The scandals on Elon Musk’s Twitter are incessant. The company is facing another whistleblower complaint. This time from a former employee who claims that any Twitter engineer still has access to an internal program known as “GodMode,”. This mode allows engineers to tweet from any account. Here are the details…
Twitter engineers can still use ‘GodMode’ to tweet as any account
The complaint filed to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in October. Allegedly, the program now renamed “privileged mode,” remains on the laptops of any engineer who wants it.It seems that the requiring only a production computer and a simple code change from “FALSE” to “TRUE.”
Unfortunately, this isn’t the first time Twitter’s security practices have disappointed users. In 2020, teenage crypto scammers hacked the company’s internal systems and sent fake tweets from the accounts of President Joe Biden, former President Barack Obama, Elon Musk, and other celebrities. Unfortunately, many people are fooled by these fake tweets shared by official accounts.
Twitter’s executives at the time claimed that they had fixed the issue and launched a “comprehensive information security program” to protect the users. However, some whistleblowers, claimed that GodMode was still widely available. According to the information received, the file was reopened after the complaints. Which revealed that engineers could also delete or restore anyone’s tweets. This is a privilege that is not available to regular Twitter users.
The real scandal is that there is no record of which account was tampered or who did it. The FTC is reportedly interviewing former Twitter employees about the allegations. If the FTC decides that Twitter is failing to protect its users’ information, this could have serious consequences.
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