Reporter and knowledge broker @CyberScoopNews, covering elections, privacy and more. Priors @fcwnow and @scmagazine. Catch me at derek.johnson@cyberscoop.com.
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22 Jul 2025
Arizona election officials say a hack targeting a statewide online portal for political candidates resulted in the defacement and replacement of multiple candidate photos with the late Iranian Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. via @DerekDoesTech youtube.com/watch?v=E4r3wuqP… | cyberscoop.com/arizona-secre…
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derekbjohnson.bsky.social retweeted
10 Jul 2025
I talked to Republican lawmakers about deaths since USAID’s withdrawal from the world. Most brushed off the reports, and some insisted that people couldn’t be dying as a result.
“I don’t believe that. No.”
Read more: notus.org/foreign-policy/rep…
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derekbjohnson.bsky.social retweeted
30 May 2025
whatever happened to good old American names like von Braun
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derekbjohnson.bsky.social retweeted
29 May 2025
A Wisconsin child care center closed for 5 days when the Trump admin froze funding for Head Start.
Parents scrambled. One family drove their kids to KY to stay with extended family so that the parents could go to work. Two kids left and never came back.
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27 May 2025
wow real PR coup for Toyota.
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derekbjohnson.bsky.social retweeted
7 Mar 2025
Wow. The NYT used to be ~1% of all us newspaper employees. Now it's 7% and rising. The industry used to employ 150k, now down to ~30k.
Only the biggest can even stay stable, much less grow. (Even the NYT has only added ~2k jobs since 2018.)
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derekbjohnson.bsky.social retweeted
2 Jan 2025
The biggest cybersecurity and cyberattack stories of 2024 bleepingcomputer.com/news/se…
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derekbjohnson.bsky.social retweeted
15 Nov 2024
The path from "no question" to "I consider" to "likely" is a work of art.
15 Nov 2024
Debbie Wasserman Schultz on Tulsi Gabbard: "There's no question I consider her someone who is likely a Russian asset."
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derekbjohnson.bsky.social retweeted
15 Nov 2024
when you were apparently taking seriously the idea that Donald Trump was a some sort of opponent of security surveillance about anyone but himself life can come at you fairly fast
15 Nov 2024
Anyone who appoints Mike Rogers to run the FBI - after he's arguably been the single most ardent, blind and extremist defender of the US Security State and its surveillance and politicized abuses - should forfeit forever any claim to be interested in combatting those agencies:
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derekbjohnson.bsky.social retweeted
15 Nov 2024
When I asked Johnson if he would want to know if the top law enforcement officer in the country had sex with a minor or not he rolled his eyes and didn’t answer the question.
15 Nov 2024
NEWS from @Reporter_Mia: Speaker Johnson weighs in on whether the Gaetz ethics committee report should be released.
"I'm going to strongly request that the Ethics Committee not issue the report because that is not the way we do things in the House, and I think that would be a terrible precedent to set."
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15 Nov 2024
Already on Bluesky but have been pretty dormant. Looking to change that. If you like me here, follow me there: derekbjohnson.bsky.social
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15 Nov 2024
A postmortem, of sorts. thenation.com/article/politi…
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derekbjohnson.bsky.social retweeted
14 Nov 2024
Sen. Rand Paul, soon to be chair of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, told me today that his plan for CISA is to either work to eliminate it, or severely curtail its powers. Read more here: politico.com/news/2024/11/14…
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derekbjohnson.bsky.social retweeted
14 Nov 2024
Look at this graph and explain to me why you think I should read this as a measure of consumer confidence rather than partisanship.
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derekbjohnson.bsky.social retweeted
14 Nov 2024
Harris lost all seven swing states, but in five of them - Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Wisconsin - she's ending up with more raw votes than Biden got in 2020.
If you still think all those swing state mail votes in 2020 were fake, idk what to tell you.
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Pro-Harris TikTok felt safe in an algorithmic bubble — until election day trib.al/jJK8Uy7
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