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Journalist - cybersecurity/national security. Author of COUNTDOWN TO ZERO DAY: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon. Speaker. Signal user

San Francisco
Joined June 2009

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    30 Sep 2018

    I’ve been writing about election security for more than a decade, but this is probably the most important story I’ve written about it to date

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  2. 10 hours ago

    I'm heartened, however, by the reader comments to the piece, which are gold.

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  3. 10 hours ago

    And then there's this comment when her daughter specifically asks her to take the content down and stop writing about her, and she says no: "I’m not done exploring my motherhood in my writing. And sometimes my stories will be inextricably linked to her experiences."

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  4. 10 hours ago

    And this line from her essay: "I remember thinking that one day I would have to answer for my work." The idea that the thought occurred to her but she dismissed it and continued to write about her daughter suggests the need for writing fodder trumped her concern for her daughter.

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  5. 10 hours ago

    Regarding mother who wrote in WaPo about her 4th-grade daughter's anger at finding essays/pics her mother wrote about her online - how in world did the mother never mention to daughter before that she was writing about her? Seems like this would naturally come up in dinner conv.

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  6. Retweeted

    Terrible essay violating children's rights (won't link). Fourth grader discovers her mom has been writing about her for years (with pics) and begs her to take them down. Instead, mom writes about that and *links* to an invasive one. We need a children's bill of digital rights.

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  7. Retweeted
    14 hours ago
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    if 23&me was ever compromised, an attacker would gain the following information: DNA, physical address, mailing address, birth date, family history, email address, portal creds, IP address, name, DNA reports - combine that with Marriott and OPM

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  8. 14 hours ago

    No surprise here. I'm amazed by the really smart people I know who uploaded their DNA to 23&Me thinking it would never be used for any purpose other than the one they intended. Here's a good example of why you shouldn't.

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  9. Retweeted

    “We need to send someone to carry out an extremely sensitive and risky operation in one of the world’s most challenging counterintelligence environments” “Get me the one guy who couldn’t make money disappear in OIF-era Iraq without getting caught”

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  10. 18 hours ago

    Good question. When credit cards get stolen, the banks push the cost of re-issuing customer cards onto the company that got breached and the PCI (Visa/Mastercard) also fine breached party. What happens when it's a country that has to re-issue thousands of documents due to breach?

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  11. Retweeted
    18 hours ago
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    we don't have the filibuster concept, but the closest word would probably be "Geiselhaft" (literally meaning: "hostage arrest"). In the German language this can be applied to people as well as countries or items, e.g "ein Land in Geiselhaft" (County being taken hostage)

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  12. 19 hours ago

    Is there a German (or Russian word) for when you filibuster an entire country?

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  13. Retweeted
    21 hours ago

    Ah, that feeling when a coding error reveals that, yes, is taking secret photos of you. If you look closely you will see a photo of me, taken by my work phone, as I fiddled with our Instagram feed. That is not a photo I took. Instagram, u creepy

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  14. 19 hours ago

    Maybe I missed it but did Twitter decide why all four men were holding their hands the same way - with left hand holding their right? I'm right-handed and would have held my left with my right hand. Are all four of these guys lefties? Or is this a secret Border Patrol handhold?

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  15. 21 hours ago

    Should not encrypting passport numbers qualify as criminal negligence in an age when massive breaches are common?

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  16. 22 hours ago

    Guidelines like this are long overdue so it will be interesting to see what they include, if anything, about protecting sources in the age of metadata

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  17. Retweeted
    22 hours ago

    The WSJ editorial board on Trump's comments that the Soviets were right to invade Afghanistan in 1979: "We cannot recall a more absurd misstatement of history by an American President"

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  18. Retweeted

    One of the most interesting things happening right now is the discussion over what aspects of this journalists should cover, and how to report without exposing the hacked personal details of German politicians any further. It’s a discussion we are long overdue in the US.

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  19. Jan 3

    This is the kind of thing people like and have been warning could also happen to NSA/US gov hackers in response to DoJ indicting foreign officials for their gov hacking ops. That's not to say US shouldn't indict, but this is how foreign govs may respond

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    This image just appeared on Trump's official instagram account.

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  21. Jan 3

    A delightful lesson on copyright and fair use woven around that newly unearthed dance video everyone is talking about that features our new federal lawmaker Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez aka

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