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Correct me if I'm wrong, but Twitter knew about this vulnerability back in January, and they either didn't check to see if it was exploited, or they didn't disclose that it was, or they didn't have enough observability/audit controls in place to see 5.4M requests for account data that used this vulnerability?

That seems like gross negligence to me no matter what the reason for that is, but I play in a much smaller pond and maybe I just don't understand that the cost to do things ethically at scale is always greater than cleanup.

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I believe you're correct, and remember, this is a grossly mismanaged company at all levels, from the top down.

That could explain Elon Musk’s sudden reversal. I don’t understand his motives for proposing-then-withdrawing (the other theory is that the market crashed and he wanted to halve the price, but he’s a senior, anyone could have guessed that the market was on a downwards trend; another theory is that he didn’t expect such opposition and withdrew seeing that he was seen as the bad guy).

Or he farted out a tweet about buying Twitter. Then woke up next day and changed his mind?

Did he also fart out the merger contract and the signature he put on it?

A tweet isn't a binding offer last I checked.

waiting for twitter to change their ToS to include a line "if you announce an offer to buy twitter via twitter then that offer is considered a valid contract."

I'm pretty sure he couldn't draft a merger contract.

Technically a tweet could form a binding contract, but yes, my point is he publicly announces things, then changes his mind, rather than thinking about if he does actually want to do the thing before wasting everyone's time.

Why did he buy 10% of twitter stick? That wasn't a momentary lapse of judgement.

Is a severe compromise an exception clause in Musk’s contract? I’ve read summaries of it but never the actual contract but I don’t know

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