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Michael Loadenthal

@mloadenthal.bsky.social

Professor, researcher, consultant, trainer. Political violence, social movements, OSINT, (cyber)security, tech & law. Director @ prosecutionproject.bsky.social & peacejusticestudies.org β’Ά/β“‹dad x 4+🐢🐢 https://michaelloadenthal.academia.edu

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WhoFi quietly turns Wi-Fi into a surveillance tool that sees through walls and remembers your movements The tech uses existing Wi‑Fi networks to sense human presence and movement

β€œResearchers…have created WhoFi, a system which claims to be able to identify individuals by analyzing Wi‑Fi signals…The system tracks people by interpreting how their presence disrupts Wi‑Fi patterns, offering a potential alternative to conventional biometric methods.”

02.08.2025 18:25 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Police raid anti-fascist youth camp in Austria - Freedom News Solidarity groups and Slovenian government calling for investigation of the provocative operation at resistance memorial site ~ Joseph King ~ On Sunday 27 July, Austrian police raided an anti-fascist ...

freedomnews.org.uk/2025/07/31/p...

01.08.2025 08:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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El Salvador approves indefinite presidential reelection, extends presidential terms El Salvador President Nayib Bukele's party approved constitutional changes in the country's National Assembly that allow indefinite presidential reelection and extend presidential terms to six years.

Cool. Cool. Cool.

Nothing to see here folks. Just another symptom of the modern era.

www.npr.org/2025/07/31/n...

01.08.2025 08:03 β€” πŸ‘ 36    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 4
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Exclusive: Google is indexing ChatGPT conversations, potentially exposing sensitive user data Thousands of shared ChatGPT chats are now appearing in Google search results.

www.fastcompany.com/91376687/goo...

01.08.2025 07:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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How Surveillance Tech is Being Used to ID and Charge Portland Protesters Surveillance technology is helping criminalize resistance. On July 24, a criminal complaint was filed in federal court. Less than 24 hours later, FBI agents raided the defendant’s home in Portland, O...

www.wewillfree.us/how-surveill...

01.08.2025 07:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Spotify Is Forcing Users to Undergo Face Scanning to Access Explicit Content Submit to biometric face scanning or risk your account being deleted, Spotify says, following the enactment of the UK's Online Safety Act.

As if we needed another example of the (absolutely-fucking-intentionally) slippery slope of β€˜needing to protect kids from explicit content’ internet surveillance Trojan horse…

www.404media.co/spotify-uk-a...

30.07.2025 19:27 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Digital Security & Doxxing Prevention Checklist β€” Interrupting Criminalization A checklist for people concerned about digital security and doxxing, whether you are a journalist or someone whose name or face appears in media or social media, compiled by Interrupting Criminalizati...

We put together a Digital Security and Doxxing Prevention Checklist for journalists and media makers concerned about digital security for themselves as well as for sources and collaborators who may be at risk. Available in Spanish as well: www.interruptingcriminalization.com/resources-al...

21.07.2025 21:57 β€” πŸ‘ 162    πŸ” 82    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 3
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Police unit in England to monitor online signs of anti-migrant disorder Intelligence team could track social media and flag early signs of civil unrest in response to renewed demonstrations

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

28.07.2025 07:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Age-Checked Internet Has Arrived Starting today, UK adults will have to prove their age to access porn online. Experts warn that a global wave of age-check laws threatens to chill speech and ultimately harm children and adults alike.

www.wired.com/story/the-ag...

26.07.2025 20:51 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Ohio Republicans pass pornography age verification ID law as part of state budget β€’ Ohio Capital Journal Ohioans will need to submit their photo ID to watch pornography beginning this fall, with explicit content giant PornHub likely to consider pulling out of providing content to the state.

For example…

ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/07/16/o...

26.07.2025 20:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

These efforts are bad and should be fought tooth and nail. Let me say it loud for the folks in the back, this is never (and never has been) about porn or kids. It’s about controlling access and normalizing surveillance. Fight these efforts everywhere you see them…and they’re happening all over.

26.07.2025 20:48 β€” πŸ‘ 152    πŸ” 38    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 3
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ICE Prosecutor in Dallas Runs White Supremacist X Account The Observer has identified the operator of β€œGlomarResponder,” an overtly racist social media account, as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

19.02.2025 22:04 β€” πŸ‘ 32646    πŸ” 15352    πŸ’¬ 1144    πŸ“Œ 1894
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New app that notifies users of nearby ICE activity launches nationwide A new app that allows users to notify others of nearby immigration enforcement activity has just been launched nationwide.

β€œCoqui is a free, anonymous app that its creators say was made by and for immigrant communities [to alert them of ICE activity]…Safety features include app encryption, masking of its users’ locations, and anti-trolling protocols. In addition, no personal data is collected from its users either.”

26.07.2025 20:43 β€” πŸ‘ 56    πŸ” 34    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 1
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OPSEC is a spectrum

When talking about OPSEC, sometimes we see people talking about how to be impervious to the feds or infiltrators. Here’s the hard truth. You can’t. All organizing (or at least effective organizing) will involve some kind of risk.

24.07.2025 00:30 β€” πŸ‘ 167    πŸ” 45    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2
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Using Signal groups for activism Things are heating up. Millions of people are taking to the streets against Trump's rising authoritarianism. Communities around the US are organizing to defend against ICE raids, to protest Israeli ge...

Sharing this again because it’s great and times are dark!

micahflee.com/using-signal...

20.07.2025 07:33 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Record DDoS pummels site with once-unimaginable 7.3Tbps of junk traffic Attacker rained down the equivalent of 9,300 full-length HD movies in just 45 seconds.

Apparently, the largest ever DDoS attack happened last week.

"...attackers 'carpet bombed' an average of nearly 22,000 destination ports of a single IP address belonging to the target...34,500 ports were targeted, indicating the thoroughness and well-engineered nature of the attack."

15.07.2025 22:53 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Berlin, Germany: Claim for arson attack on Micro Resist Technology company, which specializes in the production of microchips – Dark Nights

β€œAlmost all relevant technologies can be traced back to military research and development in order to gain advantages on the battlefield. Not only against hostile nations, but also in the social war against the exploited, superfluous and precarious of the population…”

15.07.2025 22:40 β€” πŸ‘ 49    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Anti cop sticker

Anti cop sticker

Anti nazi sticker

Anti nazi sticker

Anti catcall sticker

Anti catcall sticker

Fuck the police sticker

Fuck the police sticker

12.07.2025 18:30 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Anti nazi discourse

Anti nazi discourse

Fuck afd

Fuck afd

Fucks nazis sticker

Fucks nazis sticker

Anti nazi sticker

Anti nazi sticker

12.07.2025 18:30 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Fuck nazis

Fuck nazis

We are all antifa

We are all antifa

Smash fascism

Smash fascism

Free all antifa

Free all antifa

The anti-fascist street politic in Munich is on point.

12.07.2025 18:30 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I’m sorry, what?!

11.07.2025 23:13 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump Speaks Out After Using Term Considered as Antisemitic "You view it differently than me. I’ve never heard that,” Trump said.

Ummmm...you didn't know Shylock was an antisemitic term? Seriously?

Time to get to reading sir: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shylock...

time.com/7300208/trum...

06.07.2025 14:57 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Revealed: the far-right, antisemitic men’s club network spreading across US Old Glory Club has at least 26 chapters with participants including military personnel, lawyers and civil servants

New from me: details on the sold Glory Club, which has set up at least 26 lodges across 20 states, and whose members include antisemitic podcasters, a national guardsman, and a defense contractor with secret clearance www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

05.07.2025 17:07 β€” πŸ‘ 462    πŸ” 306    πŸ’¬ 38    πŸ“Œ 37
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Exclusive: Data breach reveals Catwatchful 'stalkerware' is spying on thousands of phones The spyware operation's exposed customer email addresses and passwords were shared with data breach notification service Have I Been Pwned.

techcrunch.com/2025/07/02/d...

02.07.2025 14:11 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Homeland Security Secretary Noem says CNN may be prosecuted over report on migration app U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said on Tuesday that she is working with the Justice Department to see if CNN can be prosecuted for reporting on a phone app that alerts users to sightings of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in their area.

www.reuters.com/business/med...

01.07.2025 23:02 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
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Out-of-state cops had access to Denver license plate data for immigration cases for months The city shut down national access to its database in April.

denverite.com/2025/07/01/d...

01.07.2025 13:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Terror propagandist 'Dark Foreigner' should get 14 years for 'vile' crimes, Crown argues | CBC News Everyone agrees, even the defence. For inciting hate, fear and division by calling for violence against Jews withΒ terrorist propaganda images and videos he helped make, Patrick Gordon MacDonald is goi...

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

01.07.2025 01:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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The US Is Storing Migrant Children’s DNA in a Criminal Database Customs and Border Protection has swabbed the DNA of migrant children as young as 4, whose genetic data is uploaded to an FBI-run database that can track them if they commit crimes in the future.

www.wired.com/story/cbp-dn...

29.06.2025 17:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Knowledge Base - IT Help

Decent counter-doxxing guide from Harvard

harvard.service-now.com/ithelp?id=kb...

29.06.2025 17:16 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Bluetooth flaws could let hackers spy through your microphone Vulnerabilities affecting a Bluetooth chipset present in more than two dozen audio devices from ten vendors can be exploited for eavesdropping or stealing sensitive information.

www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...

β€œVulnerabilities affecting a Bluetooth chipset present in more than two dozen audio devices from ten vendors can be exploited for eavesdropping or stealing sensitive information.”

29.06.2025 17:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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