Musk Exploits AWS Outage To Unfairly Slam Signal, Promote His Shittier Chat Software
from the everything-is-somehow-about-me dept
If Elon Musk probably has a superpower, it isn’t his engineering or business savvy. It’s probably his rank opportunism. The latest case in point: this week saw a massive outage for Amazon Web Services (AWS) that managed to take many of your favorite websites and services offline. The outage also hampered the workflows of countless online businesses. The impact was fairly universal.
And, ever the opportunist, Musk was quick to leverage the outage to unfairly smear a potential competitor and promote his own, shittier alternative.
Amazon said the outage was caused by problems with an underlying subsystem that monitors the health of its network load balancers used to distribute traffic across several servers. The outrage resulted in all the usual conversations about whether it’s a bad idea to have so much essential server operations under the control of one company, and how the internet isn’t as resilient as we like to think.
Musk, however, took the opportunity to exploit the outage to criticize Signal over at his right wing propaganda and crypto grifter website:
Why would Musk do this? He’s trying to promote his own, shittier encrypted chat software beta, the creatively named X Chat. X Chat is part of Musk’s quest to turn what was once Twitter into an “everything app,” despite the fact he’s shown little real indication he’s innovative enough to actually make X useful for anything outside of sports chat and fighting with racist crypto grifter bots.
While Signal isn’t perfect and certainly has some dependencies on centralized infrastructure, the AWS outage didn’t create any specific risk issues related to encrypted Signal communications. Musk simply saw an opportunity to exploit the outage to market his barely-used beta software. Signal President Meredith Whittaker responded to Musk by noting that Signal was at least transparently open source:
But because every brain fart Elon Musk has somehow warrants its own clickbait news cycle, what’s left of the U.S. press couldn’t help but amplify Musk’s criticism of Signal and parrot his attacks mindlessly:
Much like Trump, Musk’s real skill set has absolutely nothing to do with engineering.
His real skill set revolves rank opportunism (like cozying up to talented engineers and taking singular credit for their work) and exploiting America’s very broken press for attention and marketing. In this case, trying to convince people to migrate from a trusted, open source, secure messaging app to a closed source app run by an erratic white supremacist ideologically aligned with the planet’s shittiest people.
Filed Under: chats, elon musk, encryption, meredith whittaker, privacy, security, signal
Companies: signal, x
Comments on “Musk Exploits AWS Outage To Unfairly Slam Signal, Promote His Shittier Chat Software”
Signal is also nonprofit organization, not a developed by a company that burns $1B each month to pollute the Earth with methane.
It’s so secure that even the Secretary of War uses it daily to share its dirty war plans with his family.
Try fucking off into the deepest hole, silver-spoon Apartheid bitch.
X should be dead to any non-NAZIs
There is simply no reason for non-NAZIs to use X or anything X related.
Let's review
Meredith Whittaker: Exemplary track record of transparency and pursuit of excellence in the service of privacy and security. Not perfect (who is?) but she can be trusted to try to do the right thing and to be honest when it doesn’t work out.
Elon Musk: Nazi
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No need to call him a Nazi
“Hyperloop” works much better
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Hyperfruitloop
Um.
Ex twitter has been having tons of issues.
One issue took down starlink globally.
So not sure what the drug addict is thinking here.
SpaceX & Tesla
There’s the reason very few people know the actual engineers and day-to-day managers of SpaceX and Tesla are.
Musk is NOT a rocket scientist or electrical or mechanical engineer. He’s a meme artist; and a piss-poor one at that.
The ultimate 'Out of the cold frying pan and into the raging grease fire'
Even if I bought the idea that Signal wasn’t trustworthy because of a tech outage the idea of shifting to any Elon service to replace it is like declaring that a house with a leaky roof isn’t fit for living in and moving to one that is actively on fire and being used for storage of literal sewage.