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October 30, 2021

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H I Sutton @CovertShores
***UPDATE*** Now beyond any reasonable doubt that the type of surface drones used by #Ukraine to attack Russian Navy in Sevastopol today were same as one previous found near the base. #OSINT Reference navalnews.com/naval-news/202… And hisutton.com/Ukraines-New-E…
Ukraine attack on Sevastopol
2:04 PM ∙ Oct 29, 2022
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Matthew Green @matthew_d_green
I wrote a (long!) post about “One-Time Programs”, what they are, and some new work that tries to make them work on commodity hardware like your iPhone.
blog.cryptographyengineering.comOne-Time ProgramsOne of the things I like to do on this blog is write about new research that has a practical angle. Most of the time (I swear) this involves writing about other folks’ research: it’s no…
2:53 PM ∙ Oct 28, 2022
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Alex Plaskett @alexjplaskett
I got asked the other day if there are any advice for those wanting to get more into vuln research. Off the top of my head I didn’t give a great answer! So here’s 5 things now I have actually thought more about it more:
4:13 PM ∙ Oct 29, 2022
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Dan Trombly @stcolumbia
A breach of a Prime Minister's phone by hostile intelligence services is a huge information security concern. Consequently, security experts recommend changing your Prime Minister every 6 weeks to limit your vulnerability to these types of attacks
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The Mail+ @mailplus
EXCLUSIVE: Truss phone hacked by Putin spies for top secret information https://t.co/sASbS7kEVH via @mailplus
4:20 PM ∙ Oct 29, 2022
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The Register @TheRegister
RIP: Kathleen Booth, the inventor of assembly language
reg.cxRIP: Kathleen Booth, the inventor of assembly languageBuilder and programmer of the ARC and SEC turned 100 this year
8:10 AM ∙ Oct 29, 2022
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Paddy Raff @paddyraffcomedy
Footage of that time BBC2 mistakenly dubbed over Gomez Addams’ voice in a 1989 repeat of The Addams Family because of Thatcher’s voice restrictions
8:17 PM ∙ Oct 25, 2022
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Gomez Addams was never in the IRA.

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Donie O'Sullivan @donie
The man with possibly the toughest job at Twitter right now is @yoyoel He has to explain to the world’s richest man that a lot of the seemingly new novels moderation ideas he has for the company he just bought are just what Twitter has been trying to do for years.
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Yoel Roth @yoyoel
Let’s talk for a minute about slurs, hateful conduct, and trolling campaigns. Bottom line up front: Twitter’s policies haven’t changed. Hateful conduct has no place here. And we’re taking steps to put a stop to an organized effort to make people think we have.
5:14 AM ∙ Oct 30, 2022
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Stock Android. For natsec

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Lukasz Olejnik @lukOlejnik
Suspicion that smartphone of UK foreign secretary Liz Truss (later prime minister) was hacked by Russia, with arms shipment data to Ukraine among the stolen information. This sounds incredibly serious. theguardian.com/technology/202…
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8:18 PM ∙ Oct 29, 2022
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Rob Taylor @roblucastaylor
I went with something truly chilling this year.
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5:18 PM ∙ Oct 29, 2022
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Hunt Forward in practice

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-63328398

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The Hacker's Choice @hackerschoice
Some technical details on China running the Great Firewall of Iran as a service:
github.comChina probes on Iran VPS after GFI piercing · hackerschoice/iran-ssh-proxy WikiDocker Server Side for the Iran Proxy . Contribute to hackerschoice/iran-ssh-proxy development by creating an account on GitHub.
9:50 AM ∙ Oct 30, 2022
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Electrospaces @electrospaces
When Liz Truss was still British foreign secretary, her personal cell phone was apparently hacked by Russian intelligence After this was discovered she changed her phone number and the heavily compromised phone was forensically examined in a secure cage
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10:50 AM ∙ Oct 30, 2022
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