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All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg

E93: Twitter whistleblower, cloud security vulnerabilities, student debt forgiveness & more

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg

All-In Podcast, LLC

Alllin, Coronavirus, Calacanis, Palihapitiya, Health, Sacks, Friedberg, Allin, Entrepreneurship, Covid19, Gambling, Grow, Investing, Iq, Tips, Tech, Business, Jason, Startups, Poker, Technology, Money, Learn, Davidsacks, Davidfriedberg, Chamath

4.27.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2022

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

0:00 Bestie intros!

1:25 Twitter's former head of security makes allegations against the company

22:08 Foreign countries placing government agents in US tech companies, cloud security vulnerabilities

33:54 Student loan forgiveness

1:03:25 Red wave or red ripple?

1:07:57 Science corner: Gut microbiome, fecal transplants

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Referenced in the show:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2022/twitter-whistleblower-sec-spam

https://www.npr.org/2022/08/23/1119071586/twitter-whistleblower-complaint-elon-musk-security-bots-fake-users

https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/23/tech/twitter-whistleblower-peiter-zatko-security/index.html

https://time.com/6207996/twitter-whistleblower-allegations/

https://twitter.com/DavidSacks/status/1562179576800763904

https://twitter.com/DavidSacks/status/1562179705322684416

https://www.reuters.com/world/india/india-forced-twitter-put-agent-payroll-whistleblower-says-2022-08-23

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1562105413977493504

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2022-08-24-musk-gets-a-potential-boost-with-twitter-whistle-blowers-claims-2

https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/23/tech/twitter-whistleblower-peiter-zatko-security/index.html

https://www.zuckermanlaw.com/sp_faq/largest-sec-whistleblower-awards

https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2021/06/30/the-need-for-legislative-reform-on-secrecy-orders

https://theliberalpatriot.substack.com/p/the-democrats-shifting-coalition

https://fortune.com/2022/08/24/biden-changing-income-driven-repayment-plan-student-debt-borrowers

https://twitter.com/LHSummers/status/1562040653432999936

https://www.socialcapital.com/ideas/2021-annual-letter

https://www.cookpolitical.com/analysis/house/2022-primaries/red-wave-looks-more-ripple

https://www.cell.com/cell/pdf/S0092-8674(22)00919-9.pdf

https://grow.google

Transcript

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0:00.0

I wanna play the theme music for this episode, okay? Hold on a second. Here we go.

0:12.6

If you let the Indian government plant spies in your office, give a little whistle!

0:21.2

If you have too many bots, you can come up with your own metric, MDAUs.

0:26.5

MDAUs.

0:30.5

When you want to incense your staff to not look at the bots, give them bonuses based on dows.

0:36.5

Based on dows.

0:40.5

Always let your bonus be your guide.

0:45.5

When you're on the board and you see metrics that you don't like, turn a blind eye.

0:51.5

I'm sorry, I just got the peanut.

0:57.5

Everybody's getting the peanut.

1:00.5

This is Jake L. at his best.

1:04.5

You gotta stop.

1:06.5

You gotta stop. You gotta go to trouble.

1:25.5

This is gonna be the story of 2022 for sure.

1:28.5

Right before, I guess the big case between Elon and Twitter is about to happen, I guess in October at some point, a Twitter whistleblower has come forward and dropped a nuke into the middle of what was basically the story of the year in business I think.

1:45.5

The former head of security hired by Jack himself and incredibly well respected Peter Mudge, Zatco.

1:55.5

He's referred to as Mudge.

1:58.5

One of the most respected people in the security industry, again recruited by Jack in 2020 after a team of hackers, you may have remember took over all these verified accounts Obama, Biden and and and and the

2:10.5

Alliance account as well.

2:12.5

And he was head of security until January of this year eight months ago.

2:16.5

And he claims through explosive documents, a huge document dump that Twitter execs ignored these Twitter executives ignored multiple security vulnerabilities.

2:27.5

Now why is this important?

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