Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Friday, July 24th, 2020. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today, might Twitter have too many cooks in the kitchen to have decent op sec Intel has to delay its next

gen chip process again. The US unveiled official plans for a quantum internet.

AT&T announced its nationwide 5G network is operational and of course the weekend long read

suggestions. Here's what you missed today in the world of tech. More details about the big Twitter hijacking. I think we speculated on the weekend bonus

episode how many people inside Twitter might have been able to you you know, leave the barn door open if financially induced to do so, if you will.

Well, two former Twitter employees are saying that more than 1,000 Twitter staff and contractors had access to internal tools

that could change account settings and ownership as recently as earlier this year.

A full thousand people. So yeah, that's a sizable threat vector to think about,

quoting Reuters.

The former employees familiar with Twitter security practices

said that too many people could have done the same thing more

than 1,000 as of early in 2020 including some at contractors like cognizant.

Twitter declined to comment on that figure and would not say whether the number declined before the hack or since.

The company was looking for a new security head, working to better secure its systems and training employees on resisting tricks from outsiders,

Twitter said.

Cognizant did not respond to a request for comment.

That sounds like there are too many people with access, said Edward Amaroso,

former chief security officer at AT&T. Responsibilities among the staff should have been split up with access rights limited to those responsibilities and more than one person required to agree to make the most sensitive account changes.

In order to do cyber security right, you can't forget the boring stuff, he said, end quote. Intel has been forced to admit that it is delaying the rollout of its 7 nanometer

CPU by a further six months, which means Intel is now a full 12 months behind the company's

original target for rolling out the 7 nanometer process.

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