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Happy Presidents Day.

Two weeks ago, the CIA shut down the World Factbook - a public
domain reference on every country, used by 6 million people
monthly since 1997.

We built a replacement:
https://openfactbook.org

261 countries · Instant search · Country comparisons

Public data should stay public.

#OpenData #CivicTech #OpenSource #PresidentsDay
#PublicDomain #DataRescue

OpenFactBook - World Factbook Alternative | Country Data & Statistics

The community-maintained successor to the CIA World Factbook. Free comprehensive data on 260+ countries: geography, demographics, government, economy, and more.

Quick BADBOOL updates: new opt-out link for Fast People Search, remove Ofsearch, and added info about California’s Delete Request and Opt-Out (DROP) portal. https://github.com/yaelwrites/Big-Ass-Data-Broker-Opt-Out-List
Must read article from Zeke Faux about Justin Sun, the guy who paid Trump $75M to get an SEC investigation against him dropped so he could continue to run his money laundering operation. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-09-26/crypto-billionaire-justin-sun-went-from-pariah-to-trump-moneyman
New post up on Substack: I wrote about why frames beat facts, and why this Administration relies so heavily on “Files” dumps to shape reality & feed the base 🍽🧟‍♂️ The Twitter Files model is now foundational for MAGA. open.substack.com/pub/agentsof... (If you prefer Ghost, signup @ reneediresta.com)
Someone forgot to take down this webpage: www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/v...
Senators @shaheen.senate.gov and @warren.senate.gov roll out report showing how Trump has let up pressure on Russia. www.banking.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
"Kash Patel, the F.B.I. director, and other Trump allies have declared that a newly declassified report on the Russia investigation provides 'evidence that the Clinton campaign plotted to frame President Trump and fabricate the Russia collusion hoax.' The reality is almost precisely the opposite."

Durham’s Debunking of the ‘Cli...
Durham’s Debunking of the ‘Clinton Plan’ Emails, Explained

Trump allies have fixated on a purported message about Hillary Clinton and Russia. John H. Durham, the special counsel, found evidence that it was likely a fake assembled by Russian spies.

The New York Times

A welcome surprise from the NY Times' most relentless normalizer of extremism, Peter Baker: an "analysis" that calls the Trump regime's war on reality what it is, albeit more politely than the regime deserves.

https://archive.ph/Ss3Pj

DNI Tulsi Gabbard retweets Roger Stone praising her on Alex Jones. (Read that sentence, IC ppl in Five Eyes) Roger Stone was in direct contact w/the GRU hackers who dropped the Clinton emails, just to be clear. He knows full well whose campaign Russia reached out to. These people are brazen liars.
#BREAKING #ESETresearch can confirm the news of #Lumma Stealer's revival. ESET telemetry and botnet tracking show that operators are rebuilding their infrastructure, with their renewed activity reaching similar levels to those before the #disruption in May 2025.
Lumma Stealer operators are registering dozens of new domains weekly, resolving them primarily at nameservers located in RU. As seen with other threats in the past, this can complicate future attempts to disrupt its malicious operations.
In partnership with #Microsoft and other allies, ESET is tracking Lumma Stealer activity and continues to partially disrupt its operations, specifically by targeting its #Steam dead drop resolvers.
While ESET telemetry shows new Lumma Stealer builds weekly, their codebase hasn’t changed much since the takedown attempt. This suggests that the attackers had to focus on operational recovery instead of innovation.
C&C data show reduced activity around the disruption (marked in turquoise) but the number of new samples detected per day has seen only minimal changes, highlighting the continual risk.
For more info on Lumma Stealer and the disruption, read our blogpost from a few weeks back https://www.welivesecurity.com/en/eset-research/eset-takes-part-global-operation-disrupt-lumma-stealer/