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I guess we are doing salt typhoon again. Good thing all the phone companies told congress they could handle their own security and there was nothing to worry about. We should probably just abolish CALEA

Exclusive | U.S. Wiretap Systems Targeted in China-Linked Hack AT&T and Verizon are among the broadband providers breached in the “Salt Typhoon” hack, potentially accessing information from systems the federal government uses for court-authorized network wiretapp...

Wake up babe, it’s salt typhoon season again. www.wsj.com/tech/cyberse...

My family has gotten used to the fact that sometimes the internet doesn't work and they need to go tell dad to fix the DNS. They don't like it but they accept it.

You can even use a VPN based adblocker or a network wide adblocker such as pi-hole, just use something !

Using adblockers such as privacy badger or ublock origin is a necessary step, not just for privacy but for safety!

Look What You Made Us Patch: 2025 Zero-Days in Review | Google Cloud Blog Our analysis of 90 zero-day vulnerabilities tracked in 2025, focusing on techniques and how AI will accelerate the vulnerability landscape.

The cyber-mercenary industry is now bigger than state sponsored hacking.
"For the first time since we began tracking zero-day exploitation, we attributed more zero-days to [commercial surveillance vendors] than to traditional state-sponsored cyber espionage groups."
cloud.google.com/blog/topics/...

A Iran-tied hacktivist group claims to have hacked Saudi Aramco. 12 years ago Iran wiped that company, one of the most significant cyberattacks in history. I didn't think this looked to be similar, but I asked Aramco anyway. This is their response.

oh no

The Anthropic-DOD Conflict: Privacy Protections Shouldn’t Depend On the Decisions of a Few Powerful People The U.S. military has officially ended its $200 million contract with AI company Anthropic and has ordered all other military contractors to cease use of their products. Why? Because of a dispute over...

The Anthropic dustup has one clear message: Our privacy rights should not be dependent on backroom deals between tech CEOs and the surveillance state.

It me!

DHS's Office of Industry Partnership was hacked by a group called "Department of Peace" and info about ICE contracts with over 6,000 companies is now published on @ddosecrets.org!

Enjoy 🧊🔨 ddosecrets.org/article/ice-...

I just threw together a website visualizing this ICE contract data! You can browse through the companies and their contracts, and filter them by state micahflee.github.io/ice-contracts/

"Why hack the DHS? I can think of a couple Pretti Good reasons!" Today, DDoSecrets published data about ICE contracts hacked from DHS's Office of Industry Partnership. The hacker group, Department of Peace, published a statement that included: Why hack the DHS? I ...

"Why hack the DHS? I can think of a couple Pretti Good reasons!" micahflee.com/why-hack-the...

World IDs could present tempting targets for theft if they become widely adopted, EFF’s @falsemirror.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy told @WSJ.com. “You can’t change your iris if someone does manage to get ahold of that information.” www.wsj.com/tech/sam-al...

If you think 200 Americans are dead in Iran I have a bridge and a train and a swamp to sell you.

Oh god now what

"Rayhunter: Detecing Cell-Site Simulators (aka Stingrays) with Cooper Quintin | The Final Straw Radio – TFSR 2-22-26" featuring the logo for Rayhunter, an orca leaping and taking a bite out of a graph showing available cellular connectivity

This week, @cooperq.com of the @eff.org talks about cellular site simulators and counter-surveillance
+ a Radio Ausbruch segment on the deBanking in Germany at US behest disrupting the work of Rote Hilfe, @abcdresden.bsky.social and others

thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2026/02...

Hey Mark, we noticed.

LMAO you couldn't design a better way to get us mad about something than to send a memo saying "EFF is so distracted by the fascism that they won't even notice our horrifying surveillance glasses."

Oglala and Cheyenne River Lakota Nations Ban ICE -- ICE Terrorizing Native Americans : Indybay The Oglala Lakota and Cheyenne River Lakota Nations in South Dakota have banned ICE. Further, the Oglala Nation in Pine Ridge rejected a federal immigration agreement aimed at compromising its soverei...

The Oglala Sioux Tribe unanimously banned ICE from Pine Ridge in South Dakota, and rejected a federal immigration agreement, during a special session of the Oglala Sioux Tribal Council on Jan. 21, 2026.

Council members said Lakotas are being targeted by ICE in Denver and Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

No One, Including Our Furry Friends, Will Be Safer in Ring's Amazon Ring’s Super Bowl ad offered a vision of our streets that should leave every person unsettled about the company’s goals for disintegrating our privacy in public.In the ad, disguised as a

Ring has announced a new “Search Party” feature that could eventually bring mass biometric surveillance to our streets. It’s on by default. Shut it off.
www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Why Signal Is Still Our Favorite Secure Messaging App (And Why No Messaging App Is Perfectly Secure) Signal’s approach to end-to-end encryption makes it especially safe for sending messages. We have some tips on how to use it, and why no messaging app is perfect.

“A lot of very smart people pay attention to both the Signal Protocol and the Signal apps to ensure they are operating as intended,” EFF’s @thorinklosowski.com told @nytwirecutter.bsky.social.
www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/...

The Washington Post Is No Longer Useful to Jeff Bezos In a kleptocracy, there is no reason for a billionaire to own an adversarial news outlet.

There is zero reason for a billionaire to own an adversarial news outlet in a kleptocracy. And so billionaires are gutting the media companies they own, reorienting them to better align with the regime, and spending money on bribes rather than journalists

www.404media.co/the-washingt...

this is like when the warrant canary suddenly disappears but for the US doing a coup in the global south

Release Rayhunter v0.10.0 · EFForg/rayhunter Major changes Improved the Priority 2G Downgrade heuristic to fix false positives in Europe new High Visibility display mode, draws red/green all over the screen instead of just a line Fix a bug w...

Rayhunter 0.10 is out! github.com/EFForg/rayhu...
Improved the Priority 2G Downgrade heuristic to fix false positives in Europe
new High Visibility display mode, draws red/green all over the screen instead of just a line
Rayhunter will now warn you if you have no SIM card inserted
and more!

ICE is afraid of children protesting “Next time, I’ll be back with a gas mask.”

ICE tear gassed a bunch of children on Saturday. This was a massive escalation of force. They were shooting tear gas at the back of the crowd, it took these unmasked people maybe 3-5 minutes in the cloud of tear gas to escape in without trampling. www.theverge.com/policy/87278...

"Nearby, a six-year-old wondered if the unicorn she saw marching earlier was ok. "

if you ever worked at Palantir you owe the trans people and POC in your life apologies and probably reparations

I never thought I would see the day

It’s frankly insulting that the worlds worst people weren’t meeting in a command center in a volcano wearing ceremonial robes but were all emailing on Hotmail accounts like “want 2 atrosity? With wemen?”