Peiter “Mudge” Zatko
Watch complete hearing with Twitter Whistleblower Peiter “Mudge” Zatko here
“I’m here today because Twitter leadership is misleading the public, lawmakers, regulators and even its own board of directors.”
WATCH: Twitter Whistleblower Peiter “Mudge” Zatko complete opening statement.
Twitter Shareholders Approve Musk’s $44 Billion Buyout as Trial Looms
Approval paves the way for trial over disputed deal in October
Musk, seeking to back out, didn’t vote his shares either way
Twitter shareholders voted for their own financial interests, not the health of the information ecosystem. While the Elon Musk drama unfolds, Twitter has much to do to uphold its integrity standards
https://www.courthousenews.com/twitters-cybersecurity-flaws-pose-national-security-risk-whistleblower-tells-congress/
and
https://www.courthousenews.com/twitters-cybersecurity-flaws-pose-national-security-risk-whistleblower-tells-congress/
“They didn’t care how much it would cost them.” People around Twitter whistleblower Peiter “Mudge” Zatko are being inundated by offers from secret clients paying for dirt on him, as he testifies on the Hill about an alleged security crisis at Twitter.
Hackers and Security Experts Warn Senate Panel October 7, 1997
Mudge, Spacerogue, L0pht, Hacker News Network, @Stake, Tenable
THIS IS AN EXERCISE IN THINKING – AND – REALITY
- Security can be defined as the science of things that shouldn’t happen.
- “There’s always a way in”
- You’re only as secure as your least encrypted hop.
HOW HACKING GOT STARTED
The Rise of the Underground Engineer By Larry Lange
Hobbit, @dotMudge and Yobie refer to it simply as “The Dinner.” and six others founded the L0pht pretty much out of necessity in the early 1990s. “Everybody had apartments or rooms, but the ‘significant others’ were complaining that there were computers in the bathtub, software strewn all over the place and reams of computer paper all over,” Mudge relates. “So we decided if we all chipped in we could afford a loft space.”
See the Video May 19, 1998 Hackers Testifying at the United States Senate, (L0pht Heavy Industries)
“Computing with High Ethics”
Ethical Hackers “hax0rs” Starting an InfoSec Career.
In Times When Public Institutions, & Agencies Are Weakening the Trust of the Public
How do you protect the fact finding process?
Title: U.S. Report Weighs Impact of E-Commerce
Source: New York Times (CyberTimes) 4/16/98
video e-commerce – evolution from 1994 – 1911
Can’t believe someone would actually take out a credit card and purchase something over a computer!