July 22, 2022

Good read. Judge Russian cyber on their own understanding of cyber, not on ours.

Gavin Wildе @gavinbwilde

Proud to share my first piece for @WarOnTheRocks, wherein I argue the need to factor for Moscow's expansive view of information war, while avoiding the outsize notions of causality and control that come with it.

warontherocks.comAssess Russia’s Cyber Performance Without Repeating Its Past Mistakes - War on the RocksMany observers saw Russia’s February invasion of Ukraine as the first case in modern history of a great power with near-peer cyber capability waging a

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Stilicho @StilichoReads

Rwandan president Paul Kagame had an alt account to attack his critics, which was exposed when he forgot to switch away from his main when responding.

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Cobie @cobie

Story for the ages

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Existential Comics @existentialcoms

The reason I know information is different from knowledge is that the internet has given everyone all the information in the world and it has only made us dumber.

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https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2022/07/21/predicting-consumers-choices-in-the-age-of-the-internet-ai-and-almost-perfect-tracking-some-things-change-the-key-challenges-do-not/

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Chris Greenway @ChrisGreenwayUK

Ukrainian radio hacked. Bayraktar & Melody (Melodiya) are among the 9 stations owned by TAVR, Ukraine's leading operator of music radio. Hijacking a live broadcast is the pinnacle of radio hacking. Zelensky later posted an Instagram video to reassure Ukrainians that he was well.

News from Ukraine @uasupport999

"Zelensky in intensive care" Russians hacked the radio "Bayraktar" and "Melody" and launched fake news about the health of the President of Ukraine saying that allegedly "the duties of the president are now performed by the head of BP Ruslan Stefanchuk." https://t.co/tL7eowTd9j

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Cobie @cobie

lol, sigh

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The Kyiv Independent @KyivIndependent

⚡️CNN: European countries have expelled over 400 Russian agents since Feb. 24. Richard Moore, head of MI6, the U.K.'s foreign intelligence service, told CNN’s Jim Sciutto at the Aspen Security Forum that Russia’s ability to spy in Europe has been cut in half.

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the telephone grid is scanned at a rate exceeding one million calls per minute for conversation suspected of being useful to the IRA. The moment a trigger word or phrase is uttered, the line is tapped and a detective put on the case. My Belfast friends keep correcting my perception of this snooping. They assure me it’s no big deal; they’ve learned not only how to adapt, but how to turn the system against itself. One phone call can send hundreds of troops on a wild goose chase, leaving an area unprotected for an IRA attack.

Great article on the IRA (from 1993.)

https://www.spin.com/2015/08/inside-the-ira-spins-1994-feature/

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cts @gf_256

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The goal: reforest 20k acres in 3 years

The result: burned down 35k acres in 2 months

Edward Ongweso Jr @bigblackjacobin

A company that once claimed it would use the blockchain to help reforest the Earth has accidentally set off a 35,000 acre wildfire in Spain. It's the second wild fire they've caused in a month.

vice.comCorporate Carbon Offset Company Accidentally Starts Devastating WildfireThis is the second forest fire started by Land Life in a month.

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Via Ollie, Chinese threat intelligence company analysis of a Russian group, and reporting on a multi year browser 0-day campaign. Significant IoCs released from across the previous years.

https://mp-weixin-qq-com.translate.goog/s/jX8D8d-4q46pKHS0AIVgjw?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp

https://mp-weixin-qq-com.translate.goog/s/3pawBe4_SL7vuLieHNgmCw?_x_tr_sl=zh-CN&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp

Bluepurple Pulse: week ending July 24th

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This is a great read.

Dan McKinley @mcfunley

I’ve been sitting on a weird epic ramble about Etsy homepages from the middle 2000’s for the better part of 15 years now so I figured I would write it up as a thread 1/

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https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/biases-the-wrong-model/

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[British recycle old arguments for borking encryption • The Register]

https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/22/british_encryption_scanning/