New: WhatsApp unveils a higher security offering, becoming the latest tech firm to provide users with opt-in stronger protections against hackers www.reuters.com/business/med...

WhatsApp unveils high-security mode, latest tech firm to offer users stronger protection

Meta's WhatsApp messaging service is offering users an advanced security mode, joining a growing number of U.S. tech firms that are letting users opt into stronger protections against hackers in excha...

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How is this legal?

Looking for book, blog or article recommendations on the morals & ethics of offensive cyber particularly in the context of Private Sector Offensive Actors (PSOAs)

Looking for book, blog or article recommendations on the morals & ethics of offensive cyber particularly in the context of Private Sector Offensive Actors (PSOAs)

Apropos the UK Strategic Defence Review (SDR) being released today, reminded of Lin Wells April 2001 memo on defence forecasting library.rumsfeld.com/doclib/sp/23...

Genuinely impressive how consistently inconsistent Scotrail is

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Ghostty

Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration.

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US judge finds Israel's NSO Group liable for hacking in WhatsApp lawsuit www.reuters.com/technology/c...

US judge finds Israel's NSO Group liable for hacking in WhatsApp lawsuit

A U.S. judge ruled on Friday in favor of Meta Platform Inc's WhatsApp in a lawsuit accusing Israel's NSO Group of exploiting a bug in the WhatsApp messaging app to install spy software allowing the surveillance of 1,400 people, including journalists, human rights activists and dissidents.

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I don’t know who needs to hear it but defaults write com.google.Chrome URLBlocklist -array-add example.com works system-wide without giving access to all your browsing to some extension.

Quote this and share one of your favourite poems

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Quote this and share one of your favorite poems

The early morning train from Kyiv.

West coast mainline to London and about 70% of the time you dini have the signal to even connect to WhatsApp, how is UK infrastructure still so bad

Just a reminder, as you look outside and notice it's already getting dark 😱, that today is the earliest sunset of the year (15:51 in London). From tomorrow the sunsets slowwwwly start getting later again. (Sunrises don't start getting earlier until Dec 30th hence solstice on 21st.) YOU ARE WELCOME.

Absolutely shocking lack of bins in London

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Assad made a hell of Homs, and my friend Marie Colvin his target

As the Syrian conflict reignites, the photographer remembers 2012 and events in the opposition stronghold when he was injured and the Sunday Times journalist was killed

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Crazy that Austin Tice is reportedly alive after 12 years captive in Syria

One of the things I’ve no seen discussed about Pete Hegseth’s nomination, aside from everything else, is how grotesque it is for him to accept the nomination knowing how unqualified he is to be SECDEF

Did you know that you’re not required to give tech billionaires permanent access to your data? Claw back your data from big tech, starting with X. Start deleting all your tweets today for free cyd.social/delete-all-y...

Delete all your tweets for free with Cyd

Cyd is a new app that helps you claw back control of your data from tech platforms, starting with X.

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It should be spelled CiA because I spy with my little i.

Absolute throwback to see @minalami.bsky.social on prime time BBC News talking about Syria

If you are in the Edinburgh area and want to see a #cybersecurity talk, come and see my talk at the local Defcon chapter on "Konarr: A Story of Building a Software Composition Analysis Platform". Its on the tool Konarr I built and open sourced. github.com/42ByteLabs/k...

GitHub - 42ByteLabs/konarr: Konarr

Konarr. Contribute to 42ByteLabs/konarr development by creating an account on GitHub.

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"Crosland [had] already been in the service for more than 20 years...he had formally retired as Director of Personnel and Administration..., only to be rehired... to move the service ... to a high-profile building on the southern bank of the Thames". www.thetimes.com/uk/obituarie...

Philip Crosland obituary: Official behind MI6 move

Senior SIS man who was the driving force behind switch to its Vauxhall Cross HQ in 1994

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A hypothesis I've been toying with is that privately organized active measures - aimed at winning elections, eliminating business rivals, swinging lawsuits, etc - are far more common than is popularly understood.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/a-reporter-at-large/the-titan-submersible-was-an-accident-waiting-to-happen

The Titan Submersible Was “An Accident Waiting to Happen”

Interviews and e-mails with expedition leaders and employees reveal how OceanGate ignored desperate warnings from inside and outside the company. “It’s a lemon,” one wrote.

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In case you are shunning the birdsite, you need to watch this video of Meredith Whitaker of @signal.bsky.social dissecting the online safety bill in front of one of its MP adherents: https://www.channel4.com/news/online-safety-bill-debate-could-it-lead-to-unprecedented-paradigm-shifting-surveillance

Online Safety Bill debate: Could it lead to ‘unprecedented paradigm-shifting surveillance’?

Big tech is being taken to task by lawmakers across the world.

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“Widely held” beliefs that 0day acquisition is solely the competence of state level offensive cyber programs are ahistorical & incorrect, if not a straw man affectation. Commercial intel reporting was tracking portfolio sales in continuing ecrime enterprise since at least ‘07

I’m not sure if I’ve posted one of my own features here yet and it feels sort of strange that this is the one, but….I wrote a profile of RFK jr. and his presidential campaign.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Inside Job

How a conspiracy-spewing literal Kennedy posing as a populist outsider jolted the Democratic Party.

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