Haha yes! YESS

Feb 8: "The U.S. is staring down a future in which it will no longer be trusted for intelligence sharing by any of its fellow Five Eyes nations."
medium.com/@violetblue/...

There’s a lot of extremely good discourse over there highlighting the hypocrisy of this while they host innumerable subs glorifying violence against women. It could easily get picked up by broader media if they felt like it

Camera off: Akira deploys ransomware via webcam Learn how Akira ransomware exploited an unsecured webcam to bypass cybersecurity measures and deploy ransomware, highlighting key lessons and strategies for improved IoT security.

‘As the device was not being monitored, the victim organisation's security team were unaware of the increase in malicious Server Message Block (SMB) traffic from the webcam to the impacted server, which otherwise may have alerted them’.
www.s-rminform.com/latest-think...

Very little edr is mature enough to detect threat actors with the out of box detections on Linux anyway

Finally: 2025 will be the year of the Linux Desktop.

The Pangu Team—iOS Jailbreak and Vulnerability Research Giant: A Member of i-SOON’s Exploit-Sharing Network A year after the i-SOON leaks, a deep dive into the Pangu Team reveals new insight into the relationships between elite vulnerability researchers and government-contracted hackers

If you’re familiar with iOS jailbreaking, then you’ve likely heard of the Pangu Team.

1y after the i-SOON leaks, my latest for @nattothoughts.bsky.social examines Pangu’s ties to i-SOON and the links b/w elite vuln researchers and govt-contracted hackers

nattothoughts.substack.com/p/the-pangu-...

NATO is anti communism to some people and some people just adhere to ideological lines no matter what is happening around them

They see nato as a vehicle for US imperialism. I think this is slowly changing as people realize what’s happening in Europe and I think the invasion did change lots of people’s perceptions of this

Well a lot of people for one are very mistrustful of gov or mainstream narratives about ccp. Also anyone who is building left or liberal coalitions is trying not to alienate any kookier ideas because it’s a bad environment for organization from the left and they already have no power anyway

I don’t blame the rejection of mainstream foreign policy considering its implications but Ukraine and Taiwan are wedge situations for the harder left ppl. Most liberal folks don’t think this way tho it’s just they aren’t such present issues for them.

Leftist foreign policy rejects a lot of the mainstream liberal foreign policy for lots of reasons some of which can seem like contrarianism or aesthetics or an intense adherence to anti American imperialism to the benefit of other sources of imperialism. Or they are tankies.

there is that theory that the rise of the novel was the spark that ignited the global rise of notions of human rights

news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

It's called checks & balances, but there can't be no balances if there ain't no checks, and nobody writes checks no more.

‘Things Are Going to Get Intense:’ How a Musk Ally Plans to Push AI on the Government 404 Media has obtained audio of a meeting held by Thomas Shedd, a Musk-associate who is now heading a team of government coders. In the call one employee pushed back and said one of the planned moves ...

SCOOP: We have full details of changes Thomas Shedd, a former Tesla engineer, is asking government coders to help the administration with. This includes using login.gov as a fraud surveillance system against Americans, which employees told him is an "illegal task"

www.404media.co/things-are-g...

Spyware maker Paragon confirms U.S. government is a customer | TechCrunch Israeli spyware maker Paragon Solutions confirmed to TechCrunch that it sells its products to the U.S. government and other unspecified allied countries.

NEW: Spyware maker Paragon Solutions sent us a statement confirming the U.S. government "and its allies" are customers.

Paragon told us customers “explicitly prohibit the illicit targeting of journalists and other civil society figures.”

Lots of questions remain.

techcrunch.com/2025/02/04/s...

As digital privacy advocates have explained for years, every back door you create for yourself is a front door for an attacker.

There's no chance code cooked up in a week by Musk acolytes is secure. The question is when, not if, the Treasury will be compromised by hostiles beyond Musk himself.

it’s like russia in the 90s - the oligarchs who make deals and/or good relationships w the security services and vory win … or at least survive

It's really dystopian to see how digitizing everything, which was supposed to keep records safe, is instead being used to quickly purge information. We should have known I guess, but cripes.

WhatsApp says journalists and civil society members were targets of Israeli spyware Messaging app said it had ‘high confidence’ some users were targeted and ‘possibly compromised’ by Paragon Solutions spyware

Meta says almost 100 journalists and activists were targeted with spyware from Israeli company Paragon Solutions using a zero-click vuln in WhatsApp. If you use an iPhone, enabling Lockdown Mode prevents this from working. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

when y'all piss me off i go over to the Discover tab and pretend those are my friends

Exclusive: AngelSense exposed location data and personal information of tracked users The exposed database was connected to the internet without a password, exposing GPS coordinates, names, phone numbers, and postal addresses.

NEW, by me: GPS tracking firm AngelSense exposed the personal information and precise location data of its users to the open internet, security researchers say.

AngelSense confirmed it fixed the exposed server, which was unprotected without a password.

techcrunch.com/2025/01/30/a...

Was literally talking to the union representing federal air traffic controllers earlier today about how there’s already a major shortage of air traffic controllers and the resignation offers they all just got from OPM could seriously endanger public safety.

My bet is yes and yes

Sweden seizes ship suspected of Baltic Sea cable sabotage Swedish authorities seized and boarded the Vezhen after the cargo ship was suspected of sabotaging a communications cable beneath the Baltic Sea.

Sweden seizes ship suspected of Baltic Sea cable sabotage

via (who else) @alexmartin.bsky.social & @therecordmedia.bsky.social

I could see this leading to a situation where admins there clamp down on mods pushing this

Always do this prior to going through a security checkpoint or interacting with law enforcement

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