I said I was going to keep politics out of here, but this is the tech / politics / rights crossover that many of us see in trade offs for our day jobs. UK govt now seems to nominally be following a corporate finance playbook, but with a lot less transparency about potential impact, strategic plans, and workforce retention than many firms

May have made allusions to Enron in a past thread, but this is not going great by any measure, and parallels just struck me

Bit of a thread of threads. Rolled up version here ICYI https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1593549917489766401.html

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@TrialByTruth: All the people talking about layoffs elsewhere and questioning why we are obsessed with Twitter. The main reason is this is public and real time insight into what radical deregulation looks like, when...…

As for this galaxy brain comment from a usual suspect. Yes fella, all that resilience created that needs monitoring, care, and feeding from all the folk you just fired means you never needed them in the first place

Part of the justification for every security and IT staff cull ever. Of course teams gain slack and structure needs to flex, but spare me

Wrote historically about how this thinking intersects when 'overheads' turn out to be essential foundations for any organisation https://infospectives.wordpress.com/2015/07/30/when-business-culture-eats-cybersecurity-for-breakfast-part-one/
When Business Culture Eats Cybersecurity For Breakfast

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