> 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-b...
[2] https://www.semrush.com/blog/most-visited-websites/ (oh how i miss alexa)
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-saud... [2] https://www.thewrap.com/teen-mastermind-behind-elon-musk-joe... [3] https://www.hackread.com/twitter-data-breach-accounts-sold-h...