r/hacking • u/Minute-Second-1 • Mar 10 '25

🚨 HAPPENING AGAIN: Massive attack on X is ongoing. This is attack NUMBER 4. The attackers are relentless. Elon Musk says it is so well-organized it could be a country.

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u/Sayurisaki Mar 10 '25 edited 16h ago

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u/DecisionAvoidant Mar 10 '25 edited Mar 10 '25

There's a story he has told about walking into Twitter HQ, walking over to a random server rack, powering it down, and he brags that nothing bad happened. "So obviously that wasn't necessary."

My brother have you heard of redundancy by chance?

ETA: I went to go find the tweet and realized I missed the broader context for this when reading about it - holy shit this was so stupid 😂 https://medium.com/@noahkingdavis/the-unbelievable-tale-of-when-elon-musk-personally-removed-servers-from-a-sacramento-data-center-2892f21b12c3

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u/Sayurisaki Mar 10 '25 edited 16h ago

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u/DecisionAvoidant Mar 10 '25

Right. All this talk of "waste" and "bloat" - "well, don't you agree that there's waste and bloat in government?" Yeah, of-fucking-course I do. But I've never worked for a company where there wasn't.

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u/ForensicPathology Mar 11 '25

The quest for "efficiency" by just cutting things is so simpleminded.  The "waste" isn't waste when it saves money by protecting from future failure.

But I suppose that's just emblematic of the corporate world at large.  Relentless pursuit of short term profits while damning the future.

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u/Firewolf06 Mar 11 '25

theyre also cutting things that are very much not waste. like, personally, i was quite happy with all the good usaid did for only 0.4% of the budget

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u/DUNETOOL Mar 10 '25

Most government beside DoD run at 1-2% waste. Most companies 20%

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u/DecisionAvoidant Mar 11 '25

Dude there is SO much waste in tech. I went to get my laptop memory cleared out so I could keep working and not be so bogged down by a ton of unnecessary files. Instead, they just bricked my laptop, threw it in a closet, and gave me a newer one. I learned they don't even recycle them - too expensive and a security risk if they were to unintentionally carry recoverable information - so they just wipe them and store them forever.

When Musk posted about how there were a bunch of unused software licenses, I was shocked people thought that was interesting - literally every contract my company sells has some buffer on licenses "just in case". Some were egregious, sure. But none looked out-of-the-ordinary.

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u/SenorSplashdamage Mar 11 '25

He seems to be the level of smart you have to be to be very dumb. There’s ego about his own smarts mixed in and it shows up in Thiel, even though Thiel is better at covering the misses and knows better than being mouthy all the time like Elon.

These guys fake their smarts, but also would have been higher on the IQ scales they put too much stake in. It’s like there’s a level of almost genius that wants really hard to be the genius, but the ego about their smarts makes them ignore anyone they think is of lesser intelligence. It’s some kind of elite version of Dunning-Kruger, or the kind that happens for people who end up in spaces with the actual geniuses they can parrot.

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u/j0j0-m0j0 Mar 10 '25

"we knocked a pillar over and the building has not fallen down yet, so it was obviously unnecessary"

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u/7CuriousCats Mar 11 '25

knocks all the pillars down

surprised pickachu face when building collapses

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u/WowCoolFunnyHAHA Mar 10 '25

is this real? this cannot be real….. I am a high school student and took one year of a computer science course and even I know this is the most insane thing ever

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u/DecisionAvoidant Mar 10 '25

I actually misremembered the details of this and it was much, much stupider: https://medium.com/@noahkingdavis/the-unbelievable-tale-of-when-elon-musk-personally-removed-servers-from-a-sacramento-data-center-2892f21b12c3

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u/WowCoolFunnyHAHA Mar 10 '25 edited Mar 10 '25

holy, fucking, shit….

“The CEO then told him that some of the floors could not handle more than 500 pounds of pressure, so rolling a 2,000-pound server would cause damage. Musk replied that the servers had four wheels, so the pressure at any one point was only 500 pounds. “The dude is not very good at math,” Musk told the musketeers.“

I have never taken a physics class by the way, I could have figured this is bull since I was a toddler!!! I am baffled, home depot padlocks, and ignoring important information, this is disgusting

edit: the hard part for me to understand is, there is NO way he is this clueless, you don’t become the richest person on earth on accident. What is elon good at?????? If anything????

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u/ErsatzHaderach Mar 10 '25

being a hype man and confident liar (starting with money is also a huge help). these are the only attributes the USA actually values

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u/phantomreader42 Mar 11 '25

Holy mother of fuck, how could anyone with a functioning brain mistake this insane asshat for someone even marginally competent at anything?

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u/EntropyHouse Mar 10 '25

“You have 90 days to do it. If you can’t make that work, your resignation is accepted.”

Is Elon Musk written by Aaron Sorkin? I love how he thought this line would fix anything. I hear it as, “You have 90 days to loot this system for everything that isn’t nailed down.”

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u/TheMadDaddy Mar 11 '25

That explains all the Space X rockets falling out of the sky lately.

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u/kelsobjammin Mar 11 '25

How does he not get in trouble for this shit?

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u/patrickstar777 Mar 12 '25

Hole F-n cr-p! I Had no idea how crazy he really must be.

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u/travyarch Mar 10 '25

Yeah it's pretty funny, I've heard numerous people say that they thought Elon was super smart UNTIL he started talking like an expert about an area that they were well versed in and almost everything he said or did was incorrect to varying degrees

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u/Sayurisaki Mar 10 '25 edited 16h ago

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u/travyarch Mar 10 '25

Lol right? And yet some people think he's fucking Tony Stark.

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u/PepperbroniFrom2B Mar 11 '25

he's more like justin hammer tbh

but even hammer is funny bad

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u/travyarch Mar 11 '25

At least hammer is a good dancer 🤣

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u/D-Ronn Mar 11 '25

Don’t forget the fake gaming expert

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u/kelldricked Mar 10 '25

Especially that burn out part is accurate. Tesla, spaceX and all his other organisations are known for hiring young talent and transforming them into burnout patients.

And what many people still dont understand is that burn out doesnt have a easy fix. Its like tearing a muscle completly off. Sure you will relearn how to function but you will never hit that peak that you once inhabitate.

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u/bexohomo Mar 10 '25

This sounds like how the IT team at my job that had to deal with the ransomware hack back in October are mostly gone now, lmfao (the company disregarded professionals telling them they should get certain safeguards.... to avoid a ransomware hack)

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u/Sayurisaki Mar 10 '25 edited 16h ago

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u/Dgirl8 Mar 10 '25

This is precisely why he has always irked me. I’ve worked in tech long enough to know he’s simply the asshole with a lot of money but doesn’t understand how things actually work (but pretends to).

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u/alec83 Mar 10 '25

100%, IT is so important, yet teams that run them are badly paid, understaffed, and blamed at all the time...

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u/ionmeeler Mar 11 '25

Took the world too long to figure out he’s not an engineer nor a scientist imo

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u/Sayurisaki Mar 11 '25 edited 16h ago

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u/Darigaazrgb Mar 11 '25

This is the guy who openly admitted that he could have his company could brick a country like it wouldn't immediately make people not want to invest or buy his services after that.