Twitter Inc. has a new whistleblower who has told Congress and the Federal Trade Commission that engineers at the company still have the use of a controversial tool that gives them godlike powers over content.
According to The Washington Post, which first reported the story today, the whistleblower is saying that a program called “GodMode” is still available to engineers at Twitter. This mode makes it possible to log into an account and write, restore or delete content – a powerful tool indeed.
The program has been available to any engineers who have it on their company laptop. What’s more, the whistleblower said in the new complaint that Twitter doesn’t even have the ability to log who’s used the program.
GodMode was the reason Twitter suffered one of its greatest humiliations in 2020 when, for a short time, the accounts of some of its most high-profile users were hacked. Some of the hijacked accounts belonged to people such as Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Bill Gates, which at the end of the day wasn’t as disastrous as it could have been. It was later discovered that internal tools had been hacked — namely GodMode.
Twitter later said that it had taken care of such glaring security issues, although during the drama that was Elon Musk’s effort to buy Twitter in 2022, the company’s former head of security Peiter Zatko turned whistleblower. He again embarrassed Twitter when he outlined what he called “extreme, egregious deficiencies” in Twitter’s...
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