NEW: Twitter currently does not have admin access to some of its GitHub repos. These repos contain Twitter source code (much of it is open source; some is not). This includes code for companies Twitter acquired, like Smyte. 1/
Why? Well, the company fired a bunch of employees who had access. On Slack, one engineer said the TwitterDev org on GitHub has 519 members, most of whom do not work at Twitter anymore. Some still have owner permissions — like the ability to rename or delete an org entirely. 2/
Twitter doesn’t deploy from GitHub, and most of this is open source, so it’s not life or death. But having hundreds of former employees maintain access when current employees aren’t admins on some projects is…not great, from a security perspective. 3/
Over the weekend, Elon Musk was complaining to Twitter employees about an account impersonating him that Twitter’s systems missed due to Smyte (the content moderation tool) being unstable. 4/
As promised, we broke this news last night in Discord, and will continue to publish first in the newsletter and on Sidechannel. We have more coming in today’s edition. Join us: platformer.news
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