Always on the most beautiful road, not the shortest one.
Four distributors of the encrypted communications service Sky ECC, used extensively by criminals, were arrested in Spain and the Netherlands.
I'm working on several stories about some important evolutions in cybercrime, but it's been really hard to dedicate time and attention to those with the current administration creating constitutional challenges almost on a daily basis, and doing all kinds of things that will surely weaken the cybersecurity and national security of this country.
But I can't even visit LinkedIn anymore, because I just want to vomit when I see the endless stream of people in the tech industry whistling dixie and pimping their businesses like nothing's going on. Like any of that matters if you don't have a democracy anymore.
Anyway, it's frustrating because this all out, constant assault on the checks and balances to executive power has the added benefit to our adversaries of turning our attention inward, and paying far less attention to external threats.
Meta is now valued at $1.8 trillion.
Mark Zuckerberg is the world's second richest person. Yet Mark authorized stealing books and other media to train AI. He says an individual's work such as books or videos doesn’t matter. Then why did you steal them? Meta also removed fact-checkers and enabled attacks on minorities and ended DEI policies. Meta just announced firing 3,600 employees. You are 2nd richest person with zero moral compass.