Twitter names famed hacker 'Mudge' as head of security
Am an admirer of Mudge & co. from back in the day, though my initial reaction was doesn't he seem a bit over powered for Twitter? Their recent security issues with that hack were devops management and governance problems, no new science involved, they just dropped the ball on some solved problems.<p>Speculating on what kind of problems Twitter would need that calibre of person for, maybe detecting inevitable AI driven botnets and deepfakes?<p>Could also see how they need leadership with that tangible cred as a decider function, e.g. the personality cult around Jack might make delegation and scaling their management team a challenge if everyone is trying to find a way to compete for his attention, so they need someone with enough weight that he can legitimately defer to on security issues.<p>Congrats to all involved. Interesting times.