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Any Twitter engineer today can still activate a program that would allow them to tweet from any account, according to a new whistleblower who has emerged and filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission.

It backs up claims in an earlier whistleblower complaint by Peiter “Mudge” Zatko, who made more extensive allegations about Twitter security problems, my colleague Joseph Menn reports. The program in question in the latest complaint was once known as “GodMode” at the company.

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Furthermore, “Twitter does not have the capability to log which, if any, engineers use or abuse GodMode,” the new complaint says.

One very notable element of the complaint is that it was filed in October — after billionaire Elon Musk purchased the company — and the problem allegedly continues.

• Musk inherited his share of security woes from the prior leadership of the social media platform, from a 2011 FTC consent decree to the subjects of Zatko’s headline-catching congressional testimony and complaint.
• Much (albeit not all) regulatory scrutiny of Twitter security thus far has been for things that didn’t happen under his ownership....

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