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Kennedy Saves the World

Dave Kennedy Saves You From Twitter’s Irresponsibility

Kennedy Saves the World

FOX News Podcasts

Entertainment News, Society & Culture, News, News Commentary

4.5812 Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2022

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

On this episode, Kennedy sits down with Founder of TrustedSec and Co-Founder and Chief Hacking Officer of Binary Defense Systems, Dave Kennedy to discuss Peiter “Mudge” Zatko's public claim accusing Twitter of cybersecurity negligence. Dave explains how the whistleblower disclosure says that Twitter purposefully skews the number of bots and hackers to show investors in order to drive revenue and shares his take on whether listeners should believe Mudge throughout the rest of his claims. Follow Kennedy on Twitter: @KennedyNation Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Some follow the noise.

0:03.3

Bloomberg follows the money.

0:05.4

Because behind every headline is a bottom line.

0:09.3

Whether it's the funds fueling AI or crypto's trillion dollar swings,

0:13.8

there's a money side to every story.

0:16.5

And when you see the money side, you understand what others miss.

0:20.8

Get the money side of you understand what others miss.

0:22.3

Get the money side of the story.

0:25.2

Subscribe now at Bloomberg.com. Thank you. Welcome to this episode of Kennedy Saves the World.

0:45.0

And today, we're going to have to save you from Twitter's irresponsibility.

0:50.4

There is, their head of security has come forward and filed a complaint with the SEC because Twitter has not been a responsible steward of people's privacy and information.

1:04.8

And also they have left themselves very vulnerable to some hackery.

1:10.0

And that is never a good thing unless you're a lawn Musk.

1:13.1

Because the person who came out, the former head of security,

1:16.8

whose name is Peter Mudge Zatko, he claims a number of things,

1:22.0

which the only thing Twitter has really said about any of this is,

1:25.7

he wasn't really good at his job and he's just

1:27.9

bitter. And it's like, well, he's making some pretty extraordinary claims. And this may help

1:34.9

Elon Musk's bid if he's right now trying to completely scrap the takeover of Twitter. And, you know,

1:44.0

the $44 billion price tag could be

1:46.3

chipped away if, in fact, some of these claims are realized. And he's saying that Twitter has

1:54.7

known that they've got just a ton of spam and bot accounts, but their executives are paid

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