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Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypte...

Researchers pointed a satellite dish at the sky for 3 years and monitored what unencrypted data it picked up. The results were shocking: They obtained thousands of T-Mobile users' phone calls and texts, military and law enforcement secrets, much more: www.wired.com/story/satell... 🧵👇

Pentagon Asks Its Civilian Employees If They Want to Work for ICE The Department of Defense asks its civilian workers to apply for a "volunteer force" to support ICE that may involve working under "austere conditions.

NEW: The Department of Defense has asked its civilian employees if they want to work for ICE:

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Dark Wire Written “in the manner of a good crime thriller” (The Wall Street Journal), the inside story of the largest law-enforcement sting operation ever, in whic...

Thanks to those who just came to my #hope_16 talk, all about the different ways law enforcement are compromising entire encrypted chat platforms. Here is the book if you want to read much, much more www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/josep...

they're calling it history's most vindicated podcast

When I was on Silicon Valley, we didn’t think robot nazis would be here until at least 2030.

This is a new Murderbot short story, coming out later this week on Reactor Magazine. It’s about ART and its crew, set before Network Effect, and how ART finally decided to tell them about meeting a rogue SecUnit.

2025 Locus Awards Winners Locus Awards trophy. Art by Shaun Tan. The 2025 Locus Awards were announced June 21 in a ceremony during Locus Awards Weekend in Oakland, CA. SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL The Man Who Saw Seconds, Alexande…

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A black and white illustrated book cover. Style is a revolutionary poster depicting three diverse people raising their fists; a woman of color is raising her phone. Backdrop is a cityscape and circuit boards. Text reads: Mini Zine Digital Revolutionary by Violet Blue Resist Defy Surveillance Gear Up

Excerpt from the mini zine. The text won't all fit in here. It's the "phone prep" page with the main bulleted list reading: Going to any event means you'll be under surveillance. You might get your picture taken and shared, you might be in a video, and you'll certainly be under phone surveillance. Smartphones leak your information and leave a trail of your information by design. Secure your device Attach a wrist strap Sign out of apps you're not using Delete everything you can Download local maps Set up "find my phone" Use Airplane Mode when idle

New: Digital Revolutionary Mini Zine Vol 1! Secure your phone (or lock it remotely), move in crowds, take pics under stress, and more.

Here now www.digitapub.com/collections/... and here www.patreon.com/violetblue/s...

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The WIRED Guide to Protecting Yourself From Government Surveillance Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions and jail his enemies. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine. Here are some steps you can take to ev...

Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions and jail his enemies. It's already happening. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine. Here are some steps you can take to evade it.

A copy of the WicDiv compendium in a plastic bag sitting on a white cushion.

A copy of the WicDiv covers version book on a white cushion.

Wasn’t expecting my WicDiv compendium and covers version books to get here so close together but it all worked out. Thanks @kierongillen.bsky.social @mckelvie.bsky.social !

If you were not getting around to registering for the HOPE conference, this would be a really good time to do so.

@wesleychu.bsky.social Just saw your post, is the moving sale still going on?

Some sites like Crowdfense include price ranges for chains, not sure how accurate their prices are overall.

Saw this ad on a billboard in PA yesterday, as well.

Some DOGE Staffers Are Drawing Six-Figure Government Salaries Engineers and executives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency are drawing healthy taxpayer-funded salaries—sometimes from the very agencies they are cutting.

NEW SCOOP: Some staffers at Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency are drawing robust taxpayer-funded salaries from the federal agencies they are slashing and burning, WIRED has learned.

⬇️ Here's how much they're making:

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Picture of a gray rabbit scent marking a copy of Hack to the Future standing on end on a carpeted floor.

@hexadecim8.com sorry I missed you at the end of the con but I am enjoying the book so far!

Rob Fuller on LinkedIn: Come join the McKesson Red Team [Fully Remote - US/CA/IR] as a Lead… Come join the McKesson Red Team [Fully Remote - US/CA/IR] as a Lead Offensive Security Engineer - https://lnkd.in/ezWrEiy8

Job opening on my team for a Lead Red Team role: www.linkedin.com/posts/mubix_...

ShmooCon 2025 - YouTube You can reach me at https://twitter.com/Strong1Wind

Live streams from the last ShmooCon security conference, which took place last week, are available on YouTube

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StoryGraph chart showing reading stats for 2024. Mostly hovering around 3 books a month with a dip in August.

Missed my reading goal last year but overall not bad. The last 2 books of the year were the hardest for me so I didn’t get to read extra to try and catch up. Trying again this year for 40! 💙📚

Haha no worries, Shmoocon is definitely like that this year. I’ll try to find you around the con tomorrow!

Hey, that was me! Wasn’t sure if that came off rude asking about the book like that. I had seen you post about it but seeing it in person reminded me about it

#BookSky admin here! 💙📚🪐📚🌶️ There are a bunch of improvements and expansions I'd like to make to the BookSky ecosystem of feeds and I'm hoping to crowdfund some of the costs associated with upgrading and running these feeds.

If you've enjoyed BookSky, please consider chipping in (see comments!). ⬇️👇🏻⬇️

Finally finished Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell. Amazing story that takes a little time to build up and get going. Just started Haruki Murakami’s newest, wasn’t initially on my list but got a free copy from a Goodreads giveaway so moved it to the top 💙📚

Location Data Firm Offers to Help Cops Track Targets via Doctor Visits Fog Data Science is a location tracking company that takes data harvested from smartphones and makes it accessible to cops. A document obtained by 404 Media shows the company explicitly says it will u...

New from 404 Media: a location data firm is offering to help cops track targets via their doctor visits. Cops fill out form about their target, including doctor's address. Fog Data Science will then map out person's movements using massive bank of data www.404media.co/location-dat...

Is it new Unicode draft emoji day already?

In the wake of the 2024 election in the U.S., many people are concerned about their digital privacy. EFF has decades of experience in providing digital privacy and security resources. Here are the top ten resources that we think are most useful right now 🧵 (1/13)

Introduction to Investigative Journalism: Digital Security Digital security may seem a little daunting at first, but increased security will help investigative journalists build trust with — and protect — current and future sources.

I wrote a very timely introduction to digital security for journalists for @gijn.org, this guidance may also apply to activists, lawyers, and anyone else doing at-risk work these days. gijn.org/resource/int...

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HarperCollins Confirms It Has a Deal to Sell Authors' Work to AI Company The Big Five publisher made a deal with an unnamed “artificial intelligence technology company” and is allowing authors to opt-in if they want to join the agreement.

New: HarperCollins confirms that it has a deal in place to sell authors' work to an AI company. Won't say which. Will be opt-in

www.404media.co/harpercollin...