The former head of security at Twitter has filed a whistleblower complaint with federal agencies describing what he calls “extreme, egregious deficiencies by Twitter” that pose a threat to user privacy and national security. The software engineer Peiter Zatko, who is better known by his hacker name “Mudge,” alleges Twitter has misled federal regulators about its cybersecurity defenses. He spoke on CNN Tuesday.
bq. Peiter Zatko: “There’s an analogy of an airplane. So, you get on an airplane, and every passenger and the attendant crew all have access to the cockpit, to the controls. You know, that’s entirely unnecessary. It might be easy, but there — it’s too easy to accidentally, or intentionally, turn an engine off.”