## Colophon date: title:: Former security chief claims Twitter buried ‘egregious deficiencies’ type:: [[literature-note]] tags:: url:: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2022/twitter-whistleblower-sec-spam/ status:: [[bean]] ## Notes > For example, Zatko would encounter disinformation as part of his mandate to handle complaints, according to the complaint. To that end, he commissioned an outside report that found one of the disinformation teams had unfilled positions, yawning language deficiencies, and a lack of technical tools or the engineers to craft them. The authors said Twitter had no effective means of dealing with consistent spreaders of falsehoods. — [view in context](https://hyp.is/f1KWZiONEe2RlJvprK_VoA/www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2022/twitter-whistleblower-sec-spam/) - Annotation: under-resourced to take on disinformation.> A successful hacker takeover of one of those machines would have been able to sabotage the product with relative ease, because the engineers pushed out changes without being forced to test them first in a simulated environment, current and former employees said. A person familiar with the matter said Twitter had adequate defenses. — [view in context](https://hyp.is/LA-8HCOOEe2cgwOCBgiYPQ/www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2022/twitter-whistleblower-sec-spam/) - Annotation: No staging environment sounds scary.