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

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 & 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

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2/ Risks from #foreverchemicals include Diabetes, obesity, testicular #cancer, 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.

#environment #endocrine #immunesystem

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3/ If the "we are all at risk of cancer" from #foreverchemicals 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 #3M 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 #foreverchemicals 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/

#environment #pollution

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

jsrailton, (edited ) to psychology
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I can confidently diagnose 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

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Late to the party here, but the chance that new .zip and .mov domains mostly get used for malware attacks is 100%

Not sure who asked for this, but this is a bad move.

Block it all.

This sort of thing undermines our collective & is fundamentally unhelpful.

jsrailton, to Toronto
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My colleague Mitchell & partner just escorted a family of lost geese to the lake.

Safely navigating 2km of downtown took 2 hours.

At one point, police stepped in to block traffic.

Strangers jumped in to help too.

He jokes: at @citizenlab we don't just help humans!

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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.

jsrailton, (edited ) to hacking
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BREAKING: private investigator arrested for cyberespionage on behalf of American PR firm.

Caught by UK under from 🇺🇸US while boarding a flight.

BIG TWIST in a wild case that began w/our @citizenlab investigation into indian hack-for-hire group

Sound familiar?

Because Amit Forlit is the second PI from arrested in similar way for this case.

First = convicted.

https://www.reuters.com/world/israeli-private-eye-arrested-uk-over-alleged-hacking-us-pr-firm-2024-05-02/

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I'd bet my bottom dollar that this "unnamed...PR and lobbying firm" knows exactly who they are...

...and are no doubt experiencing an afternoon of the purest panic.

Using the offshore hack-for-hire ecosystem has been largely consequence-free for the middlemen & the ultimate beneficiaries of stolen information.

The tide may be turning & this latest arrest suggests that more consequences may be inbound.

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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 #DarkBasin uncovered a sprawling #India-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/
#infosec #cybersecurity #malware #hacking #climatechange #climatecrisis #exxon #phishing

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Even for cancer and transplant patients.

We are speeding into idiocracy.

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 & is.

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

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Countdown Florida trying to pass a law absolving of responsibility for sudden death.

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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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jsrailton, to random
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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

jsrailton, to internet
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defending caving to pressure:

"But they threatened to block us"

Autocrats will read this as a playbook.

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Whenever I see
I wonder: anybody check that phone for etc. lately?

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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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Proven way to stop an autocrat?

Don't be a spoiler candidate like this guy.

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Sedition has consequences.

18 years of prison for Elmer Stewart Rhodes, Oath Keepers leader.

First sentence in the & cases

Story: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/25/us/politics/oath-keepers-stewart-rhodes-sentenced.html

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They just made it up.

The industry is a scourge.

Not content with tricking people into paying for security talismans by misrepresenting what VPNs do..., they are SEO-optimizing fake advice to drive signups.

The perverse thing is that the high risk people like dissidents & journalists that need to get safer from Predator not only won't be.helped, but real advice is getting drowned out.

Glad to see @maldr0id call it out.

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had Murdoch.

has .

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NSO Group sharing password tips is like a landmine manufacturer posting first aid advice for papecuts.

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