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Joseph Menn: Ex-Twitter engineer tells #FTC security violations persist after #Musk: Too many people can still access a program (GodMode) that lets them tweet under any account, he says in a complaint

"'Twitter does not have the capability to log which, if any, engineers use or abuse GodMode,' the complaint says.

"The complaint includes screenshots of the code in question. The program line that allows a #GodMode user to delete tweets contains the capitalized comment: 'THINK BEFORE YOU DO THIS.'

"The document also includes photographs of electronic conversations between the #whistleblower and his then-colleagues. In one discussion, he suggested a technique an engineer could use to deploy the tinkered code, and a co-worker replied that there was an easier way.

"'It’s one of those scenarios where no one has tried to break into the car through the sunroof because the window is cracked and the keys are in the visor #lol,' he told the whistleblower."

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/01/24/whistleblower-twtter-ftc-settlement