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 Damning Allegation in the Twitter Whistleblower's Report Yuthika Bhargava / The Hindu : Indian government forced Twitter to put ‘agent’ on payroll, grant access to user data, says former security chief The Indian Express : India forced Twitter to put ‘agent’ on payroll: Ex-Twitter executive Tweets: Donie O'Sullivan / @donie : NEW: First time Twitter CEO @paraga weighs in on whistleblower story. Sending this message to staff this morning. https://twitter.com/... Richard Blumenthal / @senblumenthal : New whistleblower allegations about Twitter's abysmal data security practices are deeply concerning—with serious consumer protection & national security implications. I am urging @FTC to swiftly investigate these claims & bring all appropriate enforcement actions. https://twitter.com/... Kim Zetter / @kimzetter : PSA: When someone contacts you to ask your opinion of the Twitter whistleblower story, you don't have to give an opinion. Especially if you're not a security expert. You also don't have to have an opinion if you don't know enough facts yet. It's okay to just say “I don't know.” Justin Hendrix / @justinhendrix : The Post published docs brought forward by the whistleblower, including a 24 page internal assessment of how the company handles threats including disinformation. It finds the company operates “in a constant state of crisis”. https://twitter.com/... Sarah McLaughlin / @sarahemclaugh : This is extremely worrying. We already know Saudi Arabia bribed a Twitter employee to hand over user info. And now we're learning Twitter may have allowed an Indian government agent direct access to user data during protests. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/... @munsifv : Indian govt had forced Twitter to put one of its agents on the payroll with access to user data, alleges ex -security chief. This is from a @washingtonpost report on whistleblower complaint on security lapses at Twitter: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... More from the complaint copy: https://twitter.com/... @chrdnet : “Twitter executives knew that accepting Chinese money risked endangering users in China,” the disclosure says. “Mr. Zatko was told that Twitter was too dependent upon the revenue stream at this point to do anything other than attempt to increase it.” https://www.cnn.com/... @stanphylcap : Interesting stuff from Matt today re $TWTR, where he points out that the whistleblowing complaint *doesn't* dispute the company's bot figures! There's also good stuff on $AMC - $APE... https://twitter.com/... @te_taipo : Lesson from @Snowden If it can be exploited, intrusion capable nation states will exploit it for their own ends. “Twitter is vulnerable to Russian and Chinese influence, whistleblower says” https://cnn.com/... Michael Ron Bowling / @mrbcyber : Twitter in a compromised position with China, and entities connected with the state have significant access to information. https://www.cnn.com/... Benjamin Strick / @bendobrown : “Take a tech platform that collects massive amounts of user data, combine it with what appears to be an incredibly weak security infrastructure and infuse it with foreign state actors with an agenda, and you've got a recipe for disaster.” @ChuckGrassley https://twitter.com/... Dr. Audrey Truschke / @audreytruschke : Relevant news for everyone on Twitter, esp those critical of India's authoritarian government and human rights violations. India Forced Twitter To Hire a ‘Govt Agent’, Claims Former Security Chief in Whistleblower Complaint https://thewire.in/... #India #Twitter #Modi #BJP @chrdnet : 📢 Whistleblower: “[#Twitter] has allegedly accepted funding from unnamed “Chinese entities” who now have access to information that could ultimately unmask people in China who are illegally circumventing government censorship to view and use Twitter”. https://www.cnn.com/... Edward Murrow / @edwardmurrow666 : You don't say. What? Twitter has a member of the FSB in upper management? Not a surprise. Whistleblower says Twitter is vulnerable to Russian and Chinese influence - CNN https://www.cnn.com/... Chris Zappone / @chrizap : “The fact that Twitter's current CEO even suggested Twitter become complicit with the Putin regime is cause for concern about Twitter's effects on U.S. national security” https://cnn.com/... #UkraineRussia Will Oremus / @willoremus : In our Twitter Space just now, Twitter whistleblower's lawyer John Tye (@wbaidlaw) tells us definitively that Mudge has *not* been in contact with Musk and there was no coordination between the two. This contradicts what one source had told us. @apar1984 : Twitter and the Government of India must release public statements and address these concerning allegations that Twitter hired an agent at the behest of the Indian government and gave the person unfiltered access to user data. Zafar Hilaly / @zafarhilaly : Collusion between Twitter/ CIA (?) and RAW was revealed by the ex Twitter security chief who confessed Twitter allowed RAW to infiltrate Twitter to obtain accounts posting anti India content. RAW, CIA and Moussad are, in fact, one outfit operationally. James Ball / @jamesrbuk : “Zatko's complaint says he believed the Indian government had forced Twitter to put one of its agents on the payroll, with access to user data at a time of intense protests in the country.” Bloody *hell*. Toomas Hendrik Ilves / @ilvestoomas : Now this might go far to explain all those suspensions for innocuous treats about bad Russian behavior. https://www.cnn.com/... Igor Bobic / @igorbobic : Durbin on Twitter whistleblower: “If these claims are accurate, they may show dangerous data privacy and security risks for Twitter users around the world. As Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, I will continue investigating this issue and take further steps as needed” Ashlee Vance / @ashleevance : Chef's kiss to this Twitter whistleblower photo in the Post. He's such a good hacker that he's in the matrix https://twitter.com/... @ahtraelnashar : Ranking member of Senate Intelligence Committee @marcorubio statement to me on Twitter whistleblower: https://twitter.com/... @jordanschachtel : Whistleblowers blow the whistle on the government to bring information to the people. They do not report people to the government. Keep this in mind when you see reports about a Facebook or Twitter whistleblower. It's a state-run op to empower the state & steal your rights. Katie Bo Lillis / @katiebolillis : “The whistleblower report says the US government provided specific evidence to Twitter that at least one of its employees, perhaps more, were working for another government's intelligence service. The report does not say whether Twitter acted on the tip.” https://cnn.com/... Ashok Swain / @ashoswai : According to the whistleblower, three countries had forced Twitter to hire local full-time employees to use them as leverage - These 3 countries are India, Nigeria, & Russia. What a great company the world's so-called largest democracy has! Brian Fung / @b_fung : NEW: A deeper look at the Twitter whistleblower's foreign intelligence allegations, including claims “Chinese entities” have leverage over Twitter due to $$ it's taken from them and info it's provided that could ultimately expose Twitter's users in China: https://t.co/HqNmzr3KD1 Rupak Chattopadhyay / @rupakchatto : Incredible story. Sour grapes from #bezos for failing to crack the Indian market?? Of course for most who have grown up in the global south, @washingtonpost has about the same credibility as @engpravda https://twitter.com/... @meenakandasamy : These revelations (first Facebook now Twitter) are explosive but the state and ruling party apparatus in Delhi have mastered the art of spectacle to such a degree that any discussion about this will be diverted by some thing else. https://twitter.com/... Gary Panjwani / @garysocially : Twitter didn't even agree to appoint a grievance officer in India to comply with local laws (something which other tech giants had agreed to). But I am supposed to believe it allowed an Indian “agent” to work inside Twitter with “full access to user data”? Give me a break... https://twitter.com/... Eva / @evacide : Some of the highlights of Mudge's complaint include that time Twitter hired and gave sensitive access to a probable Indian government agent and Twitter's disinterest in tracking accurate harassment or spam stats because it would make them look bad. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... @munsifv : We confirmed contents of the complaint with the whistleblower's attorney. A Twitter source tells @f_potkin that the allegations about India govt had surfaced previously within Twitter. Our story: https://www.reuters.com/... Scott Nover / @scottnover : I read the entire Twitter whistleblower compliant and the only thing that made me do a double-take was an allegation that the Indian government forced Twitter to put an intelligence agent on its payroll. https://twitter.com/...