"Elon Musk gave his biographer confidential messages from a top Ukraine official without seeking permission, revealing exchanges over the entrepreneur restricting the Starlink internet service to thwart Kyiv’s military.

Ukrainian deputy prime minister Mykhailo Fedorov told the Financial Times on Friday that he was unaware that Walter Isaacson had obtained and published the messages in a forthcoming biography of Musk written with the billionaire’s full collaboration.

'It’s not very pretty,”' Fedorov said in an interview in his office in Kyiv. 'I’ve never shown or talked about our correspondence publicly.'"

Elon Musk gave biographer top Ukrainian official’s confidential messages without permission

https://www.ft.com/content/b38367f0-c70f-4a26-b9fa-8bf160e1803a

Elon Musk gave biographer top Ukrainian official’s private messages without permission

Mykhailo Fedorov says disclosure of exchange about military access to Starlink internet service ‘not pretty’

Financial Times
@metacurity has anyone noticed that billionaires are too rich to follow the rules, almost like they aren’t part of humanity
@metacurity EM is such a POS.
@kapn @metacurity The correct term is “enemy combatant”.

@metacurity That Muskmelon is really a piece of work.

(And if he was that concerned about Stopping Nuclear War(tm), he would have announced turning off Starlink near Crimea. Letting an ally rely on a resource he was in fact silently dropping is nothing but the work of an unregistered foreign agent.)

@metacurity
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"Elon Musk gave biographer top Ukrainian official’s private messages without permission"
@metacurity Nowhere does the article say that the messages were confidential. It says that they were private. This is a breach of privacy (and good manners) - not a breach of security.