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@esquiring.bsky.social
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ACAB includes this.
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Kevin Collier@kevincollier.bsky.social |
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I cover digital threats for NBC News. Tip me! @kevincollier01 on signal, kevin.collier@nbcuni.com.
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@esquiring.bsky.social
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ACAB includes this.
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pool boy bitch
@milesklee.bsky.social
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FRIEND: how's work? ME: you know, same as usual
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Ham Elliot
@r0wdy.sk33t.expert
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If you're feeling down here's Joe Pesci and Frank Vincent when they were a stand-up act
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Quinta Jurecic
@qjurecic.bsky.social
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I really cannot emphasize how catastrophically bad the Court's ruling was. I do my best not to exaggerate about these kinds of things but I am still kind of in shock
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Moira Donegan
@moiradonegan.bsky.social
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Going public with an experience like this is life-altering for a woman, so when you read these stories remember both the extraordinary amount of courage involved and also the likelihood that there are many others you’ll never hear.
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Molly White
@molly.wiki
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Coinbase's "Stand With Crypto" PAC website is now confirming what I reported earlier. More than 99% of the amount they claimed was raised by this supposedly "grassroots" PAC is in fact massive corporate contributions to the FairShake super PAC.
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Kevin Collier
@kevincollier.bsky.social
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Yes but if they WERE making bad arguments, man, imagine how bad some of those arguments might be.
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Gavin Wilde
@gavinwilde.bsky.social
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When you've lost Goldman Sachs...
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Gavin Wilde
@gavinwilde.bsky.social
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Read any history of Russia in the 1990s for a great guide to what happens when you hollow out the so-called "administrative state": graft, corruption, and ineptitude at providing even the most basic government services and providing for minimal public safety.
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Kevin Collier
@kevincollier.bsky.social
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It's crazy to me that the agency we task with protecting our elections from hackers (while being SUPER careful to not be perceived as overstepping their boundaries) also does active shooter drills for small town public schools.
content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USD...
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Kevin Collier
@kevincollier.bsky.social
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Biden has lost Tom Friedman, whatever that's worth: www.nytimes.com/2024/06/28/o...
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Amy A
@lolennui.bsky.social
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Jake tapper oh you mean like from bluesky
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Dell Cameron
@dell.bsky.social
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another day, another "welp"
my latest @ WIRED: "Surprise! The Latest 'Comprehensive' US Privacy Bill Is Doomed"
www.wired.com/story/apra-p...
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Andrew Couts
@couts.bsky.social
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"Material the subcommittee obtained under subpoena or in closed-door hearings ended up in the hands of a right-wing group that had sued us, which was led by Mr. Jordan’s longtime ideological ally Stephen Miller." www.nytimes.com/2024/06/25/o...
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tweety fish
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This is the key bit w/r/t what somebody was saying earlier about "why were we told the internet is forever". It is forever! It's also constantly evaporating. It's just that you don't get to pick which of those two it will be.
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Kevin Collier
@kevincollier.bsky.social
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FBI briefings about foreign online influence campaigns are BACK. Julian Assange is BACK. Total uncertainty of which social media companies will do what to combat election mis/disinformation is BACK.
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Kevin Collier
@kevincollier.bsky.social
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This is the case that prompted DOJ guidance for the FBI to stop warning social media companies about foreign influence campaigns on their platforms, though they had somewhat resumed
www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
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emptywheel
@emptywheel.bsky.social
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The Damaging Precedent of the Julian Assange Espionage Guilty Plea
www.emptywheel.net/2024/06/26/t...
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Kevin Collier
@kevincollier.bsky.social
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I wouldn't call these IRL bitcoin robberies common, but there is a drumbeat of them. Seems cybercrime occasionally dovetailing with IRL violence is the new normal.
www.justice.gov/opa/pr/man-c...
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Kevin Collier
@kevincollier.bsky.social
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Ooh I didn't realize they were that different. I've only seen the first cut.
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Kevin Collier
@kevincollier.bsky.social
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I maintain Risk is the definitive way to understand Assange. Poitras expertly tracked his descent and showed him explicitly making the bad judgement call of trying to secure his freedom by going all in on Trump to beat Clinton.
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Kevin Collier
@kevincollier.bsky.social
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Biden let Assange loose five months before the election to keep him quiet is definitely a take!
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Kevin Collier
@kevincollier.bsky.social
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Assange's vision of radical transparency has long involved prostrating himself before right-wing authoritarians, from Putin's Russia to Trump. But Trump's DOJ indicated him and Trump refused to pardon, then Biden's DOJ struck this deal. Curious how/if Assange and his supporters try to square this.
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Kevin Collier
@kevincollier.bsky.social
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Unusual and intriguing: FTC recommends charges against Tiktok and Bytedance for violating privacy of US children under 13.
Few specifics but "The investigation uncovered reason to believe named defendants are violating or are about to violate the law."
www.ftc.gov/news-events/...
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Kevin Collier
@kevincollier.bsky.social
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At some point extremely prolific cybercriminals wanted by the FBI and who knows who all else are going to realize they can't just fly in and out of Spain, but I guess we aren't there yet.
krebsonsecurity.com/2024/06/alle...
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Kevin Collier
@kevincollier.bsky.social
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That third one!
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Kevin Collier
@kevincollier.bsky.social
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This is a good headline
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Dell Cameron
@dell.bsky.social
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Reuters has unearthed a US military-led ant-vax campaign that targeted Filipinos using sock puppet accounts.
Incredible reporting from @chrisbing.bsky.social.
www.reuters.com/investigates...
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Kevin Collier
@kevincollier.bsky.social
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It's old hat for somebody to leave military/government/intelligence work to take a job in tech, but to go from running the NSA to sitting on OpenAI's board within a couple months is a new one.
openai.com/index/openai...
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Gavin Wilde
@gavinwilde.bsky.social
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This admin is packed to the brim with cybersecurity experts and strategies - leaving me to wonder why researchers were left to shoulder the "Recall" debacle themselves. My thoughts for @cyberscoop.bsky.social 👇
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Jaya Saxena
@jayasax.bsky.social
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Just posting this again cause I think it turned out well and that you should read it www.eater.com/24162871/foo...
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Kevin Collier
@kevincollier.bsky.social
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Congrats to CISA. Finally really made it as an agency.
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Kevin Collier
@kevincollier.bsky.social
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There's really no possible better evidence to prove that Russian ransomware actors don't fear hitting any western target at all. They are completely undeterred.
www.theguardian.com/society/arti...
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Zahra Hirji
@zhirji.bsky.social
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I learned so much in the reporting of this story, but the piece I can't stop thinking about is how older adults "don't sense heat in the same way," according to UOttawa's Glen Kenny.
In other words, the elderly can't easily self-identify harmful heat.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Hayes Brown
@hayesbrown.bsky.social
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new from me: Trump won't have access to the same levers of power he did after the 2020 election. I look at how in the absence of that internal pressure campaign, his allies are laying the groundwork to discredit and/or undermine an Election Day loss
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Kevin Collier
@kevincollier.bsky.social
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Great reporting from @sheeraf.bsky.social. These campaigns are common, but details rarely so thoroughly confirmed from start to finish. Noteworthy: still very little proof they're effective, and they thrive especially on Twitter, which cut staff that would remove it.
www.nytimes.com/2024/06/05/t...
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Tom Scocca
@tomscocca.bsky.social
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One editor persistently asking "Did that happen, though?" would leave the Wall Street Journal opinion section a clean soothing expanse of blank paper
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Dhruv Mehrotra
@dmehro.bsky.social
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NEW: Police in a border city deployed drones to investigate 20,000 911 calls—from noise complaints to murder. They have amassed hundreds of hours of footage above residents not involved in crimes
The poorer the neighborhood, the more exposure residents faced
www.wired.com/story/the-ag...
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Kevin Collier
@kevincollier.bsky.social
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Germany's counterpart to the FBI has released dossiers on eight alleged cybercriminals who have proven elusive to arrest so far. Unsurprisingly, all eight are Russian and do not photograph well (or at least these webcam shots are very unflattering).
www.bka.de/DE/IhreSiche...
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Kevin Collier
@kevincollier.bsky.social
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(That one's a recent, very aggravating personal experience.)
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Kevin Collier
@kevincollier.bsky.social
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And even go beyond that, drilling down on basics of human knowledge. Hire librarians, cite encyclopedias. Because now you can no longer, for instance, Google for things like what drill bit sizes match what screws. You get 10 different AI sites each making up their own numbers.
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Kevin Collier
@kevincollier.bsky.social
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One would *think* that any search company pivoting to AI would learn that tech that mimics language without understanding is inherently riddled with falsehoods. So searches should prioritize sites that employ humans to get things correct, like...the news.
www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
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Brandy Zadrozny
@brandyzadrozny.bsky.social
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Nicole Shanahan was advised by a wellness guru that her kid’s autism was her fault—a government plot around vaccines and computer blue light. Shanahan believed it and donated millions to his causes. Details from my new down-the-rabbit-hole profile of RFK’s VP pick.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...
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Kevin Collier
@kevincollier.bsky.social
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Really brutal takedown, and I see no lies.
defector.com/if-kevin-roo...
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Kevin Collier
@kevincollier.bsky.social
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IMO you gotta block all engagement farmers and move on with your life, that anything that isn't really living your best life
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Kevin Collier
@kevincollier.bsky.social
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Talked about this a few months ago with a friend who'd recently lost his father. He said grieving was extremely hard but also necessary. Keeping his father's death in limbo seemed obscene and psychologically destructive. You need closure.
www.wsj.com/lifestyle/re...
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Timothy
@herooftim.bsky.social
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Love what google is up to these days
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Kevin Collier
@kevincollier.bsky.social
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I'm sure she brought her own. Didn't want to be a bother.
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Kevin Collier
@kevincollier.bsky.social
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With this move, Nakasone has broken from the tradition of the previous two NSA/Cybercom directors and chosen to *not* immediately do cyber consulting in for a MENA country or company.
therecord.media/paul-nakason...
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Maggie Harrison Dupré
@mharrisondupre.bsky.social
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I kept digging into that AI company behind Sports Illustrated's fake writers. Turns out it's created tons more fake writers across the web, sometimes for surprisingly huge media clients. And then things get even wilder...
For @futurism.bsky.social // futurism.com/advon-ai-con...
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