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• @kateconger Kate Conger on x

  Parts of Twitter's source code were leaked online. The company suspects a former employee is behind the breach. Scoop w/@RMac18 https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @rmac18 Ryan Mac on x

  Twitter says its source code was posted online and worked to get it taken down from GitHub on Friday. Now it's trying to unmask the anonymous user behind the leak. Our sources say that the person is a former Twitter employee who left last year. https://nytimes.com/...

• @keithboykin Keith Boykin on x

  While Washington is focused on TikTok, Twitter's source code has been leaked online, which could enable hackers to extract user data. The news comes as 75 percent of the company's 7,500 employees have been laid off or resigned since Elon Musk took over. https://www.nytimes.com/..…

• @penamerica @penamerica on x

  Parts of Twitter's source code were leaked online and appear to have been public for at least several months, raising fears that hackers or other motivated parties could exploit security vulnerabilities to extract user data or take down the site. https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @zoeschiffer @zoeschiffer on x

  I really hate getting scooped but this is true and this story is great. https://twitter.com/...

• @joshchafetz Josh Chafetz on x

  ngl, at this point who thinks this code is worth stealing? https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @cubicleapril April King on x

  I for one am SHOCKED that a company which yanked around ex-employees for severance and then failed to collect their laptops for months has leaked a copy of their source code. https://twitter.com/...

• @carnage4life Dare Obasanjo on x

  What happened to Open Sourcing the algorithm? https://twitter.com/...

• @karaswisher Kara Swisher on x

  No shit Sherlock quote: “One of the best ways to mitigate insider risk is to keep your employees happy and that certainly hasn't been the case at Twitter.”

• @rmac18 Ryan Mac on x

  The user who Twitter says posted the source code had the username “FreeSpeechEnthusiast” an apparent allusion to Elon Musk. GitHub has since taken down the code under threat of a DMCA violation. (w/ @kateconger) https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @peterjukes Peter Jukes on x

  Since Mr. Musk bought Twitter in October for $44 billion, about 75 percent of the company's 7,500 employees have been laid off or resigned. https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @gergelyorosz Gergely Orosz on x

  Things that make this source code leak dangerous for Twitter: 1. Regulators can inspect, and potentially find cases when Twitter told them A, when the source code says B 2. IP and patent challenges could come from third parties examining it 3. Business logic exploits https://twit…

• @goldman Jason Goldman on x

  Maybe someone was just taking initiative to deliver on the promise to open source it https://twitter.com/...

• @danielraffel Daniel Raffel on x

  I wonder what GitHub actively monitors for in all checked in repos. Based on this article I presume they “keep it really simple” and rely on external reports to avoid liability they don't want or need. https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @cmclymer Charlotte Clymer on x

  Oh, awesome. “It was unclear how long the leaked code had been online, but it appeared to have been public for at least several months.” Twitter Says Parts of Its Source Code Were Leaked Online https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @rvawonk Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D on x

  Oh wow. Twitter says parts of its source code have been leaked online, likely by an ex-employee. The code was posted to GitHub by someone who goes by the name “FreeSpeechEnthusiast.” Hey, Elon *did* promise to make more of the code open source, so... 🤷‍♀️ https://www.nytimes.com/…

• @peterjukes Peter Jukes on x

  “Twitter is being reshaped rapidly,” Mr. Musk wrote in the email seen by The New York Times. He added that the company could be thought of as “an inverse start-up” and that he believed Twitter could someday be worth $250 billion. https://www.nytimes.com/...

• @jeffmacishere Jeff Mac on x

  but why would they do this after he treated them so poorly oh wait hang on a second I get it https://twitter.com/...