Elon Musk‘of twitter Scandals continue unabated. The company is facing another whistleblower complaint. This time, the claim came from a former employee who claimed that any Twitter engineer still has access to an internal program known as “GodMode.” This mod allows engineers to tweet from any account.
Complaint, to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in October presented. Allegedly, the program, now renamed “privileged mode”, remains on the laptop of any engineer who requests it. The program changes from “FALSE” to “TRUE”, apparently requiring only a production computer and simple code.
Unfortunately, it’s not the first time Twitter’s security practices disappoint users. In 2020, young crypto scammers hacked the company’s internal systems and the President Joe Biden, former President Barack Obama, Elon Musk and sent fake tweets from other celebrities’ accounts. Unfortunately, many people are deceived by these fake tweets shared by official accounts.
Twitter’s executives at the time claimed they had fixed the problem and launched a “comprehensive information security program” to protect users. However, some informants That GodMode is still widely available He claimed. According to the information received, the file was reopened after the complaints. This revealed that the engineers could also delete or restore anyone’s tweets. This is a privilege that regular Twitter users don’t have.
The real scandal is that there is no record of which account was hacked or who did it. The FTC is reportedly speaking to former Twitter employees about the allegations. If the FTC decides that Twitter is not protecting its users’ information, this could have serious consequences.