Twitter whistleblower's testimony did little to help Elon Musk

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The testimony comes as Twitter's court fight to get Elon Musk to make good on his deal to buy the company for $44 million moves forward, but it did not appear to offer much new ammunition for Musk's case.

, it appeared that his complaints against the company could be of use in Musk’s defense.

Zatko said that he found that Twitter’s engineers, some 4,000 employees, all had extensive access to company and user account data.over improperly selling user data earlier this year — were built into the company’s operating budget.The intrigue: Zatko said he was concerned the FTC didn’t have the resources to properly investigate Twitter’s security protocols or vet the information that Twitter provided to the agency.

Parts of his testimony alleged poor internal reporting practices, which could conceivably be used by Musk in his case.

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