Back on Christmas Eve of last year there were some reports that Elon Musk was in the process of shutting down Twitter’s Sacramento data center. In that article, a number of ex-Twitter employees wer…

    • alvvayson@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      BS, I don’t know if Twitter holds credit card data, but if they did, they would have needed to abide by PCI DSS rules, which requires encrypting the data in special hardware security modules.

      So no, moving those servers wouldn’t put the data at risk.

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        1 year ago

        encrypting the data in special hardware security modules

        Tell me you don’t understand how PCI works without saying you don’t understand how PCI works.

        Those systems can very much store PCI data and it’s very much possible that those were the systems that contain information as most of the times it’s on general servers.