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Twitter whistleblower report is much crazier than anything in the "Twitter files" (threadreaderapp.com)
submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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  • 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.
  • Twitter had security incidents serious enough they had to be reported to the federal government on an almost weekly basis.
  • whistleblower wanted to take action to prevent potential sabotage by a rogue employee. He learned it was not possible for Twitter to secure its production environment.
  • Mudge realized that a data center failure could potentially cause the permanent loss of all of Twitter's data. He shared this fact with senior leadership, who instructed him not to put it in writing for the Board.
  • Twitter had no software development lifecycle, and misled both the FTC and its Board about this fact for a decade.
  • Mudge informed Agrawal that there were thousands of failed login attempts to Twitter's engineering system every day. Agrawal did nothing.
  • Twitter did not keep backups of employee computers. They used to, but then the system broke, was never fixed, and execs decided this was good because it meant they couldn't comply with regulators.
  • "Every new employee has access to data they do not need to have access to."
  • Twitter does not have licenses for the machine learning models it uses in its most basic products.
  • Twitter knowingly allowed itself to be infiltrated by, or otherwise a tool of, many governments.
  • After Agrawal became CEO, he wanted to present materially misleading information to the Board, overriding Mudge's objections. Other employees raised similar objections. Ultimately it seems the material was shared anyway, and Mudge described the presentation to the Board as fraud.
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Holy moly.....

It sure seems to me that big Tech thinks that they are better than everyone else because they've been making money because of factors outside of their control, when in reality there's a lot of stuff they're light years behind on stuff considered business critical in any other industry.

That's right we're going, it'll be a very hard landing.