Peiter Zatko, the former head of Twitter’s security, is testifying before the US Senate Judiciary Committee this week over Zatko’s own allegations regarding Twitter’s security (or rather, security flaws). And one of the most striking testimonies was the recognition that China planted a spy among Twitter employees.
The FBI warned of the infiltrator’s presence, but Twitter’s response was indifferent
This is how the FBI would have communicated it to Twitter, Zatko said, although the most serious was not that fact, but that I was aware of it.The main executives of the social network reacted with absolute indifference. Zatko learned of this fact the same week of his resignation, and according to what he has stated from the federal agency, they told him that the spy had turned over the information he had collected during his work to the Ministry of State Security, the main intelligence agency of the government. agency in the country of China.
On Twitter, they lacked the proper tools and protocols to detect the presence of an infiltrated spy on their own, but in Zatko’s words, after bringing the fact to their attention, they took no action to deal with the situation. or even prevent new infiltrated spies from entering.
There was even some interest on Twitter for the monetization of Chinese advertisersalbeit with opposition from another industry reflecting the potential negative impact of closer commercial ties with China.
This isn’t the first case involving Twitter as the epicenter of espionage, as there has already been a conviction of a former employee accused of spying for Saudi Arabia, alongside knowledge that India was exerting pressure on Twitter to include one of its agents to integrate into the template.
What may be even more concerning, however, is that: Twitter is not known to have fired the undercover Chinese spythat could continue to work on the social network and continue to report information to China, for many an international threat at various levels, as would turn out the mysterious cyber attack that took place against Ukraine just before the Russian invasion began.
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