made public last month, Zatko accused the company of lax security practices, neglecting user privacy, misleading regulators in violation of a 2011 settlement with the Federal Trade Commission, and knowingly employing foreign government agentsThe complaint has raised alarm bells in Washington, given the platform's role as a place where government leaders, dissidents and businesses turn to get their message out.
Zatko said Twitter struggled to identify potential infiltration by foreign agents and typically was only able to do so when notified by outside agencies. The company was"unwilling to put the effort in" to hunt down bad actors, he said.In his testimony, Zatko painted a portrait of a company beset by widespread security issues and unable to understand the extent and implications of the data it collects.
Twitter's leaders were unwilling or unable to grapple with the scale of the problem and ignored warnings from him and other employees, Zatko said, accusing them of prioritizing business over security. "Twitter is an immensely powerful platform that cannot afford gaping security vulnerabilities," Sen. Dick Durbin , the committee chairman, said on Tuesday. He compared Twitter to a bank, saying users reasonably expect the company to protect the information they use when they sign up for accounts.
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Interesting that this guy becomes a whistleblower RIGHT AFTER the richest man in the WORLD tries to buy the company without the cash......INTERESTING...
I'm sure this 'whistleblower' is on Elons payroll
Poor Twitter they enthusiatically everything the DNC asked them to do and maybe even took the initiative to take it a step further only to be backstabbed by the left for not doing enough.
Twitter knows that Russian and Chinese bots are the only thing keeping it alive.