@yinfiyin has probably some of the best material on YT at the moment focusing on China's socio-political topics and general structure. Especially for laymen who deal little with China, those videos are good starting point. He is not a hardcore tech guy, but some of his topics veer into the territory quite a bit and explain the political frameworks well : youtube.com/watch?v=jnnuZ3DQ…

A while ago we got our hands on documents from the Xinjiang Police College in Urumqi, concerning the requirements on their Cyberspace Security Laboratory to be build in 2025. The document was quite detailed on what kind of training the authorities are planning to provide to the upcoming members of the "cyber police" and delivers some interesting insights into the capabilities of the security services. It holds details on what kind of malware and viruses the training setup should include, remote intelligence gathering ( including OSINT and network traffic analysis of targets and suspects ), learning how to use "living off the land" tooling to conduct offensive as well as defensive tactics. It also holds references to AI capabilities and the procurement of NVIDIA RTX 4090 ( which were on the entity list at the stage of the release of the document ).

How the PRC 🇨🇳 has become Fascist: @TuftsUniversity 's Professor Michael Beckley at @wkforum @AEI

Epic OPSEC fail by NSO Group. @whatsapp recently caught the notorious spyware company hacking across their platform. (NSO is forbidden from doing this by a US court!) In their testing, NSO was sending a test image of a soup cup...on a desktop mat with the NSO Group logo. Making it worse, the image was user-reported to WhatsApp. Cleanest attribution I've seen in a long time.

Interesting that Apple takes a “stand” here but when it comes to China you hear not a peep

The Apple fan boys are having a meltdown at the moment…

The technology of mass data analysis when it comes to visual surveillance has been around for quite a while. Sure, the quality, speed and reliability has taken massive leaps forward but the tech, frameworks and pipelines have been around for over a decade. China has been on it for quite some time... 2/8

FL police use A.I. to identify a vehicle theft suspect from surveillance video. Based on an "85% match" they arrest and charge Jalil Richardson. He spends 3 months in jail. He loses his job, his home, and custody of his kids. Richardson lives in N.C. He's never been to Florida. And his timesheet shows him at work at the time of the crime. No one checked before charging him. yahoo.com/news/us/articles/a…

Here are the test results for MAX app (max.ru) availability. iOS: applecensorship.com/app-stor… Google Play: googlecensorship.org/play-st…

Second available post continuing to discourage using privacy technologies including private cryptocurrencies and E2EE messaging: x.com/kekzploit/status/20335… Your posts aim to stop people protecting their privacy with illogical claims about backdoors contradicted by actual evidence.

Our statement on the UK government’s demand that all content on all devices sold or used in the country be scanned, on the presumption of nudity, using a dystopian combination of age verification and content scanning. This proposal will not safeguard children. It endangers us all. signal.org/blog/pdfs/2026-06…

This is complete nonsense. There's nothing illegal about using GrapheneOS and it doesn't do anything interfering with the secure operation of apps and services. It's far more secure than any Google-certified OS. Play Integrity API banning GrapheneOS is an antitrust law violation.

It was just a matter of time until they would try to actively curb GrapheneOS as it is the only OS that doesn’t play according to the “rules”. They want to choke it.

“Appslop”

This is an insane story. The DOGE whistleblower who said that login attempts were made to the NLRB from Russian IP addresses minutes after DOGE got access had his brake lines cut and photos of him walking his dog from a drone taped to his door after Musk attacked him on Twitter

Guys, come on …

German 🇩🇪 police is buying and using data from the advertising industry. This often includes location data, from which movement profiles of phones / their owners can be derived, reported by @netzpolitik_org: "We asked all 16 state data protection authorities – none gave a specific legal basis for the use of commercial location data by the police."

According to the German civil liberties organisation @freiheitsrechte, journalist Trung Khoa Lê and the organisation have filed a complaint with authorities in 🇩🇪Berlin over an alleged attempt to infect the reporter's phone with Predator spyware in 2023. dnews.gr/eidhseis/news-in-en…