Twitter says source code was leaked on GitHub
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And then what?
Thinking about Musk saying that reminded me that I use that people speaking in absolutes as a heuristic for what I think is unwisdom.
I do believe that he was a different person just like 10 years ago. then mortal problems stopped having any meaning to him and he derailed into the right-wing billionaire's club. nowadays its only propaganda and seeking the reinforcement loop feeling that he still is a smart dude and not an asshole - to the point he buys social media platforms to megaphone his own thoughts and supress critics when he gets away with it.
I'm not sure buying twitter did him any favors in that department.
I don't get how you can profit from Twitters source code though. I think the configuration of its infrastructure is the larger problem. Perhaps there are some neat ideas to solve certain problems, but there are dozens of open source twitter clones already. I doubt these are worse than that with what Twitter started with, on the contrary.
The issue here is that code became public the moment it was uploaded to a public repository. Just because your organization has reckless hiring practices and fails to secure its proprietary code shouldn’t entitle you to be able to use the legal system to doxx every IP who viewed it on a public website in an attempt to track them down seize their machines and claw back the code. How would you feel if I posted a snippet of the leaked code here in this comment and then tomorrow you receive a legal summons or your house gets raided in an attempt to make sure you don’t have a copy?
There is zero overlap here - you are conflating 2 completely distinct issues.
"say whatever you want" does indeed include talking about your private messages, if you have access to them like Musk may with private DMs, and if that is what you want. You may want to reflect on the meaning and implications of your words.