Former Twitter Security Chief Complaints User Privacy Is Not Protected: “People Are Tricking People” | Gift

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Former Twitter security chief Peiter “Mudge” Zatko on Tuesday denounced in the US Senate that the company is unable to protect social network users’ data and has no interest in doing so. “I’m here today because the Twitter address is deceiving people,” Zatko said at the start of his appearance before the House Justice Committee.

The former executive, who worked for Twitter between November 2020 and January of this year, said the company “doesn’t know how much information it has, where it has it and where it comes from, so it can’t protect it.” Furthermore, you said that employees “have too much access to too much information and too many systems”. “An employee within the company could take over the bills of all the senators in this room,” the former head of security told the committee.

Zatko assured that he had “repeatedly” warned the company’s top management of security flaws and that he had decided to report him because they did not listen to him. “Twitter’s security holes threaten national security, compromise user privacy and security, and sometimes threaten the future of the company,” he said.

It guarantees that they can work for foreign intelligence services

Likewise, last July he denounced serious cybersecurity problems in social networks before the United States Congress and several federal agencies. According to his complaint, to which the newspaper had access The Washington Post and the chain CNN, the company allows too many employees to access its central controls. He also claimed that one or more workers might be working for foreign intelligence services and that company executives lied to regulators about security deficiencies.

Zatko further argues that Twitter does not adequately erase the data of users who delete their accounts, sometimes because it has lost the information, and has neither the resources nor the interest to really know the number of bot in the social network. The question of bot is at the center of the trial that will face Twitter and the billionaire Elon Musk, after deciding to cancel the purchase of the company, claiming that he has not told the truth about the number of fake accounts on the social network.

According to Twitter, whose CEO Parag Agrawal refused to appear before the Senate committee, Zatko lost his job due to “ineffective leadership and” poor performance “in his duties.

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