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Am I the only one surprised they managed to enter the server rack room in the first place?
you’re right, most secure data centers are more paranoid about access than this, even if they had a server room to themselves. I’m assuming the part of the story we’re not getting is the intensifying sequence of billionaire manbaby meltdowns musk had every time he was told no, which you can kind of see by how the folks running the data center treated the damage he was doing to their infrastructure towards the end. very much “fuck it, I’m tired of getting yelled at, let him do it and we’ll bill or sue him later,” which is kind of a foolish approach when you know musk doesn’t pay
If they have a full room to themselves, a DC might let them fuck around without supervision. There's no way I would let them into the structural/electrical bits without seeing his signature under the mother of all responsibility waivers, though.
After that, if this was just a regular asshole I'd hope their fuckaround trip goes without a major incident both to save myself from a lot of trouble and out of common decency towards a fellow human. This particular asshole would really be testing the limits of the latter.
this is apparently NTT, presumably one of the bits that used to be Verio, and they've been fundamentally competent in my experience. To fuck around seriously, he'd have to buy NTT first.
Yeah, the manbaby tantrums were my guess too
Bluster and force and intimidation go a hell of a long way on people who don’t necessarily know what backing power they have (which a lot of people in gate/door control roles often fall into)
I’m quite unsurprised they got that access
Not really, Mudge (hacker, twitter whistleblower) already said that security before the Muskening was horrible. So for a normal datacenter it would be a big surprise, but for twitter not really.
That was a bit surprising to me too, apparently no floor scale in the airlock leading to the server floor, or not even an airlock just a door. Also no security supervision, or at least one which was letting things slide.
DCs without the first half of your comment vastly (vastly) outnumber DCs with it
From the “also no” bit: hard to tell. They may have been there and just not mentioned, etc