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Charles Bastille's avatar

The way large enterprise code base systems work is that they have code repositories where people have to check in their code by name. For example, GitHub is a common open source repository. All major organizations use something similar (usually, but not always, Git). Here’s a code check in by Marko Elez, the Musk 4Channer tech bro who got outed for racist tweets and who resigned. Of note: The name of the developer is recorded, and you’ll see in this file representation a “difference” visualizer that compares this check in with previous code:

https://github.com/markoelez/pyslam/commit/75d6fc2226e50f7b5b14fac7da929631c09dddd5

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SandraLea's avatar

Okay I think—so they’re leaving a trail of crumbs and we should be able to see everything they touched or manipulated?

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Charles Bastille's avatar

Given time, they could un-crumb it all. That’s why I said in the original post that the complexity of the systems gives us a little time, and that’s it. Action needs to be taken. A federal judge has put a temporary stop to this thanks to a bunch of blue state states attorneys. We’ll see how it goes. Thanks for all the very legit concerns and talk.

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