The platform's former head of security Zatko's whistleblower complaint of "extreme, egregious deficiencies" in Twitter defenses against hackers and "meager efforts to fight spam" plays into Musk's quest to convince a judge that he was duped when he foisted his unsolicited offer on the company
San Francisco, United States: Respected in cybersecurity circles, former Twitter security chief Peiter "Mudge" Zatko is a wild card in Elon Musk's legal gambit to break a $44 billion deal to buy the social network.