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ed the simultaneous sip. The Fed. I'm seeing somebody say "End the Fed." Well, I'd be in favor of that if I knew what it was. Anybody know what the Federal Reserve does? I managed to get a degree in economics and walk away thinking I'm not entirely sure what they do. Well, anyway, let's talk about some of the things in the news. I was seeing a tweet from Adam Townsend. He was sending people to h…

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employees, gave their passwords, and that was enough to acquire god mode over the entire network. Apparently if you had anybody's password if they were in engineering, they gave you god mode over the entire network.

Now if you don't believe that's true, apparently there is testimony from somebody who was hired to look into the security. He testified to Congress. This guy named Mudge was his nickname. And apparently anybody who worked in engineering had full access to Twitter's guts. All of the engineers could change Twitter. Do you remember long ago when I was speculating that Jack Dorsey probably didn't know who was doing what with Twitter? Do you remember everybody laughed at me? Do you remember how you laughed? Oh, how you laughed. Come on, Dorsey knows exactly what's going on there. No. Nope. It turns out that every engineer could have changed the guts of Twitter, had full access, and there was no log of changes. Did you hear that? All of the engineers could change the guts of Twitter, and there was no log of the changes. Those are confirmed facts from somebody whose job it was to look into that stuff.

Now did you know any of that? Did you know any of that? Somehow I missed all of that, but it's in the public record. It's no

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t subject to speculation. And apparently Twitter is built in such a way that it's really hard to catch up and fix all the security problems. So Elon Musk has a big challenge, a technical challenge that's almost unimaginable in its complexity. But if anybody could sort it out, at least the right people are working on it. So that's good. Texas Governor Abbott is making a clear call for universal sc…

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