Twitter security staff kept firm in compliance by disobeying Musk, FTC says
Twitter security staff kept firm in compliance by disobeying Musk, FTC says
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Twitter security staff kept firm in compliance by disobeying Musk, FTC says
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He violated US law by giving a 3rd party individual complete access to Twitter's info, who tf did this ass wipe give it to? Putin?
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I think they should use that picture of him every time.
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The cringey old university photo is more amusing.
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We contacted X today, but an auto-reply informed us that the company was busy and asked that we check back later.
lol
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That's an upgrade from the poop emoji that they were sending out right after Elongated Muskrat took over.
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Ultimately the third-party individuals did not receive direct access to Twitter's systems, but instead worked with other company employees who accessed the systems on the individuals' behalf.
So they got the data anyway...
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Manbaby.
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He looks like such a dweeb in that jacket
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Twitter employees prevented Elon Musk from violating the company's privacy settlement with the US government, according to Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan.
The access given to outside individuals raised concerns that Twitter (which is currently named X) violated a 2022 settlement with the FTC, which has requirements designed to prevent repeats of previous security failures.
The deposition testimony revealed that in early December 2022, Elon Musk had reportedly directed staff to grant an outside third-party individual "full access to everything at Twitter... No limits at all."
When contacted by Ars, an FTC spokesperson said the agency cannot rule out bringing lawsuits against Musk's social network for violations of the settlement or US law.
"When we heard credible public reports of potential violations of protections for Twitter users' data, we moved swiftly to investigate," the FTC said in a statement today.
In a filing, US government lawyers said the FTC investigation had "revealed a chaotic environment at the company that raised serious questions about whether and how Musk and other leaders were ensuring X Corp.'s compliance with the 2022 Administrative Order."
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Disobeying. As though he's their master. Gross.
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Everybody who is still there must see him as their master, either voluntarily due to a cult-like demeanor or due to visa restrictions that equal servitude.
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"twitter (which is currently named x)"
amazing
Fucking brain dead rebrand
They had a brand that was so powerful it was used as a verb, and he gave it up for the letter that is used as a generic placeholder, just because he's obssessed with it for whatever reason.
It's so they can salvage the original brand once the business dies - not because of Musk's mismanagement, but because it has $13bn of debt out of the $44bn purchase.
Its a good use of brevity. Otherwise it would look like this:
While funny, it wasn't intended as a burn. They are reporting on events that happened at Twitter, because it was named Twitter when these things happened, and is now called X.
It won't always be called X. 2027: Elon buys a domain registrar. 2031: Elon buys unicode. 2032: Elon allows unicode in domain names. The same day, Elon adds an "Xtreme X" emoji to unicode (it sort of looks like it's spinning, xtreme style), and registers the domain.
I'm hoping for something like: