Back on Christmas Eve of last year there were some reports that Elon Musk was in the process of shutting down Twitter’s Sacramento data center. In that article, a number of ex-Twitter employees wer…

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    1 year ago

    Looks like you’re the type the writer talks about at the end:

    There’s something to be said for pushing back on needless rules and bureaucracy, but it helps if you actually understand stuff before doing so, rather than doing something like this that had half a dozen ways it could have ended in serious disaster and possible tragedy. The fact that it “only” resulted in Twitter falling over every few weeks for months likely means that Musk and his supporters got the very wrong lesson out of this.

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      1 year ago

      What risks, exactly? Twitter goes down? Proprietary Twitter data gets stolen in some server heist scenario?

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        Millions of people’s personal data gets leaked, Musk’s cowboy “pry open the floor and electrical panels with a knife” electrocutes him, or blows the power for the room/floor/building or starts a fire.

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        The servers were not actually secured in the truck properly, so another scenario would have been the damage and destruction of some or all of them.

        Plus, yes, theft. And it’s not just proprietary data, it was also personal and financial data for users and advertisers.

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          I imagine thousands of pounds of unsecured load would be potentially dangerous for the driver and all other drivers on the road too.