There's two issues about the tech part of this venture. The lesser of them is the apparent violation of the Affero General Public License. That one is easy to remedy: whoever implemented Mastodon for this project simply needs to post any changes they made to someplace like a Github repository, and tell people who ask where to find those …
There's two issues about the tech part of this venture. The lesser of them is the apparent violation of the Affero General Public License. That one is easy to remedy: whoever implemented Mastodon for this project simply needs to post any changes they made to someplace like a Github repository, and tell people who ask where to find those changes. They can fix this in a matter of minutes. I honestly think this complaint is overblown by popular media.
The bigger issue is information security and hacker resistance. Building hack-resistant and crash-resistant web properties is quite difficult. It takes time, patience, and clear-headedness. When I've done it I've hired penetration testers (sometimes known as "white hat hackers") to break in and tell our team how they did it, so we can fix the most obvious problems before making the web property live. That can't be done overnight, and needs to be redone with every upgrade. (It's very likely that Substack, this web property, does the same.)
There's no such thing as a hacker-proof web property. Anybody who claims otherwise has been taking too many happy pills. Real-world web properties, especially well-known ones, need ongoing security monitoring.
Can these guys handle the information security? We shall see.
Given the kind of people who would be willing to work for a guy with the employer history of Trump, let alone what a fucking moron you have to be to be a Trumper to begin with, I doubt any of them were even aware of a tenth of what you have laid out here. And thanks so much for the "technical" eduation, since I didn't know any of that.
There's two issues about the tech part of this venture. The lesser of them is the apparent violation of the Affero General Public License. That one is easy to remedy: whoever implemented Mastodon for this project simply needs to post any changes they made to someplace like a Github repository, and tell people who ask where to find those changes. They can fix this in a matter of minutes. I honestly think this complaint is overblown by popular media.
The bigger issue is information security and hacker resistance. Building hack-resistant and crash-resistant web properties is quite difficult. It takes time, patience, and clear-headedness. When I've done it I've hired penetration testers (sometimes known as "white hat hackers") to break in and tell our team how they did it, so we can fix the most obvious problems before making the web property live. That can't be done overnight, and needs to be redone with every upgrade. (It's very likely that Substack, this web property, does the same.)
There's no such thing as a hacker-proof web property. Anybody who claims otherwise has been taking too many happy pills. Real-world web properties, especially well-known ones, need ongoing security monitoring.
Can these guys handle the information security? We shall see.
Given the kind of people who would be willing to work for a guy with the employer history of Trump, let alone what a fucking moron you have to be to be a Trumper to begin with, I doubt any of them were even aware of a tenth of what you have laid out here. And thanks so much for the "technical" eduation, since I didn't know any of that.