Distributed Denial of Secrets: the TeleMessage hacker stole messages from 60+ US government users covering about one day ending on May 4, including travel plans
A hacker who breached the communications service used by former Trump national security adviser Mike Waltz earlier … Bluesky: @metacurity.com , @stokel , @zachsdorfman , and @micahflee.com Mastodon: @...
A look at the AI Objectives Institute, founded by deceased privacy luminary Peter Eckersley, aiming to influence AI's evolution and safeguard humanity's future
Peter Eckersley did groundbreaking work to encrypt the web. After his sudden death, a new organization he founded is carrying … Mastodon: @micahflee@infosec.exchange , @agreenberg@infosec.exchange , ...
Donie O'Sullivan, Drew Harwell, and other journalists remain locked out of their Twitter accounts despite lifted suspensions, until they delete a specific tweet
I've been writing critically about billionaire Elon Musk since he took over Twitter — particularly about his “free speech” … Mastodon: @ErrataRob@infosec.exchange , @parismarx@mastodon.online , @ali_g...
An examination of the 65GB of hacked data from Gab finds that only 1.5M of the total 4M+ Gab accounts in the repository have posted content to the site
Micah Lee / The Intercept : Tweets: @micahflee , @3r1ng , @3r1ng , @theintercept , @quinncy , @natsecgeek , and @3r1ng Tweets: Micah / @micahflee : Inside @getongab, the Online Safe Space for Far-Rig...
Researchers: Zoom sometimes uses encryption keys issued by servers in China, uses a flawed encryption method, and hence is not suited to communicate secrets
but it can be fixed Stephen Warwick / iMore : Today on Zoom: ‘Not suited for secrets’, encryption issues and more Mercury News : Zoombombing: FBI warns video calls are getting hijacked Tweets: Glenn F...
Leaked Chinese government docs reveal the mechanics of running mass detention camps in Xinjiang, predictive policing, mass surveillance, and snooping on expats
"brainwashing" — to which China is subjecting at least one million detained Uighur and other Turkic Muslims until they renounce Islam and their ethnicity. https://www.bbc.com/... https://twitter.com/....
A deep dive into the methods used to unmask confidential sources in seven Justice Department cases against US government whistleblowers
Micah Lee / The Intercept : Tweets: @rsingel , @freedomofpress , @trevortimm , @micahflee , @theintercept , and @theintercept Tweets: Ryan Singel / @rsingel : Jesus this is scary. It makes clear that...
Sprint, AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile deny being the “US telecom” mentioned in today's Bloomberg story alleging compromised Supermicro hardware
at this point—makes little sense. http://motherboard.vice.com/ ... Micah Lee / @micahflee : Bloomberg now has a follow-up story claiming that an unnamed “major U.S. telecommunications company” discove...
How three ProPublica reporters were attacked with Twitter bots and “email bombs” that forced the closure of reporters' email accounts
and inexpensive — it is for haters to disrupt our work.” https://www.propublica.org/... Micah Lee / @micahflee : After journalists contacted extremist websites to fact-check an article, hate groups em...
Windows 10 disk encryption keys are uploaded to Microsoft; Home users can delete copy from account, only Pro and Enterprise users can opt out when re-encrypting
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