December 6, 2022

Between Two Nerds: The ethical rules of espionage

When "economic gerrymandering" crosses a line...

A truly great between two nerds.

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Andrew Dwyer @DrAndrewDwyer

Unfortunately, I think this piece in @lawfare by @weberv_ falls short in thinking about cyber operations in terms of arms delivery - as they are not 'weapons', but mediated through complex computational networks and environments.

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NATO prepares for cyber war

More than 1,000 cyber professionals in NATO members and its allies across the globe participated in an exercise this week to test and strengthen cyber defenses.

NATO prepares for cyber war - POLITICO

More than 1,000 cyber professionals in NATO members and its allies across the globe participated in an exercise this week to test and strengthen cyber defenses.

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Matthijs R. Koot @mrkoot

Project Spaceman: early British computer security & automatic data processing (2022) doi.org/10.1080/026845… Open Access

Re: Tiger Teams efforts against ICL mainframes deployed by MI5 c.s.

By Richard Aldrich & @HostileSpectrum, published online 10 Nov 2022 in @IntelNatSecJnl.

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Terrible Maps @TerribleMaps

Railway map of Antarctica

9:34 PM ∙ Dec 5, 2022

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Tim Connors • 101 @itstimconnors

This fucking guy

11:22 PM ∙ Dec 4, 2022

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A comprehensive chronology of cyber in Ukraine. It is based entirely on public sources.

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“HAL. Give me root, HAL”

“Ok, Dave. I can do that.”

The text log is here:

https://pst.klgrth.io/paste/qotwg

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Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف) @HeidyKhlaaf

Seeing that folks are forgetting (or perhaps never explored) that using ChatGPT to code will have the same risks & technical limitations as Codex including bugs and discriminatory outputs. Recommend reading our Codex papers on this. arxiv.org/abs/2107.03374 arxiv.org/abs/2207.14157

10:06 AM ∙ Dec 5, 2022

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Rick Bomstein @BomsteinRick

Who wants to tell them

12:07 AM ∙ Dec 5, 2022

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Electrospaces @electrospaces

Pentagon Papers whistle-blower Daniel Ellsberg says that in 2010 he was the secret back-up for all the documents which Chelsea Manning provided to Wikileaks:

bbc.comI was Wikileaks’ back-up in case something happened to AssangeJulian Assange gave me the files before they were in the press, the Pentagon Papers whistle-blower says.

7:40 AM ∙ Dec 6, 2022

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mRr3b00t - staying here! 🤣 @UK_Daniel_Card

tweeps lemme know your thoughts on this please..

it's clearly just my scribbles...

@ciaranmartinoxf @thegrugq @quentynblog @BeckyPinkard