A second Twitter whistleblower told the FTC and Congress last year that engineers can access “GodMode” and tweet from any account, supporting Mudge's complaint
Too many people can still access a program that lets them tweet under any account, he says in a complaint
Lina Khan says she's “extremely disturbed” by Mudge's claim that Twitter misled the FTC about its compliance with a 2011 consent decree and plans to investigate
Mudge details Twitter's lack of logging, ignoring hackers' ongoing efforts to access its systems, how the FTC let the company “grade its own homework”, and more
A ticking bomb of security vulnerabilities. Covering up security failures. Duping regulators and misleading lawmakers.
Sources: Twitter agreed to a ~$7M settlement with Peiter Zatko in June 2022 over lost pay; Zatko signed an NDA but he can speak to Congress or file a complaint
one of the few venues in which he is allowed to discuss the confidential settlement. https://www.wsj.com/... Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : The pettiness to sue Parag/Twitter for wrongful termination...
Peiter Zatko's allegations offer details on Twitter's misinformation policies and failures, including accepting a QAnon proponent into its Birdwatch program
A document from whistleblower Peiter Zatko that details the company's failings in policing misinformation shows what happens when a business model fails Tweets: @markseibel , @baldingsworld , @lizzadw...
Peiter Zatko's whistleblower complaint alleges India forced Twitter to hire one of its agents, who could have accessed sensitive user data due to weak security
😱 El antiguo jefe de seguridad de Twitter tira de la manta. Ians / Business Standard : Twitter trashes ex-worker's claim that India forced it to hire ‘govt agent’ Lily Hay Newman / Wired : The Most Da...
A profile of Peiter Zatko, aka Mudge, who worked at DARPA, Google, and Stripe before Twitter, and was a member of hacker groups L0pht and Cult of the Dead Cow
From the L0pht and Cult of the Dead Cow to DARPA and Google, Peiter ‘Mudge’ Zatko took unorthodox approaches to ‘make a dent in the universe’
Twitter terminated its head of security Peiter “Mudge” Zatko this week, and CISO Rinki Sethi will depart in the coming weeks; both execs joined Twitter in 2020
Market summary: 📊 — Brutal week in the market finally ends. Steve Zurier / scmagazine.com : What's it mean? Making sense of Twitter's decision to oust ‘Mudge’ Zatko and Rinki Sethi Kris Holt / Engad...