Twitter Tells US Senator It's Cutting Ties To Swiss Tech Firm

Twitter told a U.S. senator it is cutting ties with a European technology company that helped it send sensitive passcodes to its users via text message. From a report: The social media firm said in a disclosure to U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, a Democrat from Oregon, that it is "transitioning" its service away from working with Mitto AG, according to a Wyden aide. A co-founder of Mitto operated a service that helped governments secretly surveil and track mobile phones, according to former employees and clients, as Bloomberg News and London-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism reported in December. Twitter cited media reports as the motivating factor behind its decision, the Wyden aide said. Several other companies have allegedly already cut ties with Mitto. In recent weeks, messaging companies Kaleyra and MessageBird have both ceased commercial relationships with Mitto, according to three people familiar with the matter.

Crypto AG Pt2: Electric Boogaloo

[GameboyRMH]

Except this time it looks like they were selling MITM access to Middle Eastern governments rather than being a front for US spooks:

https://www.cpomagazine.com/da... [cpomagazine.com]

Re:

[XXongo]

In fact, the US was the target in some cases.

The former employees appear to have provided documents to Bloomberg, with one indicating that in 2019 a senior U.S. State Department official was targeted for surveillance via the Mitto text messaging services.
https://www.cpomagazine.com/da... [cpomagazine.com]

Re: Crypto AG Pt2: Electric Boogaloo

[Jigglypants]

They helped Russia (or perhaps even Rudy Giuliani) track former Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch prior to her recall and Trumpâ(TM)s pressure campaign on Zelensky.

Good

[jellomizer]

While I have no actual love for Twitter, However ethical concerns should be factored into business partners a company uses, and if a company is doing unethical actions, that are actually rather well known, then companies that are in partnership do have responsibility in the unethical actions. Or companies should discontinue their partnership sooner than later, to make sure that they themselves by their money is supporting the unethical actions.

Especially today with technology (like Twitter itself) being ab

Competition is not accepted

[Teun]

So Twitter does not accept competition on it's home turf.
Who is surprised?

Re:

[XXongo]

So Twitter does not accept competition on it's home turf.

The difference is that Twitter gets information from its users that they freely and cheerfully give away. No back door needed.

Mittal, on the other hand (if the allegations [rcrwireless.com] are right) put in back doors secretly.