A former Twitter employee convicted of spying for Saudi Arabia is seeking a retrial after Peter Zatko, the site’s former security chief, reported that all employees were able to access users’ personal information.
Ahmad Abuamu said in a Bloomberg report translated by Arabi21 that Zatco’s surprise report to the Senate may help him in his case, and his lawyer argued before the defense that the report showed that the company compared to The users themselves are indifferent.
Zatko’s report was presented to several US government agencies last July and exposed loopholes on Twitter, but it was not made public until the end of Abu Amo’s trial last August.
Abu Amo claimed prosecutors committed misconduct by refusing to report one of the arguments his lawyers presented in his case to persuade the judge to overturn his sentence, but Bloomberg said such arguments are common in criminal cases and rarely successful. be.
His attorneys wrote that the content of Zatko’s report contained information exonerating Abu Amo of wrongdoing and “reflected strong impeachment evidence from numerous government witnesses who testified about Twitter’s privacy protections.”
In his Senate testimony, Zatko described Twitter’s “ticking time bomb security vulnerabilities” as a result of outdated software and widespread access by employees to users’ personal information.
Twitter said it fired Zatko in January. It cited “misrepresentations about Twitter and its privacy and data security practices” for the poor performance.
A court in San Francisco, California convicted former Twitter employee Ahmed Abuamo, a US resident and born in Egypt, on charges of spying for Saudi Arabia, participating in money laundering, conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Internet and falsification of records. .
According to the American agency “Bloomberg”, the jury found Ahmed Abu Amo guilty after a two-week trial in the San Francisco Federal Court, and after issuing the sentence, he faces 10 to 20 years in prison.
Source: Lebanon Debate
