Whistleblower: China, India had agents working for Twitter

Well, now you know how Twitter is able to knife its founder (Dorsey) and install a new puppet for its political masters.

Twitter has been acquiescing to Modi government’s requests to shut down the accounts of critics and opponents for far too long.

At the threat of being kicked out of its third largest market.

Disgruntled employee of the week award

Let's see ... posting stuff on a social network platform and you expect anything to be private? Not very smart.

The old adage of "if you aren't paying for the service, then YOU are the product being sold" still applies. Shocking.

/s

Here's the fix for all social networks, if you expect privacy: https://lifehacker.com/how-to-block-unwanted-ads-in-all-applications-and-speed-30814279 Basically, block them at the network layer. A more elegant solution is to use a pi-hole as a LAN DNS server/blocker, but average folks are likely to find that a bit too hard.

I've watched the full Zatko testimony now, I would be surprised if Twitter's leadership team and board can avoid jail time. SEC fraud alone looks like a solid prospect, and given hints about staff complaints evidence will be easy to collect.

At least I'm no longer perplexed as to why TWTR was trying to restrict info to Musk, it's damaging, and IMHO, CRIMINAL.

From speaking to people in law enforcement it seems that while the US will often inform tech companies that they have employees working for a foreign intelligence organization on their staff or that their information systems have been compromised by one of the Advanced Persistent Threat actors, many firms choose to do nothing fearing that if the information were to become public knowledge their stock value and market capitalization would suffer.

Recently the US government has changed tactics. Now when a firm is non responsive they will go to court and obtain a court order to go into their information system and fix the vulnerabilities and remove threatening malware. The current position is that these malware threats are so great, are not confined to the firm hosting the malware and affect so many innocent parties that firms have no right to ignore it any more. So far the courts are agreeing.