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— privacy, data, surveillance. Often running. Tweets deleted after 30 days. DMs open (he/him/they)

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    Mar 17

    🧵 When Russia invaded Ukraine, the Conti ransomware gang quickly backed the war. But it didn’t know a Ukrainian researcher had infiltrated its ranks. They published thousands of its files and chats. I read 60,000 Conti messages to understand the gang

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    May 11

    Bellingcat's Tech Team has built a new tool which allows you to collect and analyse TikTok posts. Our step-by-step guide shows you how to install it, how to use it, and how to analyse what you find.

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    May 10

    Last month, more than 25,000 people gathered in Miami for the annual Bitcoin Conference. Some women say they were harassed or assaulted while they were there. Worse, they say the conference did nothing to protect them. My story for :

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    May 10

    A roundup of national statements related to the satellite cyber attack below:

    "The European Union and its Member States, together with its international partners, strongly condemn the malicious cyber activity conducted by the Russian Federation against Ukraine, which targeted the satellite KA-SAT network, operated by Viasat"
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    May 10

    New from me: I wrote about what could happen post-Roe in states where the laws define life as beginning at the moment of fertilization:

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    May 5

    Wrote about something very near and dear to my heart—carrying Narcan.

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    Apr 27

    Since Russia invaded Ukraine at the end of February, the country has faced an unprecedented barrage of hacking activity. Ukraine's volunteer cyberarmy’s actions were just the start of bigger threats on the horizon. 1/7

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    Apr 27

    Thousands of women across Europe have suffered their intimate photos and videos being spread on porn platforms without their consent. This is how new rules designed to crack down on that phenomenon got left out of the EU's . Via

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    Apr 26

    The US has put a $10 million bounty on the six GRU officers who have been identified as part of Russia’s Sandworm hacker group, the subject of my book and (I’d argue) still the most dangerous hackers in the world.

    REWARD! Up to $10M for information on 6 Russian GRU hackers. They targeted U.S. critical infrastructure with malicious cyber ops. Send us info on their activities via our Dark Web-based tips line at:
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    Apr 26

    NEW: Facebook engineers admit the company's systems make it very hard to know where users' data ends up and how it's used. "We can’t confidently make controlled policy changes or external commitments such as ‘we will not use X data for Y purpose.’"

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    Apr 25

    BREAKING: This is not a drill. Elon Musk has reached a deal to buy Twitter for $44 billion.

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  12. Apr 25

    For years the Netherlands has topped 's annual list of countries where it's found the most child sexual abuse material. However, last year there was a drop in the Netherlands and a spike in CSAM being hosted in the US. A quick look at the shift

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    Apr 24

    Good morning! Happy Sunday! For your long(ish) read today, may I suggest this excerpt from in ? In it, I take you through a taxonomy of the trolls I've encountered and some tips for dealing with them.

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    Apr 23

    STORY Questions over 11 Tory MPs and donors handed knighthoods by overseas tax haven

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    Apr 22

    The Navalny documentary, featuring Bellingcat's and the work of Bellingcat investigating Navalny's poisoning, will be broadcast on BBC Two on Monday at 9pm

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  16. Apr 23

    Aleksandr Sorokin’s list of records keeps on growing, NYT piece from last month

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  17. Apr 23

    What an incredible run! ~5:53 minutes per mile (~3:39km), for six hours straight. To put it in some perspective, that’s 20 back-to-back 5kms at around 18:17 each

    NEW 100km WORLD RECORD for Aleksandr Sorkin in 6.05.41!!! Wow!!!
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    Apr 22

    A twist in the case of Ross Ulbricht: The 70,000 Silk Road bitcoins feds seized in 2020 from an unnamed hacker (who stole them the site years earlier) will pay off the $183 million restitution Ulbricht still owed to the government as part of his sentence.

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    Apr 22

    Here’s a story about how U.K. intelligence came to tweet the lowdown on the war in Ukraine. With insights from

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    Apr 21

    Netflix is cracking down on password sharing—proving that sharing isn’t always caring, especially for streaming services. 1/10

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    Apr 21

    NEW: Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg pressured the Daily Mail to shelve a potential article about her then-boyfriend, Activision Blizzard’s Bobby Kotick, sources said.

    37 replies . 321 retweets 879 likes
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