Twitter said its hiring process is “independent of any foreign influence” and access to data is managed through a host of measures.
These were some of the troubling revelations from Peiter “Mudge” Zatko, a respected cybersecurity expert and Twitter whistleblower who appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee to lay out his allegations against the company.
“Twitter leadership ignored its engineers,” he said, in part because “their executive incentives led them to prioritize profit over security”. The Delaware judge overseeing the case ruled last week that Musk can include new evidence related to Zatko’s allegations in the high-stakes trial, which is set to start Oct 17. During the hearing, Musk tweeted a popcorn emoji, often used to suggest that one is sitting back in anticipation of unfolding drama.
Sen. Dick Durbin, an Illinois Democrat who heads the Judiciary Committee, said Zatko has detailed flaws “that may pose a direct threat to Twitter’s hundreds of millions of users as well as to American democracy”.Unknown to Twitter users, there’s far more of their personal information disclosed than they – or sometimes even Twitter itself – realise, Zatko testified. He said Twitter did not address “basic systemic failures” brought forward by company engineers.
Still, Zatko came off as a convincing whistleblower who has “a lot of credibility in this space,” said Ari Lightman, professor of digital media and marketing at Carnegie Mellon University. But he said many of the problems he raised can likely be found at many other digital technology platforms
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