Peiter ‘Mudge’ Zatko: The wild card in Musk’s clash with Twitter


Musk has listed the number of inauthentic accounts on Twitter as among reasons to justify walking away from the buyout deal he made in April. — AFP

SAN FRANCISCO: Respected in cybersecurity circles, former Twitter security chief Peiter “Mudge” Zatko is a wild card in Elon Musk’s legal gambit to break a US$44bil (RM198.30bil) deal to buy the social network.

Zatko’s whistleblower complaint of “extreme, egregious deficiencies” in Twitter defences against hackers and “meager efforts to fight spam” plays into Musk’s quest to convince a judge that he was duped when he foisted his unsolicited offer on the company.

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