Here's why the Twitter whistleblower testimony likely delighted Elon Musk.
report last month, claim thousands of Twitter employees have access to user data and insist some workers have intentionally installed spyware on their computers at the request of external parties. He quoted the late author and activist Upton Sinclair to explain Twitter leadership’s alleged ignorance about the issues: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.
Peiter "Mudge" Zatko, former head of security at Twitter, testifies during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in Hart Building on Tuesday.In his testimony on Tuesday, Zatko alleged Twitter officials “don’t know what data they have, where it lives, or where it came from, and so, unsurprisingly, they can’t protect it.” He also claimed Twitter may knowingly have foreign agents on its payroll, leaving users’ data susceptible to malicious use by foreign governments.
Sen. Chuck Grassley, the highest-ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, shared some details of that allegation during the hearing Tuesday, including Zatko’s claim the FBI notified Twitter of “at least one Chinese agent in the company.” Zatko said Twitter higher-ups seemed “unwilling to put the effort in” to find and block the agent from accessing user data.
Zatko also testified that Twitter may be understating the number of fake accounts, or"bots," on its platform. That’s a significant, albeit unsurprising, allegation for a few reasons. As Morgan Jerkins recently
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The Search for Dirt on the Twitter Whistle-Blower“Multiple different sources, multiple different people, multiple different companies, were all basically trying to dig up dirt on Mudge,” said a former colleague of Peiter (Mudge) Zatko, who filed a whistle-blower disclosure against Twitter.
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Twitter Whistleblower Peiter Zatko to Testify Before CongressA former security chief at Twitter will appear before Congress Tuesday with alarming allegations that the social platform misled regulators about its cyber defenses and efforts to control millions of fake accounts.
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Twitter whistleblower bringing security warnings to CongressPeiter “Mudge' Zatko, the Twitter whistleblower who is warning of security flaws, privacy threats and lax controls at the social platform, will take his case to Congress on Tuesday.
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Twitter whistleblower bringing security warnings to CongressPeiter “Mudge' Zatko, the Twitter whistleblower who is warning of security flaws, privacy threats and lax controls at the social platform, will take his case to Congress on Tuesday.
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Here's why the Twitter whistleblower's testimony to Congress will be crucialIt will be the second time in less than a year that a highly-placed tech worker warns federal lawmakers about the struggles inside a social media platform when Twitter's former security chief testifies on Tuesday.
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