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Ok, first and foremost - an Amber alert, I hope it all works out and the kids are all safe. And I get the need to disseminate information as quickly as possible.
Secondly, I have many feelings about a government alert being broadcast to phones containing a bitly link to an X [dot] com post. The X post, is not accessible if you are not logged in to X/Twitter.
We desperately need to decouple our government departments and agencies from commercial entities when it comes to Crisis communications. This, in my opinion, is pretty unacceptable.
Hey, folks. There's some lists going around of US Senator's official phone numbers. Some of it's like ... blurry screenshots of a PDF.
You can find the official information here: https://www.senate.gov/senators/
If you would prefer to find that information without going to a .gov site (and who can blame you), I've already done the annoying work for you. I'll reply to this post (Unlisted) with 20 senators at a time, sorted by state.
Call Chuck Schumer's Washington D.C. office and let him know exactly how you feel.
Phone: (202) 224-6542.
The office opens at 9 am.
Flood his office and make this hashtag trend.
Thanks to everyone in the fediverse who has favorited, boosted, and reached out to me supportively over the injunction and takedown order that I wouldn't comply with (overview: https://infosec.exchange/@PogoWasRight/114110520940142405)
Special thanks to @zackwhittaker for reporting about it all on #TechCrunch:
#databreach #HCRG #ransomware #incident_response #injunction
Here's my post on the court injunction my site got hit with: HCRG Care's lawyers claimed an injunction issued in a "private" hearing required us to remove two posts. We didn't comply. HCRG Care was represented by the Pinsent Masons law firm in the UK in this matter. The injunction was issued by the High Court of Justice, King's Bench Division, Media and Communications List by the Honorable Mr. Justice Soole. Pinsent Mason's attempt to get my web host to remove my posts also failed. As always, I feel blessed to have the legal support of Covington and Burling's Kurt Wimmer Pro Media Freedom Initiative, which has represented my site pro bono for the last 16 years. Read about the letter, the injunction, and why the High Court's over-reaching injunction endangers UK journalists and doesn't serve the public well. https://databreaches.net/2025/03/05/hcrg-cares-lawyers-claimed-an-injunction-issued-in-a-private-hearing-required-us-to-remove-two-posts-we-didnt-comply/ Oh, and I'm not the only one ignoring the injunction. Medusa also got served with the injunction via tox chat, they tell me. And like other injunctions they have received, they are ignoring it. So what has HCRG really accomplished? #databreach #ransomware #Medusa #transparency #censorship #pressfreedom #injunction #FirstAmendment @zackwhittaker@mastodon.social @campuscodi@mastodon.social @lawrenceabrams @iainthomson@mastodon.social @amvinfe @lawfare @freedomofpress@freedom.press
What's the most common feedback/comment I've received over the past month? "I used to like reading your stuff when you didn't write about politics all the time."
My response: Me too. But they've left me no choice at this point. If you think tech isn't politics and vice versa, you probably don't believe national security and cybersecurity are two sides of the same coin, either.
So it turns out the geniuses over at Bluesky trust the client app to fetch, and honestly report, webpage metadata for preview cards, so with a little tinkering in the debug tools you can post whatever news stories you like and they look exactly the same as real ones.
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