2022-10-08
Timely piece following Elon Musk's worrying tweets about his Ukraine “peace plan” and one-on-one chat last year with Vladimir Putin https://twitter.com/...
Financial Times
Sources: Ukrainian troops report widespread outages of Starlink devices, often in areas on the front line where their advances have not been made public yet
Saturday, October 08, 2022 // (IG): BB // INTSUM // Coffee for Bob Kris Holt / Engadget : Frontline Ukraine troops are reportedly enduring Starlink outages The Economist : Elon Mus...
2021-02-22
Good piece by @benyt on probiv, the online sale of any Russians' personal data that has energized investigative reporting in Russia. Researchers are retroactively uncovering crimes by the FSB going back years in a nightmare for the intelligence services. https://www.nytimes.com/...
New York Times
Russian investigative journalism is flourishing alongside “probiv”, the buying of data on phone calls, cell location, or air travel off Telegram or the dark web
A new wave of news outlets has used conventional, and unconventional, methods to pierce the veil of Putin's power. Tweets: @albertwenger , @benweinthal , @andrew__roth , @rasmus_kl...
2019-09-19
Security nightmare (and bad look for contractor Nokia). Leak exposes setup of Russia's SORM Internet surveillance network including hardware, personnel, credentials, and law enforcement access. Could help third parties breach invasive surveillance network. https://www.upguard.com/...
TechCrunch
Documents found on an unprotected backup drive of a Nokia Networks employee shed light on Russia's secret network surveillance system, known as SORM
collecting calls, messages, and data — on the country's largest cell network. https://techcrunch.com/...