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Data breach hunter. Director of Cyber Risk Research at UpGuard (tweets not representative of employer).

Santa Rosa, CA
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Jun 15

    As cited by the Snopes article, Brad Parscale (Trump digital campaign manager) admitted to Bloomberg, in Oct. 2016, that “We have three major voter suppression operations under way”. As well as claiming that targeted "dark posts" were used as part of those operations.

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  2. Dec 29

    Three important things: 1. Anything which takes input can be exploited. 2. Observation is the solicitation of input. 3. The Panopticon is real.

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  3. Retweeted
    Dec 28

    RECAP: Tamas Cser, tech guy behind United in Purpose, has/had access to: - 191+ million US voter records - "Anonymous" confessions of women, including military wives - 30k psych profiles of "key employees" of European companies - Sister in Budapest and her colleague in Moscow /1

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  4. Retweeted
    Dec 27

    This is unbelievable (if true). Facebook and Russian government controlled Yandex have a joint venture to share information. That means the Russian government could find out nearly anything about a Facebook user. Thank God I never used Facebook

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  5. Retweeted
    Dec 27

    Despite all the negative publicity associated with fake Russian accounts in 2016, Facebook decided it would be a great idea to give its user data to Yandex, Russia’s premier search engine. As a result, the FSB now has access to all of it.

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  6. Dec 26

    "[...] a full half of YouTube traffic was “bots masquerading as people,” a portion so high that employees feared an inflection point after which YouTube’s systems for detecting fraudulent traffic would begin to regard bot traffic as real and human traffic as fake."

    The numbers are all fking fake, the metrics are bullshit, the agencies responsible for enforcing good practices are knowing bullshiters enforcing and profiting off all the fake numbers and none of the models make sense at scale of actual human users.
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  7. Retweeted
    Dec 26

    's state TV repeatedly asserts: "We are at war with the United States." On a state TV show by 'Channel One,' Russian MP Andrey Svintsov reiterates this common POV: "We are at war. We may not be using conventional weapons, but we are using intellectual and info-weapons."

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  8. Dec 26

    This is disturbing. In one section the article highlights dangers of adversaries having a travel data monopoly. I concur, and there is a seemingly heightened interest in travel-related platforms and travel data in the sprawling networks related to the Cambridge Analytica bunch.

    A counterintelligence nightmare is in the making as Facebook aligns with Russia search engine, Yandex. via
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  9. Dec 26

    It may be worth pointing out that individual-level ad microtargeting is being aimed at sitting jurors on politically-sensitive matters. I say this because advertisers are aiming it at everyone. Everyone includes sitting jurors. There's a semblance of jury tampering here.

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  10. Retweeted
    Dec 22

    Step 1: don't buy one

    How to Prevent Your Alexa Device From Recording Your Private Conversations—
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  11. Retweeted
    Dec 23

    THREAD - PART II: The "Cambridge Analytica" of the Christian Right is United in Purpose (data firm = Pioneer). NEW: Tech guy behind this, Tamas Cser, also does tech for his sister's "survey" firm in Budapest. This firm partners w/ a woman in Moscow who's worked w/ ROSNEFT. /1

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  12. Dec 20

    Against the advice of top, experienced, US military leaders the President of the United States is forcefully carrying out openly stated wills of an adversarial nation’s tyrannical leader.

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  13. Retweeted
    Dec 20

    JUST IN: The US military has been ordered to withdraw about half the troops in Afghanistan

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  14. Retweeted
    Dec 20

    Mattis in 2014 on resigning in protest: "the most dire circumstances, where the message you have to send can be sent no other way," noting it wasn't an option for subordinates: "The lance corporals can’t retire. They’re going. That’s all there is to it.”

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  15. Dec 20

    “misrepresentations of material fact” sums it up nicely.

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  16. Dec 20

    And this is the DC Attorney General talking here. (attached image is from the recent filing)

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  17. Retweeted
    Dec 20

    There are several zingers in the DC AG lawsuit against Facebook for Cambridge Analytica but #34 is a knockout. Bring. It. On.

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  18. Dec 20

    Here's the question: Given the situation, am I stuck with Github's decision to hide the preservation account from public view? Does anyone have experience appealing this designation? Github is, most likely unknowingly, censoring a resource that could help many investigations.

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  19. Dec 20

    That international-investigation-relevant account has been flagged by Github and been made "hidden" from public view. Their reason is that I have a 2nd Github account (tied to my employment [which I believe should remain separate]) and Github only allows one account per person.

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  20. Dec 20

    Question for community: I have a Github account with many cloned Cambridge Analytica / AggregateIQ / SCL / etc relevant repositories (none of which include the AIQ Git*L*ab repo data). The intent is to preserve GH repos which are/were published publicly by the originators.

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  21. Retweeted
    Dec 20

    Researchers: please stop using the term "responsible disclosure" and use "coordinated disclosure" instead. "Responsible" implies those who don't follow the process are irresponsible ad gives vendors leverage to hurt our own. It's not helping...

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