Jesse Yarbrough

Opinion | Yes, a violent gang of young men has taken our nation hostage. The name of that gang is DOGE.

In case you haven’t seen it or are curious about where we are on the project 2025 timeline: www.project2025.observer

What does MAGA stand for? Wrong answers only.
Make Arrests Great Again (as in arresting those trying to subvert democracy)
Mediocre And Gullible Americans
Musks Atrocious Governance Ambitions

Where does having unelected billionaires shutting down government agencies while calling for the impeachment of federal judges ruling against him fall on the spectrum?

Those who have spent any time here know what a truly special place it is.

💡There are a lot of fairly easy steps to improve your privacy. While too in-depth for a single post, a good start would be to:
Review your application permissions.
Delete unused applications.
Disable the advertising ID on your device.
Disable WiFi and Bluetooth when not in use.

⁉️This is possible because of the app permissions. Many apps contain SDKs that inherit the permissions of the app itself. If you give permission for a weather app to access your location, and the app contains an SDK from Gravy, they also get your data. Some apps simply sell your location data.

🗺️ The X thread shows how the data can be used, relatively easily, to identify and track people. The dataset contains location data around military sites, the White House, etc.

📊French security researcher Baptiste Robert just demonstrated the capabilities of even the sample data on X. He notes that if the 1.4GB sample contains >30 million locations, the entire 17TB could include as many >217 BILLION locations.

☑️ On January 5, a cyber threat actor known as Nightly released a 1.4GB sample of the 17TB of data exfiltrated. The breached data includes the Gravy’s entire customer database, credentials for the company’s AWS infrastructure, historical tracking data spanning years on TENS OF MILLIONS of people.

💻 Gravy Analytics and its subsidiary Venntel are mobile location data providers. The FTC took action against them in late December for selling sensitive location data. The companies also sell location data to law enforcement and intelligence agencies.

Let’s talk about a story that has been largely drowned out by the Meta decision but has massive privacy and national security implications: the Gravy Analytics breach.

I’m sure that there were space lasers involved as well. If only the democrats that control the weather machine would generate rain over the area.

From the article, “Bid requests containing more personal data attract higher bids, so websites and apps are financially motivated to harvest as much of your data as possible.”

1. There is no way this guy isn’t wearing white new balances.
2. He definitely clips his cell phone to his belt.
3. His lawn is impeccably mowed.
4. He’s definitely seen every Steven Seagal movie.

This spineless shit had the ability to hold people responsible and accountable, but chose partisanship and profit over ethics, morality, and democracy.

He is a stain and a disgrace and should be remembered as such.

Mitch McConnell: ‘We’re in a very, very dangerous world right now’ The Republican Senator on his plans to spend the last two years of his term fighting back against an increasingly isolationist GOP

Mitch McConnell: “We’re in a very, very dangerous world right now, reminiscent of before world war two,” he says. “Even the slogan is the same. ‘America First.’ That was what they said in the ’30s.”

If you’re not concerned, you’re not paying attention.

CFPB Proposes Rule to Stop Data Brokers from Selling Sensitive Personal Data to Scammers, Stalkers, and Spies | Consumer Financial Protection Bureau The CFPB today proposed a rule to rein in data brokers that sell Americans' sensitive personal and financial information.

CFPB - www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/new...

FTC Takes Action Against Mobilewalla for Collecting and Selling Sensitive Location Data The Federal Trade Commission will prohibit data broker Mobilewalla, Inc.

Mobilewalla - www.ftc.gov/news-events/...

FTC Takes Action Against Gravy Analytics, Venntel for Unlawfully Selling Location Data Tracking Consumers to Sensitive Sites The Federal Trade Commission is taking action against Gravy Analytics Inc. and its subsidiary Venntel Inc.

Gravy/Venntel - www.ftc.gov/news-events/...

The FTC and CFPB just made MAJOR announcements. FTC is taking action on Gravy Analytics/Venntel and Mobilewalla for selling location data. CFPB proposed rule changes to protect sensitive information. Links below:

My daughter asked if her elf on the shelf reported her behavior to Santa.

I imagined explaining how the tablet and apps she uses & nearly everything else in her life are cogs in the surveillance capitalism complex.

But she's five, so I just said, "Yeah. Plus, he calls Mommy and I."

Compare that with @bsky.app for a shocking difference.

Threads, the Meta app tracks the following data points. Why does a social media account need financial info, browsing info, search history, and "sensitive info?"

Bottom Line Up Front (BLUF): Apps you likely use daily collect and sell shocking amounts of data on you. This data can be purchased for pennies on the dollar and used against you. Data collection isn't a threat... until it is.
Expand the images below to see what different apps collect.

The network technology giant Cisco offers to turn Wi-Fi access points installed in offices and other buildings into a system that tracks the location of employees, customers, smartphones, laptops and other devices for a wide range of purposes #workersurveillance

I took a deep dive ⬇️ [thread]

There are some great resources at inteltechniques.com. His books are great and the free magazine articles are also valuable. It’s an OSINT site, but good OPSEC and infosec starts with using OSINT techniques against yourself. I’m writing a whole thesis that somewhat relates to this.

Not being familiar with the specifics of the case, do you think they’ll be broad or narrow?

Does anyone else seriously reconsider going into a store if an organization is soliciting people at the doors?

I’m here for Tylenol and an energy drink, I don’t give a shit about your quest to make deep sea internet cables organically sourced and non-toxic for sharks to eat.