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Certified Blue Team Cybersecurity Enthusiast.

"Before you toot, ask yourself: Is it kind, is it necessary, is it true, does it improve the silence?"

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BrianKrebsFeb 23

Really enjoyed this scoop from the Financial Times, where a team of reporters identified 48 seemingly independent companies working from different physical addresses that appear to be operating together to disguise the origin of Russian oil, particularly from Kremlin-controlled Rosneft. The kicker: The network was discovered because they all share a single private email server.

From the (paywalled) story:

"The FT was able to identify 442 web domains whose public registrations show they all use a single private server for their email, “mx.phoenixtrading.ltd”, showing that they share back-office functions."

"The FT was then able to identify companies by comparing the names in the domain to those of entities that appear in Russian and Indian customs records as involved in carrying Russian oil."

"For example, Foxton FZCO, a Dubai-based entity listed as the buyer of $5.6bn of oil in Russian export filings, matches “foxton-fzco.com”. Similarly, Advan Alliance, an entity listed in Indian filings as having sold $1.5bn of Russian oil into the country, can be linked to “advanalliance.ltd”. "

"Filings linked by the FT to the domain list show oil exports from Russia amounting to more than $90bn."

https://www.ft.com/content/4310f010-2b3c-493e-ba0a-26dc6d156b2e

Email blunder exposes $90bn Russian oil smuggling ring

Apparent network of companies using same server includes little-known group that has become country’s largest oil exporter

Financial Times
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Steve BellovinFeb 21
My reaction to https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116105214098438914 is to quote West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette (319 U.S. 624): "If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein." And that was a *wartime* ruling.
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Patrick C Miller Feb 21
Man Opposing Data Center Arrested for Speaking Slightly Too Long https://www.404media.co/man-opposing-data-center-arrested-for-speaking-slightly-too-long/
Man Opposing Data Center Arrested for Speaking Slightly Too Long

An Oklahoma man tried to talk about a data center coming to his community. Police arrested him when he went a few seconds over his time limit.

404 Media
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Electronic Frontier FoundationFeb 18
EFF’s Executive Director Cindy Cohn is releasing a new book, Privacy’s Defender, chronicling her thirty-year battle protecting our digital privacy. RSVP for the launch party for Privacy’s Defender today! https://www.eff.org/event/privacys-defender-book-launch-party
Privacy's Defender: Book Launch Party

On Thursday, March 12th, celebrate the launch of Privacy's Defender by EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn. The highly anticipated book asks the fundamental question: Can we still have private conversations if we live our lives online?Join the festivities for a live conversation between Cindy Cohn...

Electronic Frontier Foundation
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Kim ZetterFeb 17

When a hacker who goes by the names "Waifu" and "Judische" began posting death threats against security researcher Allison Nixon, she had no idea why he targeted her. So she set out to unmask him. The quest led her to uncover the identity of Connor Riley Moucka, a 25-yr-old Canadian who was ringleader of the infamous Snowflake/AT&T hacks as well as Cameron John Wagenius (aka Kiberphant0m
online), an active-duty US Army soldier, who both were arrested. Here's my story, as well as a free link below that.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/16/1132526/allison-nixon-hackers-security-researcher

https://archive.is/20260216131016/https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/16/1132526/allison-nixon-hackers-security-researcher

Hackers made death threats against this security researcher. Big mistake.

Allison Nixon had helped arrest dozens of members of The Com — a loose affiliation of online groups responsible for violence and hacking campaigns. Then she became a target.

MIT Technology Review
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AdfichterFeb 17

I guess the message of this video is very clear...

Apashe & Alina Pash - Kyiv

https://youtu.be/uIfqSTBTJXQ?si=6c3oTCi9sMyzBKvy

Apashe & Alina Pash - Kyiv

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Show threadAkaSci 🛰️Feb 15

Wave-particle ambigram by Douglas Hofstadter.

An ambigram is a calligraphic composition of glyphs (letters, numbers, symbols or other shapes) that can yield different meanings depending on the orientation of observation. Although the concept is older, the term "ambigram" was coined by Douglas Hofstadter in 1983–1984.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambigram
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Recht auf Stadt FreiburgFeb 11
"die Häuser denen, die drin wohnen" - das ist die Idee hinter dem Mietshäuser Syndikat. Was halten Sie von diesem Konzept? https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/info/oekonom-fuhrhop-unsichtbarer-wohnraum-bietet-enorme-reserven,wohnen-124.html?utm_source=firefox-newtab-de-de
Ökonom Fuhrhop: "Unsichtbarer Wohnraum bietet enorme Reserven"

In vielen Wohnungen stehen Zimmer oder ganze Etagen leer. Der Ökonom und Wohnraumexperte Daniel Fuhrhop erklärt im Interview bei NDR Info, welche Rolle dieser ungenutzte Wohnraum bei der Lösung der Wohnungsnot spielen kann und welche Anreize die Politik dafür setzen sollte.

ndr.de
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Just read an interesting #AI article.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/12/1132811/whats-next-for-chinese-open-source-ai/

"Necessity is the mother of invention" the saying goes. Maybe we should reflect on the many nuanced meanings of necessity, it doesn't just mean that there is a need, necessity can suggest reduced resources (penury, poorness), and it is this kind of necessity that drove the PC revolution in the 80s.

It looks like the lack of necessity for the US tech concerns is causing a serious lack of innovation. They claim to be at the cutting edge, but with endless financial resources there seems no true pressure to innovate.

The Chinese are working from a "do more with less" position and combined with their investment in academia it seems to be paying off.

Restrictions on tech exports to #China is, I'd guess, likely only to increase innovation there.

Interesting times.

What’s next for Chinese open-source AI

Chinese open models are spreading fast, from Hugging Face to Silicon Valley. Here’s why that matters.

MIT Technology Review
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Patrick C Miller Feb 14
What’s next for Chinese open-source AI https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/12/1132811/whats-next-for-chinese-open-source-ai/
What’s next for Chinese open-source AI

Chinese open models are spreading fast, from Hugging Face to Silicon Valley. Here’s why that matters.

MIT Technology Review