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Matt Beebe Profile picture
@TheMattBeebe
Dec 11, 2022 • 12 tweets • 7 min read • Read on X
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Hey @elonmusk will you release ex-Twitter security chief Peiter "Mudge" Zatko from his confidentiality agreement? He was clearly right about everything in his whistle blower complaint. How did his hiring in late '20 intersect w/ everything else?
washingtonpost.com/technology/int…
What really transpired during Mudge's tenure at Twitter, from hiring -- driven in response to the "largest hack of a social media platform in history" in July 2020 by teenagers simply asking users for passwords and going from there, to his subsequent firing is an untold story.
And it would be great to better understand to what extent Parag's tremendous ego, propensity to shade the truth, and personal responsibility for technical failures (as former CTO) played in setting the stage for the events that transpired up to the 2020 and beyond.
As an aside, it's extremely easy to see how @elonmusk was able to fire a huge % of Twitter staff & have zero negative impact -- most of them didn't know what they were doing. Twitter was a hot-mess internally due to Jack's increasing disengagement and Parag's unparalleled hubris.
Zatko's report & my excerpts contextualize the culture at Twitter & shed some light on mgmt failures; similarly, the #TwitterFiles releases show the extent to which ideologues abused trust and amassed power.
But the question remains - who really had access to what? Let's explore:
Wait, what?!??! Over-broad permissions to access sensitive areas, no auditing, and effectively ZERO controls around user privacy and data security. Mind blowing.
Don't worry though, we're trustworthy... don't worry, it was just a small number of privileged users...
Oh? REALLY?!?? "Twitter employees were repeatedly found to be intentionally installing spyware on their work computers AT THE REQUEST OF EXTERNAL ORGANIZATIONS" AYFKM??
"...multiple episodes suggesting that Twitter had been penetrated by foreign intelligence agencies and/or was complicit in threats to democratic governance"
This. This takes the cake though:
So yeah.. the question remains: who had access to what? And maybe even more essential: why?
Coda: I first met @dotMudge ~22 yrs ago when still in USAF. Always a fan & I deeply respect him; he even gave me a L0pht T-shirt "back in the day" & I suspect he still has the unit challenge coin I gave him.
~when he hired on at Twitter he blocked me😢🤔

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Sep 8, 2023
“That’s right, we took no evidence” 🤯

This is the clip that should be leading every newscast about the #PaxtonImpeachment

It’s just remarkable — watch at the end how three Senators in view (jurors — all three of which have telegraphed an anti-Paxton disposition) lean forward in unison as they realize how fatal it is to the core #txlege impeachment claims.

Watch a stoic Dean of the Senate John Witmire (D-Houston) drop his poker face for a second and give the side-eye to the #txlege House Managers that are prosecuting a case that is falling apart before their eyes.
No. It only got worse from there…
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Aug 27, 2023
Pence errored on #Jan6 by not clearly following through on what he had telegraphed his plan was: present all purported certifications, ensure all evidence was fairly presented & weighed, and led the Joint Session through roll-call votes for all contested states.

I don’t believe there was extant evidence at the time or sufficient consensus to send anything back to state legislatures/reject any slate — so Biden would still be President — but the process would have played out in a credible and transparent way.

That’s where Pence failed: he failed to lead. He played footsie with Trump’s more audacious plan and then tried to “split the baby” in secret in the final hours. Had he actually taken the reigns and led, he could have ushered in a National healing moment. He failed to do that.

Vivek’s idea of proposing a bunch of legislation that wouldn’t pass is fanciful and naive.
Recall Pence had spent the weeks leading up to #Jan6 validating the #StopTheSteal sentiment, and then cowardly released his letter at the last minute instead of messaging it & defending it. That all happened BEFORE the session convened and any protestors had been let into the Capitol. The crowd’s chants were unforgivable, but the feeling of betrayal was predictable — which is precisely why he released it the way he did instead of standing up and defending it.

The way he rolled that decision out incited the riot more than anything Trump said…
On the surface this appears to be a legitimate criticism; but it doesn’t hold up.
Elections for President (and VP) are constitutionally mandated to be (1)“republican”* in form, and (2) conducted in a manner “prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof”

Objecting to failures of these mandates & adjudicating them isn’t “federalizing” the issue.
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Jun 19, 2023
For more than two years, the “Trump was trying to get Raffensperger to lie for him” canard has been widely accepted as true, ended up in the second Articles of Impeachment, and will likely be the focus of yet another Trump indictment in Georgia.

Yesterday Barr slides this one… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
And let me be clear, the point isn’t that Barr should have “helped” Trump.

Barr, who wraps himself in the flag and distances himself from Trump’s brash style tries to transcend the moment and portray himself as a statesman.

As such, he has an obligation to be a truth teller.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
It would be easy to dismiss Barr’s unwillingness to speak truth about the election as cowardice, especially as the narrative around the January 6th riots was being set and being on “the wrong side of history” would surely be concerning for a guy like Barr.

But when you see him… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Jun 12, 2023
This DOJ has often abused 18 U.S.C. § 793(e) The Espionage Act. Let me tell you a quick story about one of the more egregious examples from recent history.
The case of Thomas Drake:
1/ twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Image
Drake was an NSA executive who became concerned about illegal activities, waste, and mismanagement within the Agency. He attempted to raise concerns through standard channels, and even elevated his concerns to Congress as a whistle-blower.
2/
Eventually he started leaking certain controlled, but *unclassified* information to a press contact.
This embarrassed Michael Hayden's NSA.
Our govt rewarded his efforts with 5 counts of retaining information, 1 charge of obstruction of justice & 4 counts of false statements.
3/
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Dec 29, 2022
In most jurisdictions the act of trafficking a child so they can be abused would be a crime. Here in Texas, a “Family” Court judge is deliberately facilitating it. Outrageous doesn’t even begin to describe it.
After multiple years of legal battles & a shameful failure to act by a Republican dominated legislature, a complex legal case is going to @SupremeCourt_TX — but the underlying facts are simple: a deranged mother wants to chop the penis off her young son.
And the Judge has granted the mother a highly atypical order allowing her the ability to unilaterally spirit the boy away to California, and has allowed her legal team to continue abusing the Family Court system to run out the clock on the father’s right to appeal.
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Dec 13, 2022
Yesterday’s 🧵 on Twitter’s abysmal information security ended with the following question “who had access to what? And maybe even more essential: why?”
Let’s let Mudge expound: “Because key parts of leadership lacked the competency to understand the scope of the problem” 🔥🤯 1/
Let’s hear that again: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it” — Upton Sinclair

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
2/
What does Twitter *really* know about you?

This is a shocking admission: 3/
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