April 13

April 13

Raid forums has been shut down and a 21yr old indicted as the admin. Raid has been up some years, so this entrepreneurial genius has been taking it in since he was 16.

Dominic Alvieri @AlvieriD

@vxunderground @b3ard3dav3ng3r Raid Forums founder Diogo Santos Coelho who is 21 and hails from Portugal was arrested along with two accomplices. c/o Alex Martin

2:33 PM ∙ Apr 12, 2022

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Russia jamming gps? That’s cool.

Russia is jamming GPS satellite signals in Ukraine, US Space Force says | Space

'Ukraine may not be able to use GPS,' a Space Force official told NBC.

Ukraine suggesting they’ll go full Israel on the Butchers of Bucha

Julia Ioffe @juliaioffe

Advisor to Zelensky, @Leshchenkos, on how he thinks Ukraine will get justice for what happened in Bucha: “I think Ukraine will form—or maybe it will form on its own—a group that will seek revenge all over the world, the same way Israel does.”

puck.newsLife and Death and in Between in KyivMany Ukrainians are in a state of shock after the atrocities in Bucha. For Volodymyr Zelensky’s inner circle, horror has given way to a powerful new conviction.

11:39 PM ∙ Apr 11, 2022

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War on the rocks has a guide to the Ukraine Russia war. Including cyber.

A look at how E2EE is understood and maps to tools and how actual cryptographers understand and think about things. …I think?

Chelsea Komlo @chelseakomlo

I wrote a note on end-to-end encryption (E2EE) with Britta Hale, in which we review how intuitive notions of E2EE do or do not map onto existing notions of encryption.

eprint.iacr.orgCryptology ePrint Archive: Report 2022/449 - On End-to-End Encryption

9:44 PM ∙ Apr 12, 2022

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Cyber vigilantism. Now that hackers aren’t demanding Bitcoin, but an end to war, they’re ok! Or maybe it’s because they’re on our side? I’m not very good at splitting hairs…

Here is some legal analysis on hacktivist paramilitary activity. I’m no expert, but it seems to suggest to me, at least, that states have a duty to shutdown vigilantes. Which, you know, given how good they are at stopping hackers in general is probably trivial.

Aristotle Tzafalias @Aristot73

"Cyber vigilantism in support of Ukraine: a legal analysis" - Ann Väljataga, Law Researcher @ccdcoe ccdcoe.org/library/public…

1:11 PM ∙ Apr 13, 2022

Vaguely on topic, here’s the John Oliver segment on data brokers. Future clandestine operators will have to clear cookies after they join CIA otherwise LinkedIn will burn them.

If you create stuff and you’re in the meta verse, you get taxed 50% off the top by our cyber overlords.

Casey Newton @CaseyNewton

The rent in the metaverse is too damn high. I wrote about Meta, Microsoft, and Roblox all taking nearly half of creators’ earnings

platformer.news/p/is-the-metav…