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June 1, 2022

June 1, 2022

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James Vincent @jjvincent
I’m sorry but I couldn’t resist: since I’ve just written a whole book on the subject, I want to talk about the history of anti-metric sentiment — how it connects to political power, republicanism, the French revolution, conspiracy theories, and Brexit. A THREAD:
1:20 PM ∙ May 29, 2022
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Fallout from the NSO scandal in Spain.

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Alex Gantman @againsthimself
"Spain will "strengthen judicial control" over its secret services in the wake of a scandal over the hacking of the mobile phones of top politicians, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said Thursday."
i24news.tvSpain to reform secret services after NSO spying scandal - I24NEWSThe affair has sparked a crisis between Sanchez’s minority government and the Catalan separatist party ERC - Click the link for more details.
4:26 PM ∙ May 31, 2022
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Lolol. The 0day that keeps on giving,

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Bacco @0xBacco
Follina P2? Wget the html payload as user = auto execute???
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11:31 AM ∙ May 31, 2022
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And it’s being used by Chinese threat actors to go after the Tibetan diaspora.

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Threat Insight @threatinsight
TA413 CN APT spotted ITW exploiting the #Follina #0Day using URLs to deliver Zip Archives which contain Word Documents that use the technique. Campaigns impersonate the "Women Empowerments Desk" of the Central Tibetan Administration and use the domain tibet-gov.web[.]app
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5:25 PM ∙ May 31, 2022
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Computers were a mistake.

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Giannis Daras @giannis_daras
DALLE-2 has a secret language. "Apoploe vesrreaitais" means birds. "Contarra ccetnxniams luryca tanniounons" means bugs or pests. The prompt: "Apoploe vesrreaitais eating Contarra ccetnxniams luryca tanniounons" gives images of birds eating bugs. A thread (1/n)🧵
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5:44 PM ∙ May 31, 2022
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Paper here

https://giannisdaras.github.io/publications/Discovering_the_Secret_Language_of_Dalle.pdf

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Jay 🇯🇲 @jjaayy_____
I’m definitely on the train with a supervillain…
1:25 PM ∙ May 2, 2022
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🦕pat.🦕 @patsatweetin
One of the worst coincidences in history has to be the first time it rained after a guy got thrown into a volcano.
12:36 PM ∙ May 31, 2022
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Max Smeets, is waxing cyberical about 0day sales and stuff. He paints a more dire picture than the reality, I believe. There are many ways that ecosystems can and do mitigate the bad faith actions he describes.

https://www.cfr.org/blog/risks-managing-purchased-cyber-arsenal

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RCE over radio

https://www.coalfire.com/the-coalfire-blog/hacking-ham-radio-winaprs-part-5

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Jerry Gamblin @JGamblin
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3:04 PM ∙ May 31, 2022
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Vegard Nossum @vegard_no
Not sure if this is widely known, but you can go to storage.googleapis.com/syzkaller/cove… and click on any file and line in the kernel that syzkaller/syzbot knows how to reach and it will give you the smallest testcase that reaches it.
Screenshot of syzkaller coverage website
7:59 PM ∙ May 30, 2022
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Ukraine cyber attack against Russia — hijacked BGP routes for the major Russian telcos. Nice! (h/t @campuscodi)

In Russian but google translate does a good job.

https://www.vedomosti.ru/technology/articles/2022/05/30/924358-kiev-printsip-kiberatak

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Autocorrect changed lol to LOL. Calm the fuck down autocorrect, I'm not even really laughing.
7:03 PM ∙ Aug 1, 2017
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I got nothing.

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Emily A. @emzorbit
Man who was open carrying his rifle at the grocery store was robbed at gunpoint of his rifle. He went to his car to retrieve another gun. A shoot-out ensued. Bystanders were injured. ksdk.com
ksdk.comSuspect, 2 bystanders injured in shootout outside St. Louis County grocery storePolice said a man was robbed of his rifle, and then grabbed another gun and began shooting at the alleged robber.
6:24 PM ∙ May 31, 2022
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Delightful thread.

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine
Lee Merlin, Miss Atomic Bomb, 1957.
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5:33 PM ∙ Apr 7, 2018
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Possibly of interest to those who like avant-garde cinema. Possibly…

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UbuWeb @ubuweb
Craig Baldwin, "Spectres of the Spectrum" (1999, 16mm color & b/w sound, 93 mins.). Comprised entirely of found footage, a feature-length film utilizing old 'kinescopes' to create an eerie, haunted "media-archaeology" zone for a sci-fi time-travel tale: ubu.com/film/baldwin_s…
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7:32 PM ∙ May 31, 2022
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This is a great talk.

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Jerry Gamblin @JGamblin
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3:04 PM ∙ May 31, 2022
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Phillips P. OBrien @PhillipsPOBrien
A fascinating story about Ukrainian ‘unicorn’ soldiers, members of the LGBTQ community. One thing this war has revealed, which needs constant reinforcement, is that a more united, tolerant, inclusive country leads to greater military effectiveness. nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna3…
8:27 AM ∙ Jun 1, 2022
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I never thought about the history of musical instruments that much. This is really amazing

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Musical Instruments @met_musical
Serpent, ca. 1810 #musicalinstruments #themet metmuseum.org/art/collection…
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1:04 AM ∙ May 27, 2022
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