarding severance. So it was a no-brained to join Musk’s mercenaries. This issue is not worth taxpayer time. You want less regulation? Then stop crying wolf to Congress, and more importantly, stop just doing dumb stuff like buying a company you can’t actually run.

flomo 4y ago
Twitter is under a FTC consent degree, which they allegedly have been grossly violating, so the taxpayers are already up in their business.
- deleted 4y ago
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m00x 4y ago
That's a rather large claim without any substantial evidence. This is HN and it only serves as a court of opinions, and Elon isn't popular right now, but let's keep ourselves intellectually honest. Twitter has had several security issues, including Saudi spies[1], a large-scale hack of several celebrities[2], and even recent ones[3]. Twitter is one of the largest tech companies and a very important town square. Mudge was hired to do a job by Dorsey, and the newly appointed execs made it very clear that they don't give a shit about security, when the lack of safety measures has been demonstrated to be dangerous to the public. [1] https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/09/twitter-spy-convicted-saudi-arabia/ https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/09/twitter-spy-convicted-saud... [2] https://www.thewrap.com/teen-mastermind-behind-elon-musk-joe-biden-twitter-hack-gets-3-years-behind-bars/ https://www.thewrap.com/teen-mastermind-behind-elon-musk-joe... [3] https://www.hackread.com/twitter-data-breach-accounts-sold-hacker-forum/ https://www.hackread.com/twitter-data-breach-accounts-sold-h...
- blitzar 4y ago
  > That's a rather large claim without any substantial evidence. > Twitter is one of the largest tech companies and a very important town square. 94th on the chart [1] - as for a town square I respectfully disagree, its a website - 12th according to rankings. Just nudges infront of the other famous town square, pornhub and a little further behind, linkedin. Half the 'traffic' of reddit, and 1/3 of apple somehow, not to mention the giant in the room, facebook. Surely if there is a town square that is it ... i doubt many would even agree with that. > the newly appointed execs made it very clear that they don't give a shit about security Allegedly > when the lack of safety measures has been demonstrated to be dangerous to the public. I am yet to see said demonstration. Are we worried that XYZ blue checkmark twitter users public tweets are not encrypted at rest on their servers? Or that the entire corpus of the library of twitter might be lost in an catastrophic event? [1] https://companiesmarketcap.com/tech/largest-tech-companies-by-market-cap/ https://companiesmarketcap.com/tech/largest-tech-companies-b... [2] https://www.semrush.com/blog/most-visited-websites/ https://www.semrush.com/blog/most-visited-websites/ (oh how i miss alexa)
  - aaaaaaaaata 4y ago
    They're one of 3-5 very popular malls in the only Town.
aaaaaaaaata 4y ago
Implying it can be "properly" run seems mildly disingenuous in the context of your otherwise fair comment.
- maxbond 4y ago
  They didn't imply that there was a proper way to run Twitter (they stated Musk was unfit to run Twitter without addressing whether anyone was more fit), and if it did it wouldn't have been disingenuous. It is not disingenuous to believe there is a proper way to run Twitter, that's just an opinion you may disagree with.
  - aaaaaaaaata 4y ago
    It's yet to be proven it's possible. I'll stay tuned to see if it happens, like everyone else.

flomo 4y ago

Twitter is under a FTC consent degree, which they allegedly have been grossly violating, so the taxpayers are already up in their business.

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m00x 4y ago

That's a rather large claim without any substantial evidence. This is HN and it only serves as a court of opinions, and Elon isn't popular right now, but let's keep ourselves intellectually honest. Twitter has had several security issues, including Saudi spies[1], a large-scale hack of several celebrities[2], and even recent ones[3]. Twitter is one of the largest tech companies and a very important town square. Mudge was hired to do a job by Dorsey, and the newly appointed execs made it very clear that they don't give a shit about security, when the lack of safety measures has been demonstrated to be dangerous to the public. [1] https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/09/twitter-spy-convicted-saudi-arabia/ https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/09/twitter-spy-convicted-saud... [2] https://www.thewrap.com/teen-mastermind-behind-elon-musk-joe-biden-twitter-hack-gets-3-years-behind-bars/ https://www.thewrap.com/teen-mastermind-behind-elon-musk-joe... [3] https://www.hackread.com/twitter-data-breach-accounts-sold-hacker-forum/ https://www.hackread.com/twitter-data-breach-accounts-sold-h...

blitzar 4y ago
> That's a rather large claim without any substantial evidence. > Twitter is one of the largest tech companies and a very important town square. 94th on the chart [1] - as for a town square I respectfully disagree, its a website - 12th according to rankings. Just nudges infront of the other famous town square, pornhub and a little further behind, linkedin. Half the 'traffic' of reddit, and 1/3 of apple somehow, not to mention the giant in the room, facebook. Surely if there is a town square that is it ... i doubt many would even agree with that. > the newly appointed execs made it very clear that they don't give a shit about security Allegedly > when the lack of safety measures has been demonstrated to be dangerous to the public. I am yet to see said demonstration. Are we worried that XYZ blue checkmark twitter users public tweets are not encrypted at rest on their servers? Or that the entire corpus of the library of twitter might be lost in an catastrophic event? [1] https://companiesmarketcap.com/tech/largest-tech-companies-by-market-cap/ https://companiesmarketcap.com/tech/largest-tech-companies-b... [2] https://www.semrush.com/blog/most-visited-websites/ https://www.semrush.com/blog/most-visited-websites/ (oh how i miss alexa)
- aaaaaaaaata 4y ago
  They're one of 3-5 very popular malls in the only Town.

aaaaaaaaata 4y ago

Implying it can be "properly" run seems mildly disingenuous in the context of your otherwise fair comment.

maxbond 4y ago
They didn't imply that there was a proper way to run Twitter (they stated Musk was unfit to run Twitter without addressing whether anyone was more fit), and if it did it wouldn't have been disingenuous. It is not disingenuous to believe there is a proper way to run Twitter, that's just an opinion you may disagree with.
- aaaaaaaaata 4y ago
  It's yet to be proven it's possible. I'll stay tuned to see if it happens, like everyone else.