{"id":6789,"date":"2022-08-24T05:37:17","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T03:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/24\/how-twitters-whistleblower-could-boost-elon-musks-legal-battle\/"},"modified":"2022-08-24T05:37:17","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T03:37:17","slug":"how-twitters-whistleblower-could-boost-elon-musks-legal-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/24\/how-twitters-whistleblower-could-boost-elon-musks-legal-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"How Twitter\u2019s whistleblower could boost Elon Musk\u2019s legal battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peiter Zatko, former security chief, brought allegations of widespread security threats and spam concerns against the company<\/p>\n<p>New whistleblower allegations of widespread security threats and spam concerns at Twitter may give Elon Musk ammunition in his fight to back out of a deal to buy the company.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/aug\/23\/twitter-whistleblower-peiter-zatko-mudge-security\">an 84-page complaint<\/a> written by Twitter\u2019s former security chief turned whistleblower, Peiter Zatko, alleged that Twitter prioritizes user growth over reducing spam, did not have a plan in place for major security issues, and that half the company\u2019s servers were running out-of-date and vulnerable software.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/aug\/23\/twitter-whistleblower-elon-musk-termination-penalty\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/7ea52e0806e9c0abb53746f694f6f83675cd1ab5\/0_76_4927_2956\/master\/4927.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=ded8835bc9bac70f509289d1c4b552e9\" title=\"How Twitter\u2019s whistleblower could boost Elon Musk\u2019s legal battle\" \/>Peiter Zatko, former security chief, brought allegations of widespread security threats and spam concerns against the company<br \/>\nNew whistleblower allegations of widespread security threats and spam concerns at Twitter may give Elon Musk ammunition in his fight to back out of a deal to buy the company.<br \/>\nOn Tuesday, an 84-page complaint written by Twitter\u2019s former security chief turned whistleblower, Peiter Zatko, alleged that Twitter prioritizes user growth over reducing spam, did not have a plan in place for major security issues, and that half the company\u2019s servers were running out-of-date and vulnerable software. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peiter Zatko, former security chief, brought allegations of widespread security threats and spam concerns against the company New whistleblower allegations of widespread security threats and spam concerns at Twitter may give Elon Musk ammunition in his fight to back out of a deal to buy the company. On Tuesday, an 84-page complaint written by Twitter\u2019s &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/24\/how-twitters-whistleblower-could-boost-elon-musks-legal-battle\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How Twitter\u2019s whistleblower could boost Elon Musk\u2019s legal battle<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6789"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}