Peiter Zatko, Twitter’s former head of security, says the social media company is entirely incapable of protecting its users. Zatko — who is widely known as “Mudge” — filed an extensive whistleblower complaint with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Department of Justice, and the Federal Trade Commission alleging widespread security negligence across the board at Twitter.
Zatko’s complaint, a copy of which was reviewed by The Washington Post and CNN, hits at both individual instances of negligence and much broader priority issues at Twitter. Amongst the most explosive of Zatko’s allegations is that Twitter has been purposefully misleading regulators at the FTC about the site’s security. (Twitter settled with the FTC back in 2011 over “serious lapses” in its security protocols.)
