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A very large hardback edition, yes.

Every person involved in this decision needs to be hit over the head with a copy of Kashmir Hill's "Your Face Belongs to Us" until they come to their senses.

I'm also just gritting my teeth and letting my typos stay.

There was a big brain drain at the start of the war, but not everyone was able to get out.

Mem3nt0 mori – The Hacking Team is back! Kaspersky researchers discovered previously unidentified commercial Dante spyware developed by Memento Labs (formerly Hacking Team) and linked it to the ForumTroll APT attacks.

Hacking Team, now Memento Labs, is still at it. Operation Forum Troll targeted media outlets, universities, research centers, government organizations, financial institutions, and other organizations in Russia. securelist.com/forumtroll-a...

I'd be very interested in hear what Russian security researchers have to say about this.

I regret not buying a My Marxist Feminist Dialectic Brings All the Boys to the Yard poster because I have some free wall space next to my It's a Slow Apocalypse, You'll Work Through It poster.

a screenshot from The Record's story, which reads: Comer and Mace also focused on TeaOnHer's poor cybersecurity practices. In August, TechCrunch found a security vulnerability in TeaOnHer that let anyone access users' emails addresses, driver's licenses, selfies and locations. "If true, the Committee's concerns extend to the vulnerability of the images and information associated with the women and minors who did not provide consent to have their information uploaded to your application," the lawmakers wrote, citing the TechCrunch report.

a meme of a guy looking cross, with the headline: "Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made a Great Point"

House Republicans James Comer and Nancy Mace wrote a letter to TeaOnHer founder Xavier Lampkin demanding answers about the app's poor cybersecurity practices, citing my TechCrunch story earlier this year that found the app exposing users’ gov't-issued IDs and selfies. therecord.media/teaonher-app...

Trump says San Francisco ‘went wrong.’ Crime data shows otherwise. Homicides are their lowest since 1954, robberies since 1985, and smash-and-grabs are down by more than half since 2022.

Crime in San Francisco is at record lows: missionlocal.org/2025/10/trum...

Exploit development shop Trenchant, owned by L3Harris, lost a bunch of internal tools in a “damaging leak” recently. A former employee was targeted with spyware, he claims the company designated him as a scapegoat. This should be bigger news, imo. techcrunch.com/2025/10/21/a...

If you think that Signal is an op and totally backdoored, my recommendation is that you should plan all of your crimes over Telegram group chat.

SFILEN San Francisco Immigrant Legal & Education Network

If you live in San Francisco, today is a good day to familiarize yourself with the San Francisco Rapid Response Network, which has a 24-hour hotline for reporting ICE raids, actually verifies those raid reports, and does attorney activation: sfilen.org/resources/sf...

How ICE Spies On WhatsApp ICE’s HSI division gets contacts from the WhatsApp account of a fake ID dealer and has little trouble identifying them, according to warrant.

The primary advantage of using Signal over WhatsApp is that Signal does not store metadata. Just sayin'.

www.forbes.com/sites/the-wi...

I hope this was a fluke because that was absolutely insane.

Every bus heading down Market street was packed solid for an hour.

Attempted to take public transit out of downtown San Francisco at rush hour. I regret to report that RTO is in full force, so I guess downtown is back, baby?

Started to end a meeting with "It's ok, I'm good..." stopped myself and got too real: "Don't worry. I'm beyond help."

Column | ChatGPT just came out with its own web browser. Use it with caution. OpenAI’s Atlas promises AI-powered convenience. The price? Letting ChatGPT track and store “memories” of what you do online.

ChatGPT’s new Atlas browser doesn’t just see what you read — it remembers it.

@eff.org’s Lena Cohen showed me it even logged “memories” of her looking for *abortion care* and her doctor’s name. Out-surveils even Chrome.

My @washingtonpost.com column: wapo.st/49bOcVC

Erin Kissane says a bunch of smart stuff about the state of play in the open networks/social media space, which I recommend reading.

‘I was the demolition man’: Ring founder reflects on how he almost destroyed the company Ding Dong!

Every quote in this story from the founder of Ring, Jamie Siminoff has been designed in a lab to illustrate the single most wrongheaded approach to technology, surveillance, privacy, and crime: www.theverge.com/tech/804052/...

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If you don't already follow Ian, you are in for a treat.

For those of you who are wondering, the most important opsec lesson to take from the First Wap story is that if your threat model includes a government, do not take your cell phone with you to locations or meetings you don't want them to know about.

"I know a guy who does this completely impractical opsec thing, so it's totally doable" is the "let me share this totally true story of a thing that happened to a friend of my cousin" of opsec discussions.

If I recall correctly, this is not the first time we've seen voluntary cooperation from a telco like this.

I'm not the person claiming that this is an effective mitigation, so no.

If this is not a thing you have done yourself, I don't think you are adding anything useful here.

You should do that and tell me how it works out for you.

I am extremely cool and normal and up to date on popular culture.

A young reporter discovers a mysterious trove of data that exposes a global surveillance empire. In a major investigation, a young reporter uncovers a powerful technology used to spy on thousands of people across the world.

People are very lucky that I do not write the headlines for these stories because there is no way I could write a headline for a story about a surveillance company called First Wap without turning it into a Megan Thee Stallion joke: revealnews.org/podcast/cell...