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Pretty big story here from Chris Bing. Deep dive on Indian hackers who do hands on keyboard work for filthy lucre. Lawyers involved in legal disputes in the US have been hiring Indian hackers to phish opposition lawyers and clients and steal documents.
Reuters got their hands on almost a decade of email spools from the hacker’s attack accounts. Analysis reviews some completely wild numbers, like 80k emails sent to 13k targets, or targeting 1000 lawyers in 108 law firms. Spray and pray.
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-hackers-litigation/
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Apparently “Fountain” by Duchamp was created by a female artist. He says in a letter that she sent it to him. This is quite remarkable.
https://culturacolectiva.com/art/duchamp-stolen-fountain/
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Friend: “Designated hacker? Feels a bit like the person who chooses to be a bard in Dungeons & Dragons.”
https://carryingthegun.com/2022/06/29/should-platoons-have-a-designated-hacker-assigned/
From this summary it seems like I have to listen to the podcast.
https://mwi.usma.edu/digital-irregular-warfare-cyber-at-the-tactical-level/
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Well, that is portentous. Robotaxis in San Fransciso malfunctioned and converged on and blocked a street.
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Another Rude Awakening - Making Sense of Russia's War Against Ukraine
https://www.foi.se/en/foi/reports/report-summary.html?reportNo=FOI-R--5332--SE
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I am very uncertain about the value of this work. The part where they use it to show police bias in solving crimes, where crimes in poor neighbourhoods result in fewer arrests than in wealthy neighbourhoods — sure, great to have data for that (we already had it), but without the political will to do anything what good is it?
I’m curious about a number of things, for example predicting murders in Chicago a week in advance during 2017 is not a particularly hard feat. There are patterns of violence which create clusters of murders in time and space. These murders aren’t events that could be stopped by increased police presence for that week, because the social dynamics of what is causing the violence isn’t being addressed.
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