July 18, 2022

                July 18, 2022

            July 18, 2022

Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla
My jaw hit the floor when I discovered Boris Johnson left an emergency NATO meeting after the Kremlin’s chemical warfare attack on Britain & flew to an off-the-books meeting with an ex-KGB spy.

Yours should too.

This is how it happened.
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theguardian.comBoris Johnson and the Lebedevs: how I exposed the prime minister’s defining scandalThe ties between the PM and an ex-KGB officer, first revealed in the Observer three years ago, could be Johnson’s lasting legacy3:10 PM ∙ Jul 17, 2022
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Leonid Volkov @leonidvolkov
Putin's next (and final) battle. 
(This thread went viral in Russian so I decided to publish an English version as well)

A long thread about what, in my opinion, is Putin's strategy right now, and the last gamble he is making to break Ukraine's resistance.

1/263:53 PM ∙ Jul 17, 2022
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Alexander Gabuev 陳寒士 @AlexGabuevTHREAD
Is Russia becoming a giant Iran of Eurasia? A few thoughts from my conversation with @gideonrachman about 🇷🇺 future and its relationship with China for The Rachman Review podcast @FT ft.com/content/9fe8d0…
ft.comRussia’s future: a giant Iran of EurasiaNews, analysis and comment from the Financial Times, the worldʼs leading global business publication4:49 AM ∙ Jul 18, 2022
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dash @User_to_RootNotes on gaining shell on a chinese surveillance camera
github.com/c0decave/yoose…

#hacktheplanet #uart #devtty
github.comGitHub - c0decave/yoosee-ipc: Research in regard of cheap chinese camera systemResearch in regard of cheap chinese camera system. Contribute to c0decave/yoosee-ipc development by creating an account on GitHub.7:23 AM ∙ Jul 17, 2022
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ProPublica @propublica
A year after the U.S. barred Mexicans from crossing the border to sell their blood, pharmaceutical companies have acknowledged that those donations provided as much as 10% of the plasma collected nationwide as they seek to have the ban overturned. propub.liPharma Companies Sue for the Right to Buy Blood From Mexicans Along BorderA year after the U.S. barred Mexicans from crossing the border to sell their blood, pharmaceutical companies have acknowledged that those donations provided as much as 10% of the plasma collected nationwide as they seek to have the ban overturned.6:50 PM ∙ Jul 17, 2022
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Divyansh Kaushik @dkaushik96We blew our ability to lead in the development of and setting standards for the 5G technology… by not granting **ONE** Green Card. 

Imagine all the technology we’re saying goodbye to by not retaining the foreign STEM talent trained at US universities.
foreignpolicy.com/2022/07/16/imm… 
1:46 PM ∙ Jul 17, 2022
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https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/07/malware-circulating-online-wrangles-industrial-systems-into-a-botnet/

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Rob Price 🏔 @robaeprice
NEW: Days before the 2020 COVID-19 lockdown, Palo Alto police got a call. Netflix exec Chris Eberle had killed his partner and locked himself in his home.

Cops raided the house — but found only a confused family inside. Eberle hadn’t lived there in years.

🧵 https://t.co/IE7ezbj6t9Business Insider @BusinessInsider
'They're going after my family': How a bizarre obsession with the most sought-after handles on Instagram and Twitter spawned a deadly campaign of terror https://t.co/Q5Lo9Ltcik
5:05 PM ∙ Jul 17, 2022
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https://www.ghacks.net/2022/07/17/facebook-has-started-to-encrypt-links-to-counter-privacy-improving-url-stripping/

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Citizen Lab @citizenlab
NEW REPORT: Discovery of an extensive espionage campaign in Thailand 🇹🇭  involving the abuse of NSO Group’s #Pegasus spyware

In collaboration with @iLawFX and @DigitalReachSEA 

citizenlab.ca/2022/07/geckos…citizenlab.caGeckoSpy: Pegasus Spyware Used Against Thailand’s Pro-Democracy Movement - The Citizen LabUncovering an extensive espionage operation infecting dozens of Thai pro-democracy campaigners with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware.3:13 AM ∙ Jul 18, 2022
204Likes283RetweetsOutside of the capital city of Bangkok, where most of the protests take place, mobile service providers have required their users to submit biometric data (e.g., in the restive Southern Border Provinces, which are populated by minority ethnic Malay Muslims)  
This is a misleading. The south is over a thousand kilometers (700 miles) away from Bangkok. 
“Restive” is underplaying it a tad much. There is an assassination or bomb practically every week. There isn’t a month that goes by without ppl dying violently from the insurgency. Thousands of people have died already. 
 July 8 - 4 killed in raid on insurgents https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2342487/four-insurgent-suspects-killed-in-three-days
May 26 - soldiers injured in shooting https://www.thaipbsworld.com/three-troopers-injured-in-insurgent-attack-in-tak-bai-wednesday-night/
The surveillance measures in the South are not reflective of the country as a whole. It is a war zone. Literally. They don’t protest down there, they bomb burn and shoot. 
The protests are by the Thais, who have a political stake and see themselves as having a voice. Not by the Muslims, who don’t. Conflating them is disingenuous bullshit. 
Other than that, pretty good report. There is a lot of unrest that they missed. The courts removing a PM for a cooking show, the Red Shirts shutting down the center of Bangkok, the Yellow Shirts seizing the airport for a week, the mass street protests that instigated the 2014 coup.  

https://citizenlab.ca/2022/07/geckospy-pegasus-spyware-used-against-thailands-pro-democracy-movement/

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Royotathon🚘 @Royotathon
Tree: so how do I eat?

God: you just absorb sunlight and-

Tree: I EAT THE SUN?!

God: well not exactly-

Tree: *expression darkening* I ᴀᴍ ᴛʜᴇ ᴇᴀᴛᴇʀ ᴏғ ʟɪɢʜᴛ. I ᴀᴍ ᴅᴀʀᴋɴᴇss ɪɴᴄᴀʀɴᴀᴛᴇ

God:

Angel: boss I’m just gonna go ahead and scrap tree legs.
6:32 PM ∙ Jul 27, 2020
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Fred Delicious @Fred_Delicious
soup was invented in 1927 by John Soup when he wanted to drink a chicken9:35 PM ∙ May 27, 2020
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Zeke Hausfather @hausfath
We often talk about climate change in terms of global averages, e.g. the world has warmed 1.2C since preindustrial. 

But no one lives in the global average; land areas have already warmed more than 1.8C on average, and many high latitude regions have already warmed more than 2C: 
5:03 PM ∙ Jul 17, 2022
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Bea_ker @bea_ker
No Mr Bean... I expect you to die5:01 AM ∙ Jan 9, 2020
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Wayne E. Lee @MilHist_Lee
A proclamation by cartoon of equal laws and equal status for Tasmanian indigenes.  A people who were systematically killed down to the last survivor. (Museum of archaeology innCambridge) 
9:59 AM ∙ Jul 18, 2022
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Kevin Beaumont @GossiTheDog
I still think bored people and Lol YOLOs should be on a lot of orgs threat models.7:04 AM ∙ Jul 18, 2022
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Iranian Cyber News @IranCyberNews
According to @IranIntl_En hackers working for the #IRGC have had their names released by a #hacktavist group
According to this information the hackers work for Naji Technology and Afkar Systems companies affiliated with the IRGC

#Cyber #Iran

iranintl.comHacktivist Group Reveals Identities Of Several IRGC HackersA hacking group has revealed the identities of several hackers working for the cyber division of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard (IRGC).11:17 AM ∙ Jul 18, 2022
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