I'm surprised I haven't yet seen anyone mention the risk of insider threats. It only takes one pissed off person with the right knowledge to do a disproportion

I'm surprised I haven't yet seen anyone mention the risk of insider threats. It only takes one pissed off person with the right knowledge to do a disproportionate amount of damage to the company. Twitter is in an especially risky position right now: 1. The sheer size of the layoffs increase the odds at least one former employee wants to retaliate. 2. The manner of the layoffs increase the chances that former employees feel slighted. 3. The source of the layoffs is an individual (i.e. not something abstract like a falling economy), giving them an articulable target. 4. No longer having equity means former employees have less interest in its ongoing success. 5. The scale of the departures mean many former employees will no longer know anyone still there and so harm wouldn't befall someone they know. 6. The layoffs include roles with access to sensitive information. That could be anything from trade secrets, to credentials, to where the proverbial bodies are buried. 7. Security teams that would normally mitigate some of this risk might no longer be fully functioning. I'm not confident enough to say it will happen -- only that the risk is much, much higher than normal.