caetris1

This virus will be here for eternity. It's a plot point in our story.

Here is a recent video from a meetup hosted by LinkedIn where an engineer explains exactly how LinkedIn advertising works. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2YLoyFXvIY&list=PLihIrF0tCX...

Doubtful.

I've never heard of Hacker News censoring comments that do not abuse the site guidelines, with rational opinions. This comment thread is being heavily censored. This fundamentally abuses the trust that users have put into this site.

My original comment was deleted, so I'll try this again.

I've read the comments here and quite surprisingly there are a lot of folks saying that the value of this hack isn't worth more than roughly one year's salary at Twitter (as an intern). I appreciate the pragmatism, but unlikely.

Anyone with this kind of exploit could have sold it, moved to Russia, and received immunity from extradition. Secondly, people should be scrutinizing any moron willing to give away thousands of dollars to billionaires for a promise of a 2x return. Especially in these times.

So, reason can only allow us to arrive at a most likely cause. That this was indeed an inside job. It was not about money. It was not a security flaw. But rather, it was simply a group of employees that were unhappy with Twitter allowing the federal government to investigate bad actors on the platform behind closed doors.

And here is why: https://www.scribd.com/document/467148777/DHS-Social-Media-L...

I like your thinking. This is a novel idea.

Has anyone replicated the issue described by the Twitter user? It's probably important to verify these kinds of claims before they get upvoted. This looks and feels like disinformation.

It's cloud-native Visual Basic.

Clever. Nice work.

Personal opinion here. If you trace the funding of anything on the internet, you usually get to the bottom of things. Here is an article that was published on WIRED that traces those roots. https://www.wired.com/story/freedom-from-facebook-open-marke...

I think what the site says is basically true, but also I think it's vaguely disingenuous.

Factual, I was there.

They decided on Java and .NET because they needed to hire contractors in DC that had those skills.

If there was any way to translate the legacy code running on mainframes into a Java application, naturally, there would be an infrastructure migration issue. The new plan plainly states that the infrastructure is dependent on: "Establish Cloud Management Office and Cloud Governance", which also depends on installing the new "Procure and deliver ECM Release 1 Cloud platform on Treasury Cloud".

This stuff takes a lot of time and they've been preparing for the change since 2015. This is entirely not simple.

https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-utl/irs_2019_integrated_moderniz...

See page 29 for details.