Twitter's former security chief claims that a Chinese spy was on Twitter's payroll. Here are 5 takeaways from the Senate hearing.
"I'm reminded of one conversation with an executive when I said, 'I am confident that we have a foreign agent,'" Zatko recalled."Their response was, 'Well, since we already have one, what does it matter if we have more?'"Zatko pins Twitter's failures on leaders, starting with CEO Parag Agrawal
Zatko described a company culture that avoided negativity and alleged executives presented selectively favorable information to the board.He accused leadership of prioritizing business over security, quoting writer Upton Sinclair:"It is difficult to get someone to understand something when his salary depends on him not understanding something."Parag Agrawal
The root cause, he told senators, is that Twitter doesn't understand how much data it collects, why it collects it, and how it's supposed to be used.That includes users' phone numbers, IP addresses, emails, the devices they use, their locations and other identifying information. What's more, he said, around half the employees at Twitter have access to that data.
"How come we keep making these same mistakes?" Zatko said."What is it that we are telling the FTC as Twitter that is incorrect?" "I'm concerned that for almost 10 years, the Federal Trade Commission didn't know or didn't take strong enough action to ensure Twitter complied" with the 2011 settlement, Grassley said.
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