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jsrailton

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Chasing online badness. Senior Researcher at Citizen Lab. Views mine.

Also, I like tracking stuck boats.

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jsrailton, to Youtube
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Where can I find current advanced university lectures / lecture series on arbitrary scientific and technical topics?

I'm finding these are really hard to surface on .

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@joelvanderwerf Good tip. I almost thought to add: I've found MIT Open CourseWare helpful. But also struggled with the fact that a lot of the topical courses are from like 200X-201X

Which for some topics makes them dated:(

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So... the ran a Truman Show on this 🇨🇳spy for 8 years?

Wild.

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This ex-CIA PRC spy basically lived his 50s in a constructed universe, thinking he was unobserved.

Like the Robert Hanssen story on steroids.

I want to watch this movie.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-cia-officer-pleads-guilty-conspiracy-commit-espionage-0

jsrailton, (edited ) to random
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When politicians attack the means of knowledge transmission like libraries, science, teachers & universities, remember:

Your ignorance is their power.

jsrailton, to poland
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NEW: second judge in reportedly confirmed as spyware victim.

Appeals court judge told reporter her responsibilities included classified cases where wiretapping was used.

Poland's spyware reckoning continues.

[PL, machine trans.]
Story: https://oko.press/wiemy-o-drugim-polskim-sedzi-inwigilowanym-pegasusem-to-sedzia-apelacyjna-z-krakowa-news-oko-press

jsrailton, (edited ) to environment
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Reading this🧵? Your blood probably contains some amount of toxic #foreverchemicals made by #3m

Enough to spike your risk of cancers & illnesses?

Without a blood test, you have no idea.

Why is their toxin running in your veins?

Well, 3M & #dupont kept the harms secret even as their toxins were incorporated into...everything.

From french fry bags to chairs.

They gaslit their own scientists.

& regularly dumped, creating toxic zones. 1/

https://www.propublica.org/article/3m-forever-chemicals-pfas-pfos-inside-story

#environment #pollution

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2/ Risks from include Diabetes, obesity, testicular , developmental delays...

Some researchers think that anyone exposed to these chemicals will have an elevated cancer risk.

At ANY concentration.

Since scientists estimate that we ALL have at least one of these forever chemicals in our blood...

That would be all of us.

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3/ If the "we are all at risk of cancer" from framing for some reason doesn't bug you, consider the taxpayer costs.

Numbers are staggering.

$64 billion in estimated increased disease burden in a single year.

Meanwhile makes $1.5 billion a year from making the stuff.

And 16,000 of 3M's products still contain the chemical.

While company pledges to wind down manufacture. They haven't stopped.

To date, 3m has not admitted wrongdoing and faced no criminal liability

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4/We're all living in a nonconsensual lab experiment on the effect of chemicals on health.

Short of a rocket to mars, we're stuck in the cage. There is no control group.

American? Look at the map. See light blue near you? That is not good news.

Search for your home address in this map to if your drinking water might be above EPA limits.

Keep in mind this is JUST tap water, there are other routes to exposure.

MAP: https://www.ewg.org/interactive-maps/pfas_contamination/map/

jsrailton, (edited ) to Health
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Even for cancer and transplant patients.

We are speeding into idiocracy.

#cancer #transplantation #immunocompromised #health #healthcare #masks #northcarolina

jsrailton, to infosec
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FINALLY: a 🇺🇸US official speaks the truth security researchers keep warning about...

Americans' movements being tracked with well-known weaknesses that US telcos aren't fixing.

It's remarkable how bad the problem with #SS7 & #Diameter is.

Must-read story by @josephcox
https://www.404media.co/cyber-official-speaks-out-reveals-mobile-network-attacks-in-u-s/

#infosec #cybersecurity #hacking #intelligence #surveillance #espionage

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I can confidently diagnose #betterhelp as sociopaths.

Promised therapy customers privacy...then gave their mental health info to advertisers.

Victims get less than ten bucks each.

Company made billion+ in revenue last year alone.

In a just society with good privacy laws, they'd face existential civil & criminal consequences.

https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/nation-world/betterhelp-therapy-class-action-settlement-refund/507-b4ef5e0f-c722-4562-95e9-c3cdd7738d1a

#therapy #psychology #privacy #psychotherapy #mentalhealth #telehealth #medicine #HIPAA #surveillancecapitalism #advertising #facebook #meta

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@eccentric_econ Interesting, thanks for sharing your perspective.

jsrailton, (edited ) to hacking
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    There's a disgraceful ecosystem of public relations & lobbying firms using hackers for hire.

    Sometimes they are used to silence critics & advocacy groups.

    Like US nonprofits doing climate advocacy.

    Our investigation into a group we christened uncovered a sprawling -based hack-for-hire operation.

    They enabled US corporations to outsource lawbreaking.

    https://citizenlab.ca/2020/06/dark-basin-uncovering-a-massive-hack-for-hire-operation/

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    @klefstadmyr Hi yes there is, here's the list:

    🇦🇺 🇨🇦 🇨🇷 🇩🇰 🇫🇮🇫🇷 🇩🇪🇮🇪🇯🇵🇳🇿 🇳🇴 🇵🇱🇰🇷🇸🇪 🇨🇭 🇬🇧 🇺🇸

    jsrailton, (edited ) to poland
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    BREAKING: spyware abused in 🇵🇱 under previous PiS-party government, confirms the new PM Donald Tusk

    "Very, very long" victim list.

    Vindication.

    When we @citizenlab first confirmed the hacking in 2021 both we & victims were targeted w/extensive harassment & disinformation.

    REPORT: https://apnews.com/article/poland-government-pegasus-spyware-tusk-duda-78420fc7099401926d28b5be98669192

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    NEW: heard about ? Something about ?

    Or the waxing paranoid about ?

    What does it all mean?

    Well, my @citizenlab colleague Bill Marczak has an deliciously spicy take on the unfolding saga.

    Plus some tips for defenders.

    https://medium.com/@billmarczak/triangulation-did-the-nsa-fail-to-learn-the-lessons-of-nso-5f36d251d02e

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    NEW: I found 1000s of shady PDFs hosted on .gov websites of states, universities, defense contractors, etc.

    It was a clever SEO spam operation, but the access could have been exploited for more nefarious things. 1/

    @lorenzofb has the writeup

    https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/02/scammers-publish-ads-for-hacking-services-on-government-websites/

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    2/ SEO operations like this are a bit like opportunistic infections for Content Management Systems.

    They show up when there are bugs, misconfigurations & permissions issues.

    rapidly pushed out notifications to affected orgs & the content is coming down all over.

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    3/ The PDF spam is still all over. Including many gov sites.

    Want to help?

    1️⃣ Google search:

    "site:[pick a top-level domain e.g. .gov.au .gov.uk etc.] instagram hack followers filetype:pdf"

    2️⃣mix in terms e.g. "Tiktok" & "fans."

    3️⃣ Cry

    4️⃣Gently notify administrators

    jsrailton, to random
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    Remember Tara Reade?

    The one-time accuser is live on 🇷🇺Russian State TV announcing that she's defected.

    Sitting with Maria Butina whom she refers to as a friend.

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    Notice how fast alleged medical concern for youth became... smash rainbow displays at Target?

    This is a playbook.

    It must be forcefully resisted.

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    Life in prison for sex in .

    American evangelical extremists got the ear of Uganda's dictator & helped this happen

    They have the same goals for people that are in 🇺🇸America.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/29/world/africa/uganda-anti-gay-bill.html

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    Proven way to stop an autocrat?

    Don't be a spoiler candidate like this guy.

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    Everything you need to know.

    Letting Steve Bannon flatter you into a vanity candidacy is the opposite of moral courage.

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