@mloadenthal.bsky.social
Professor, researcher, consultant, trainer. Political violence, social movements, OSINT, (cyber)security, tech & law. Director @ prosecutionproject.bsky.social & peacejusticestudies.org Ⓐ/Ⓥdad x 4+🐶🐶 https://michaelloadenthal.academia.edu
As a student of discourse…wow. Just wow.
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A highly sophisticated set of iPhone hijacking techniques has likely infected tens of thousands of phones or more. Clues suggest it was originally built for the US government.
08.03.2026 23:05 — 👍 243 🔁 140 💬 8 📌 12
Two white nationalists I exposed in a recent article showed up to try to intimidate me in person last night.
This is a press freedom issue.
Here’s what happened:
🧵 Today’s news: Proton turned over payment info for a Stop Cop City account. Not good — it's state repression in action.
Controversial opinion: We don't think this means all activists should abandon Proton for docs/email.
It depends on your threat model. Let's explore.
(Long thread incoming 👇)
Never confuse security with anonymity.
Encryption does NOT make a user invisible, only opaque.
“Privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail provided Swiss authorities with payment data that the FBI then used to determine who was allegedly behind an anonymous account affiliated with…Stop Cop City”
Security researchers have revealed that signals from tire pressure monitoring systems (TPMSs), required in U.S. cars since 2007, can be used to track vehicles from 40-50 meters away using devices costing $100.
TPMSs send a unique sensor identifier that never changes during the lifetime of the tire.
JUST IN: A federal judge has barred Gov DeSantis from designating CAIR as a terrorist organization and punish those who associate with the group.
“Once again, Florida chooses political posturing over the First Amendment,” Judge Walker writes.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
I just threw together a website visualizing this ICE contract data! You can browse through the companies and their contracts, and filter them by state micahflee.github.io/ice-contracts/
01.03.2026 20:46 — 👍 757 🔁 497 💬 25 📌 18This tracked with my understanding of this as a non-problem.
16.02.2026 03:32 — 👍 13 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
“They took my cell phone and cloned it. They actually told me they did that.”
15.02.2026 01:24 — 👍 319 🔁 210 💬 5 📌 20KMBC: "A woman tried to set a fire at a South Kansas City warehouse that had been rumored as a possible ICE detention center. Earlier today, the company that owns the property confirmed it is no longer moving forward with a sale to the U.S. government."
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Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash
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“A state-sponsored threat group has compromised dozens of networks of government and critical infrastructure entities in 37 countries in global-scale operations dubbed 'Shadow Campaigns'.”
08.02.2026 04:25 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Seems like the discourse has breached containment of its popping off in pro wrestling events…no?
05.02.2026 22:56 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
🌱🌱🌱🌱 New checklist: ICE Watch Digital security. For anyone working to hold ICE accountable through filming, foot patrols, adopt-a-corner, or rapid response.
→ activistchecklist.org/ice
Designed with a lot of feedback from folks on the frontlines (Minneapolis and elsewhere).
