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Comment: the state of the leaked code piece may give an indication when it was stolen, newer updates in Twitters repository don't show in the code. As for identifying the downloader, it would depend on the audit trail that Twitter keeps for its repository, when code was pulled. Of course this would require someone being still an employee to interpret. Call is out for a forensic audit of Twitter ;) My guess would be that at least from covid lockdown time VPN access to the Twitter company network was required, network access logs may give a pointer if kept long enough. Of course if this code snippet was central to the work of many programmers, the field of suspects would become a nightmare. Let's neither forget the possibility that the published code was copied in many pieces collected over a longer timeframe.
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Perhaps I should post this in the It Sucks Getting Old thread. I read this...
#1880 by RTH10260 » Tue Mar 28, 2023 4:21 am
Comment: the state of the leaked code piece
as this...
#1880 by RTH10260 » Tue Mar 28, 2023 4:21 am
Comment: the state of the leaked cod piece
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Something fishy is going on around here :cantlook:
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RTH10260 wrote: Tue Mar 28, 2023 6:21 am Comment: the state of the leaked code piece may give an indication when it was stolen, newer updates in Twitters repository don't show in the code. As for identifying the downloader, it would depend on the audit trail that Twitter keeps for its repository, when code was pulled. Of course this would require someone being still an employee to interpret. Call is out for a forensic audit of Twitter ;) My guess would be that at least from covid lockdown time VPN access to the Twitter company network was required, network access logs may give a pointer if kept long enough. Of course if this code snippet was central to the work of many programmers, the field of suspects would become a nightmare. Let's neither forget the possibility that the published code was copied in many pieces collected over a longer timeframe.
I'm under the impression that anyone with the skills to steal it would also have the skills to be pretty hard to catch.
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RTH10260 wrote: Tue Mar 28, 2023 2:05 pm Something fishy is going on around here :cantlook:
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When you get trolled on your own site ... by a dictionary.
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:lol:
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bob wrote: Tue Mar 28, 2023 5:43 pm
When you get trolled on your own site ... by a dictionary.
Since we know Trump is too cheap to pay anyone does this mean he will no longer have all the best words?
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Trump only has about twenty words, including but not limited to . . . witch hunt, frankly, beautiful, person, man, woman, camera, television...
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That's a...pretty steep decline. A cliff, even.
Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein wrote: "From September to October of last year, the top 10 advertisers on Twitter spent $71 million on ads, according to estimates from Pathmatics. In the past two months, that figure dropped to just $7.6 million, a decline of 89%, the research firm said."
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$20 million :rotflmao: :rotflmao: :rotflmao:

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This can be filed as "how this is going"

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I predicted this when blue check went from "verified" to "paid sucker." Like most, I want to know the blue checkmark is actually Takei or his staff, not a random user with more money than brains.

Do the gov't agencies have to pony up, e.g., NPS, BLM, USFW?
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pipistrelle wrote: Thu Mar 30, 2023 6:49 pm I predicted this when blue check went from "verified" to "paid sucker." Like most, I want to know the blue checkmark is actually Takei or his staff, not a random user with more money than brains.

Do the gov't agencies have to pony up, e.g., NPS, BLM, USFW?
They get the little icon and government label, but not a check IIRC.
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raison de arizona wrote: Thu Mar 30, 2023 6:53 pmThey get the little icon and government label, but not a check IIRC.
Government (and "multilateral") officials and organizations get a grey checkmark.
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bob wrote: Thu Mar 30, 2023 6:57 pm
raison de arizona wrote: Thu Mar 30, 2023 6:53 pmThey get the little icon and government label, but not a check IIRC.
Government (and "multilateral") officials and organizations get a grey checkmark.
Yeah, not the coveted blue checkmark.
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pipistrelle wrote: Thu Mar 30, 2023 6:49 pm I predicted this when blue check went from "verified" to "paid sucker." Like most, I want to know the blue checkmark is actually Takei or his staff, not a random user with more money than brains.

Do the gov't agencies have to pony up, e.g., NPS, BLM, USFW?
A blue Checkmark is now a Badge that you contributed to Elmo's GoFundMe.
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:lol:

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MN-Skeptic wrote: Fri Mar 31, 2023 11:02 am :lol:

And the rest don't have a thousand dollars a month to blow on twitter so that plan is dead in the water. I wonder where Elmo is going to get the revenue stream to keep Twitter running.
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He's not. :smoking:
Out from under. :thumbsup:
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You don't say. I find it hard to believe that Elon Musk's Twitter would act in such an unethical manner.
Zoë Schiffer @ZoeSchiffer wrote: NEW: Twitter hasn’t paid thousands of dollars in charitable donations that employees made in 2022, around the time of the acquisition. The money was taken out of employee paychecks but never reached the organizations. Benevity, the third-party platform that is used to facilitate the payments, told employees Twitter hasn’t yet approved the payments. After I started asking around about this yesterday Twitter said it is “actively working” to get the money to the NGOs.

Twitter was supposed to match these donations but that also has not yet happened.
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Dive in.
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I don't want your stinkin' source code, asshat. :roll:
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Foggy wrote: Fri Mar 31, 2023 4:03 pm I don't want your stinkin' source code, asshat. :roll:
But...but...Elmo needs free debuggin'!
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