Twitter is extremely vulnerable to foreign exploitation by governments, such as Russia and China, as well as possibly having spies on its active payroll, a damning whistleblower report has revealed.
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The whistleblower at the centre of the revelation is the social media company’s former security chief Peiter “Mudge” Zatko. Mr Zatko, a network security expert, programmer and hacker, is central to a nearly-200-page public disclosure effort, according to reports by CNN and The Washington Post.
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