Just submitted a #FOIA to the #FBI to try and see if they did have any investigation into potential retaliation for the sentencing of the "Atlanta 3" hackers who were linked to Legion of Doom. #hacking#hackers#history
Anyone else getting flurries of #FBI#FOIA response emails with broken links or files that you’ve previously been sent with new file names? I’ve gotten 18 emails in the last 24 hours, they’re still coming in. Something is broken.
I made a series of #FOIA requests to the #FBI for records relating to @2600, each request looking at a specific year. After some confusion the following page was released to me that wasn't from any of the years I had requested. Shall we take a look at it? https://archive.org/details/2600-1991-fbi-foia
19 pages of pre-processed #FOIA documents from the #FBI in response to my request for records relating to "PC Cyborg Corporation", a front company used in the first ever #ransomware attack, back in 1989. I have requested further documents are processed. https://archive.org/details/PC-Cyborg-FOIA
"Justice Kent Teskey warned the province that courts take a dim view of delay being used to neuter public attempts to understand how important decisions are made.
'The requesting parties have been practically denied access to the information they are entitled to at law and this court will not abet this conduct through the availability of judicial review,' he wrote in a judgment released Friday."
for years I've experienced disruption of my communications: emails disappeared, calls disappeared, etc. I was taken seriously only when pictures like these surfaced: my phone had been secretly unscrewed in the Ecuadorian embassy while I was meeting Julian #Assange. And now...
this afternoon a prominent British journalist, who has followed my #FOIA litigation on Julian #Assange and #WikiLeaks, reached me to tell me that my New Year message to him (which I sent him on Jan.3) just appeared on his phone: 4 months later.
I love document dumps. Recently, a Defense Department office dropped 2,500 pages in response to one of my #FOIA requests. They provide a pretty revealing – and somewhat startling – look at how the Biden administration struggled to counter a Russian disinformation campaign after the Ukraine invasion.
As I stray closer to the present day in my #FOIA requests this is the first one of these I’ve gotten, from the #FBI. Request was for records on poodlecorp. #hacking#hacker#history
How to FOIA (gift link):
"Every day, Washington Post reporters use public records to inform people about our communities and hold powerful people and governments accountable...
As The Post’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) director, my job is to help reporters file requests for those documents — and win them. Now, I’m sharing my best strategies, tips and secrets in this handy guide." https://wapo.st/4c1AvaD #FOIA#FreedomofInformationAct#PublicRecords#government
Submitted an #FBI#FOIA for any records relating to Jonathan Joseph James, the first juvenile #hacker incarcerated for #cybercrime in the United States. He went on to commit suicide because he thought he was going to be arrested for involvement in the soupnazi credit card theft gang. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_James
On that CNET thing in the last boost, my first thought was "this is gonna make search even more useless" and… yeeeep "They are clearly optimized to take advantage of Google’s search algorithms, and to end up at the top of peoples’ results pages"
One potentially informative thing reporters following up on that #NYC#AI#Chatbot story could do is #FOIA (or whatever the NY equivalent is) communications related to the acquisition and deployment. Who pushed for this in the first place? What did #Microsoft promise? What sort of quality / acceptance testing was done? Did anyone, anywhere along the line raise concerns that it would give out bad, potentially illegal advice?