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He adds that Twitter has “many layers of controls” to prevent unauthorized access to internal tools, including “logging, data science analysis, minimum privilege, all these things you would expect in these systems." — PolitiTweet.org

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Twitter’s former CISO @_mwc tells @richardquest that "social engineering" could mean a whole range of techniques intended to compromise Twitter employees with access to internal company tools, whether it’s “phishing emails, some sort of bribery, or other." — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @donie: Former Twitter head of security @_mwc on @cnni at 3pm ET. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @cnnadam: With the level of access they enjoyed, the hackers could have triggered a sell-off in the financial markets, issued fake polic… — PolitiTweet.org

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Security experts worry that what seemed like a lame financial scam at first may be the tip of a much larger iceberg. As @kennwhite put it to me: "If you've stolen a Ferrari, why just drive around the block?” https://t.co/zYy0cRAjl5 — PolitiTweet.org

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This and more in our new story about what’s at stake for Twitter — and our democracy — as everyone scrambles to figure out what went wrong: https://t.co/zYy0cRAjl5 — PolitiTweet.org

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Here are the relevant documents related to the earlier case. The alleged facts seem to bear at least some resemblance to what appears to have gone down this week. https://t.co/eC1gPVUUsP — PolitiTweet.org

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Since the FTC can issue fines for violations of consent orders, a finding that Twitter violated its settlement could expose Twitter to financial penalties. — PolitiTweet.org

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I spoke last night to two former directors of the FTC’s consumer protection bureau, David Vladeck and Jessica Rich. They said it’s virtually certain the FTC will investigate the Twitter hack, either as a potential violation of its 2010/11 consent order, as a new case, or both. — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

There’s some weird symmetry, or poetry, or something, in the EU’s highest court saying US surveillance laws can’t be trusted at the exact same time that the US is going around saying China’s surveillance laws can’t be trusted. — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

What happened to Huawei may be about to befall TikTok. https://t.co/njDPKdeCEB — PolitiTweet.org

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Twitter with a preliminary explanation of what happened today. Says the attackers used this unauthorized access to take control of accounts. They’re stilll investigating what other data may have been compromised. — PolitiTweet.org

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So as of now, the list of compromised Twitter accounts includes Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Uber, Apple, Kanye, Bill Gates, Joe Biden, Barack Obama and Mike Bloomberg, among others. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @brianstelter: They got the former president... https://t.co/1KKkcoSWYE — PolitiTweet.org

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Biden’s account has been affected too: https://t.co/QgAL9C5Klb — PolitiTweet.org

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Truly the weirdest timeline. How many of us had *this* on our 2020 bingo scorecards — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JohnHendel: House E&C just unanimously voted to advance the USA Telecom Act, H.R. 6624, which would invest hundreds of millions of R&D… — PolitiTweet.org

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@dhh And: “Maybe this is one of those ways where we get to the right destination in that we start asking the right questions about data and privacy and power, but we’re starting from a funny place.” — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

Just got off the phone with @DHH, who offered an important reality check on TikTok: “If you’re concerned about TikTok and what they do with your data, let me tell you about Facebook.” — PolitiTweet.org

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Pompeo says the USG is imposing visa restrictions on “certain employees of Chinese technology companies,” including Huawei: https://t.co/peHsXFpEph https://t.co/2XoZfgwEFA — PolitiTweet.org

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And… then there’s New York 🤦‍♂️ https://t.co/g3cHYOaI2V — PolitiTweet.org

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It’s so soothing seeing these https://t.co/tqSJSAaWPL — PolitiTweet.org

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So somebody dropped https://t.co/oHZ1mS7xUN into our work chat and this is exactly the calming thing I needed this week https://t.co/RnkCXq2vKh — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

At his press conference, Trump just sought credit for other countries’ decisions not to use Huawei and boasted that he was personally responsible for some of those decisions. He also referenced today’s UK announcement, though he did not explicitly try to claim credit for that. — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

House lawmakers are asking Apple and Google to make developers disclose where they store user data, and whether they’re owned by foreign companies: https://t.co/cC4yz2XjRv https://t.co/mBvIKLYWCV — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

The UK has reversed course on Huawei, banning it from building parts of the country’s 5G network: https://t.co/nAKNdF6agA via @Hadas_Gold — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

RT @kellymakena: Two hours after Amazon notifies press, employees received this message: “This morning’s email to some of your employees… — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

“Chaos is not evil, change is not wrong, conflict is not violence, and relevance is not a human right.” I always love reading @sarahjeong (but I was disappointed not to see any Lord Byron takes) https://t.co/Gkt9AMahZr — PolitiTweet.org

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@AthertonKD Oh dang, I’m behind! Guess I know what I’m doing this weekend… — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

@AthertonKD Wait is this finally happening? — PolitiTweet.org