Was just reading another thread about Elon saying, "The more I learn, the worse it gets." Everyone is hoping he will reveal all.
My question is, does he really know or have access, to everything? Couldn't all those who left (and there were many) have taken or deleted or destroyed a lot of the evidence of what was going on there?
Btw, I started this thread because the other already had so many replies and I thought nobody would see my question. I know many people here aren't technologically proficient, so it would be reassuring to hear that he can get his hands on the info. Thanks.
Large enterprise IT normally structure things so that all your data is on a server. Laptops get stolen and broken and lost. If clients store their data on their machine then the enterprise is going to be constantly losing information.
Once the data is on a server, then the data can be backed up. Most backup systems have many, many copies. There is last nights backup and the incremental backups taken all last week. But then there is the archival backup from every month for the last two years. There may also be longer term backups, one archive per year going back many years.
Some of these backups are stored onsite. Some of these backups are stored offsite at third party vendor facilities.
If Twitter had a good IT department that had been authorized to enact good disaster recovery, yeah, he’s got EVERYTHING.
So the question isn’t so much whether he has the data, it’s a question of where is the data and how much effort will it take to get at the data. How much time will have to be spent sifting through the data?
That's a great point, fren. And thanks for the info, btw. As you said, it could take some time to dig through all that stuff, but at least knowing it's there is comforting. Would it even work with DMs? I've seen people saying that once he bought Twitter, he even owned / had the DMs. I was thinking, remember how it came out that Obama was communicating with his black hats by using the draft mode on google. That way nothing ever got sent, and there was no email to track. So I wondered if DMs work in a similar way, where some of them could have communicated directly with each other, bypassing the official system or whatever. But it sounds like even if they did do that, he actually would still have access to that data.
The dm would still be on Twitter servers. If there was a server failure, would the nerds say “meh, no one cares about dm’s, so we don’t need to back them up”? I don’t think so. The nerds would want to back everything up so that a restore could be as seamless as possible. People might notice downtime, but they shouldn’t notice any lost data.
So, he probably has all the dm’s too.
And yeah, dm’s would be property of twitter. 😉
The nerds would want to back up everything, lol. I don't consider myself a nerd, but I could so relate to that statement (in a nontechie way.) Not just back ups, but backups of backups. Haha. Thanks. What a movie. Just when you think it must be getting close to the end, they throw you another curve ball and take it in a whole new direction. Thanks for the info.