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To: i-node who wrote (1528412)	3/11/2025 1:14:11 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	2 Recommendations Recommended By Brumar89 Eric Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577217

Inode, Like so many things, one has to weigh cost vs benefit. a) Twitter isn't meant to be profitable. Instead, it's meant to be Musk's own megaphone. He should spare no expense in making Twitter reliable, because he's staking his own reputation on it. b) It's not that hard to defend against DDOS attacks on a large scale. Video game companies do it. Ticketmaster does it. Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and other cloud providers have clear vested interests in doing it. c) If Musk wants to monetize Grok (or whatever he wants to call his xAI project), he WILL have to pay attention to information security AND privacy. Already my work is telling me not to use certain AI-enabled products because of security concerns. My wife, who is involved in AI, also has to evaluate the security of AI cloud providers given that she's in health. These are not trivial concerns. These are concerns that reflect on a wider scale than you could imagine. For a billionaire "genius," Musk sure seems to be making extremely boneheaded decisions. Tenchusatsu