Year: 2019
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Cybersecurity Roundup
Originally published on Patreon. This week we’re stuck with Assange for the interim, NYT managed to dumb infosec reporting in between all its other annoyingness, I’m totally on board with hacker-y social engineering lessons from Killing Eve, art merges with malware for a profit, mo’ Huawei = mo’ problems, Snapchat acts like … itself, and… Read more…
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Cybersecurity Roundup
Originally published on Patreon. This week we’ve got Google messing with hackers-for-hire, a disturbing look at phone number hijacking, Assange planting disinfo about his seized computers, ICE spending big on phone-cracking tools, Facebook is having a hard time with hiring, a long and disturbing thread on Glenn Greenwald, and much more. A bunch of hacks… Read more…
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Mental health awareness: Online attacks
Originally published on Patreon. For Mental Health Awareness Month, I’m sharing information that could be helpful for anyone struggling with the overwhelm and invasiveness of today’s social media and news landscape. For the first three Saturdays of May, I’ve published some of my work with mental health professionals over the past few years for different… Read more…
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Cybersecurity Roundup
Originally published on Patreon. This week infosec does that thing it does so well: make a crazypants mess of everything. Julian Assange’s computers are getting turned over to the US DOJ, WhatsApp got hardcore pwned by NSO Group, Amnesty International is going after NSO Group as an arms dealer, the Intercept now has a third… Read more…
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Mental health awareness: Toxic people
Originally published on Patreon. For Mental Health Awareness Month, I’m sharing information that could be helpful for anyone struggling with the overwhelm and invasiveness of today’s social media and news landscape. On the first three Saturdays of May, I’m publishing my work with mental health professionals over the past few years for different books I’ve… Read more…
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Cybersecurity Roundup
Originally published on Patreon. This week we’ve got cyberwar turning into real war, murderous mercenaries who innovate, Alexa creeping us out (again), Facebook’s “war room” won’t let journalists ask questions, the Russian spy whale defected to Norway after all, Trump spent US cyberwar money on a shiny boat instead, and much more. Nowhere to hide… Read more…
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No Word for Water: Playlist
Originally published on Patreon. This is a music playlist for my book, “A Fish Has No Word for Water.” The book, true stories about my life as a homeless punk kid on the streets of San Francisco, is almost finished. It has taken me much longer to write this book than I anticipated. That’s partly… Read more…
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Mental health awareness: Staying sane online
Originally published on Patreon. For Mental Health Awareness Month, I’m sharing information that could be helpful for anyone struggling with today’s social media and news landscape. On the first three Saturdays of May, I’m publishing my work with mental health professionals over the past few years for different books I’ve authored (like Smart Girl’s Privacy… Read more…
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Hey Alexa: How can we escape surveillance capitalism?
Originally published in Engadget. This is not what we signed up for, but at least it was on sale. 1 / 3 Illustration by Koren Shadmi Where do you go when you want to escape surveillance? When you want to stop feeling like you might be being listened to by microphones, or watched through surveillance… Read more…
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Cybersecurity Roundup
Originally published on Patreon. This week, dispatches from infosec bizzaroland include: an award-winning security journo doxing a hacker, mental health apps doxing users, the CIA-employee “Vault 7” WikiLeaker complaining he can’t have a gun in jail, Apple getting sued over facial recognition criminal charges, and much more. Dox Populi In the annuls of bad infosec… Read more…