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…

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…

  • Maybe@lemm.eeEnglish
    525·
    10 months ago

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

    • Womble@lemmy.worldEnglish
      23·
      10 months ago

      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.

      • Nepenthe@kbin.social
        8·
        10 months ago

        Musk’s cowboy “pry open the floor and electrical panels with a knife” electrocutes him

        That one is a risk I’m willing to take. I had to stop reading the article for a moment to marvel at just how close we really were.

      • Maybe@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        Isn’t all of it encrypted though? Like I understand physical access to servers is generally bad, but you’d think once the the things are unplugged it would be difficult to access the data again without bypassing encryption. I’m clearly not a software engineer though lol

    • chaogomu@kbin.social
      17·
      10 months ago

      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.

      • seang96@spgrn.comEnglish
        7·
        10 months ago

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