{"id":11386,"date":"2023-01-26T20:50:13","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T19:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/2023\/01\/26\/twitter-godmode-allows-employees-to-tweet-from-any-account-new-whistleblower-claims\/"},"modified":"2023-01-26T21:39:38","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T20:39:38","slug":"twitter-godmode-allows-employees-to-tweet-from-any-account-new-whistleblower-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/2023\/01\/26\/twitter-godmode-allows-employees-to-tweet-from-any-account-new-whistleblower-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter &#039;GodMode&#039; allows employees to tweet from any account, new whistleblower claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new Twitter whistleblower has accused the company of having a so-called \u201cGodMode\u201d that allows engineers to tweet from any account. According to The Washington Post, this former Twitter employee has met with Congress and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) regarding Twitter and its security issues.<br \/>\nThe whistleblower remains annonymous to prevent harassment and threats. Back on Friday, he\/she also had a meeting with the Senate Judiciary Committee and House Energy. As per the whistleblower claims, the \u201cGodMode\u201d is now called \u201cprivileged mode\u201d following internal objections about the program.<br \/>\nThe new Twitter whistleblower continues that any engineer in the company can have access to \u201cGodMode\u201d by changing a code from \u201cFALSE\u201d to \u201cTRUE.\u201d The complaint revealed that anyone who wants to use the feature receives a warning message saying, \u201cTHINK BEFORE YOU DO THIS.\u201d<br \/>\nTwitter faces backlash over new whistleblower claims about \u201cGodMode\u201d<br \/>\nThe complaint states that the feature allows Twitter employees to tweet on behalf of advertisers. Twitter head of trust and safety, Ella Irwin, and former CEO Parag Agrawal have yet refused to comment on the matter.<br \/>\nFollowing Elon Musk\u2019s takeover, concerns about safety on Twitter are arising, and many users claim the platform is less safe under Musk. Regardless of whether this is true or false, Twitter has had some serious security glitches in recent months. Additionally, its new verification system allowed regular users to impersonate well-known people like politicians, celebrities, and companies.<br \/>\nIn 2020 a group of hackers was able to breach into Twitter systems and tweet from Elon Musk and Barack Obama accounts. At the time, Twitter agreed to launch a \u201ccomprehensive information security program that is reasonably designed to protect the security, privacy, confidentiality, and integrity of nonpublic consumer information.\u201d However, the existence of a \u201cGodMode\u201d proves Twitter employees have a backdoor to tweet from any user account.<br \/>\nThe complaint states that Twitter engineers could delete or restore any tweet, and \u201cTwitter does not have the capability to log which, if any, engineers use or abuse GodMode.\u201d<br \/>\nThe first Twitter whistleblower Peiter Zatko unveiled Twitter security holes before Elon Musk\u2019s takeover. He also revealed that the platform has lied about many security measures. The second whistleblower now says the feature is still available to Twitter fingers, and anyone with access to the engineer\u2019s device can use it.<br \/>\nThe post Twitter 'GodMode&#8217; allows employees to tweet from any account, new whistleblower claims appeared first on Android Headlines.&#013;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Twitter-Logo-New-scaled-1.jpg\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\">&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ndroidheadlines.com&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new Twitter whistleblower has accused the company of having a so-called \u201cGodMode\u201d that allows engineers to tweet from any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":11387,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bez-kategorii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11388,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11386\/revisions\/11388"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}