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Alex Martin retweeted
Jun 11
NEW: Keir Starmer insists ‘I will always do what is needed to keep our country safe’ in response to John Healey
PM claims the govt is backing the DIP with ‘the necessary investment’
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Alex Martin retweeted
Jun 12
The next war won't be won by armies, navies or air forces alone.
It'll be won by the country whose 19 year olds can code, whose factories can build drones in weeks not years, and whose grid stays on when someone tries to switch it off.
Industry. Society. Economy. That's the fight now.
We're not ready. And we're not being honest about what getting ready will cost.
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Alex Martin retweeted
Jun 11
Chairman of Alternative for Germany (AfD) Saxony Jörg Urban was just caught at the Russian Embassy in Prague by Czech journalists from @enkocz.
Russian Embassy in Prague often serves as a regional headquarters of Russian intelligence to run their assets in Germany.
Full story:
denikn.cz/2092589/hvezda-nem…
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Alex Martin retweeted
Jun 11
Oops! While testing WhatsApp, NSO Group apparently spam-reported their own pic of a ramen cup, failing to notice the faint NSO logo visible on the desk mat below. Exhibit in WhatsApp's Motion for Contempt, and a rather fun case study in attribution courtlistener.com/docket/163…
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Alex Martin retweeted
Jun 10
Scoop: Britain has weakened proposed cybersecurity protections for its telecoms networks that were developed in response to the Salt Typhoon espionage campaign, after the companies responsible for implementing the measures lobbied against them.
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Jun 10
Scoop: Britain has weakened proposed cybersecurity protections for its telecoms networks that were developed in response to the Salt Typhoon espionage campaign, after the companies responsible for implementing the measures lobbied against them.
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Jun 10
None of the published assessments account for the cost of a successful hostile-state intrusion into UK telecoms infrastructure. This is one-sided accounting, as we were told by Rob Bratby and Ciaran Martin.
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Jun 10
The government has in other circumstances published such proportionality assessments. Three weeks after the telecoms consultation closed, DSIT published independent research estimating cyberattacks cost the British economy £14.7 billion ($19.7 billion) annually...
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Jun 9
Curious claim by Parton. Does the PM have just one official car? And all of this framing about a hidden Chinese tracking device… how would one distinguish that from the unexpected discovery of a SIM card or cellular module fitted in normal commercial vehicles for telematics?
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Jun 9
Only a broad passing reference to how the National Security (State Threats) Bill introduced to Parliament today would interact w/ the issue of (potentially unscrupulous, debate for another time) journalists using state-hacked materials in their reporting: gov.uk/government/publicatio…
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Jun 9
Seems to be a gap between the factsheet assurance and the text of the bill itself. Section 17C(3) states material benefits may include “information.” There is no stated journalistic defence. A big issue given murky links between cybercrime groups, hacktivists and state actors.
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Alex Martin retweeted
VON DER LEYEN: We propose, for the first time, to ban from entry into the European Union anyone who has served in Russian armed forces since the beginning of the war.
Europe stays off-limits for anyone who has participated in the invasion of Ukraine. As simple as that.
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Spoke to @daryna_antoniuk from @TheRecord_Media about Russia's new SORM regulation.
These new mass surveillance rules are aimed at ensuring that the Russian people do not dare to express their critical views online out of fear of being identified and prosecuted.
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Jun 9
In some greater length, here's a LinkedIn article about why Signal and the UK govt are both wrong, and what could work ⤵️
linkedin.com/pulse/signal-no…
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Jun 9
Two things on this. Firstly, of course the government can know the identities of people using the internet. That threshold was crossed a very long time ago.
Secondly, there’s something miserable and fatalistic about both sides of this debate, isn’t there?
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Jun 9
Signal’s alternative is basically “do the hard social stuff” which is vague to the point of being a way of not answering the question. “Fund education and social services” is what you say when you don't want to engage with the specific problem.
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Jun 9
The better counterpoint is to design the capability with the constraints built in structurally, not promised politically. It’s a shame the first attempt at that — and it was just that, a humble first attempt — didn’t receive more positive engagement.
arxiv.org/abs/2207.09506
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