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To be honest this whole thing seems overblown to me, Zatko is complaining that the board weren't aware that Twitter had massive security holes. There is one sma
by SilverBirch 4y ago
To be honest this whole thing seems overblown to me, Zatko is complaining that the board weren't aware that Twitter had massive security holes. There is one small problem with this accusation. Twitter's board hired famous ethical hacker Mudge to tackle their security issues. Maybe Zatko will eviscerate Mudge's failings under oath, but that doesn't get you very far since Zatko is Mudge*.
- criddell 4y agoZatko was hired by the CEO (Dorsey) and reported to the CEO and CTO, not the board. Zatko says an inaccurate and misleading security report was going to be made to the board at their Dec 9/21 meeting and he was able to stop it. Agrawal let the report go to the board's Risk Committee a week later. Zatko then reported that the Risk Committee meeting report was fraudulent (because of the inaccuracies?) and was fired two weeks later. Twitter then paid him $7 million to shut up but an NDA can't block an SEC whistleblower complaint. I took all that information from this article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2022/twitter-whistleblower-sec-spam/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2022/t...
- SilverBirch 4y agoYes, but if you read his complaint, he makes clear direct statements that Agrawal lied about things that are clearly jdugement calls, so he's already established himself as over-reaching. It's also worth noting $7m is not a big severence for this kind of departure - Swisher weighed in on this and her reaction to 7m was "that's not a big severence for this sort of thing", let alone to cover up wrongdoing.