Andrew 🌻 Brandt πŸ‡

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Research and analysis about malware, network forensics, and the intersection of crime with anything that electrons or photons flow through.

Board member of World Cyber Health, the parent organization behind Malware Village and the NO-HAVOC project.

Docent of obsolete technology at @mediaarchaeologylab

Executive director, Elect More Hackers: electmorehackers.com

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Threat levelmostly harmless

The arguments behind every landmark Supreme Court ruling have never been freely available to the public… until now.

Thanks to a gift from the Wolf Law Library at William & Mary Law School, more than 125,000 #SCOTUS records & briefs are now freely freely available on the Internet Archive, spanning 1830 through 2019. The arguments that shaped America, including Brown v. Board of Education. Loving v. Virginia.

Read the full announcement ‡️
https://blog.archive.org/2026/04/20/u-s-supreme-court-records-and-briefs-the-arguments-that-shaped-america-now-freely-available/

#DemocracysLibrary

"There’s a lot of concern about privacy, about how much information of ours goes online, and some of that information is being fed into these addictive feeds that are part of the issue."
- Christopher Whitetaker to the Roundtable

#Privacy
#PrivacyFirst
#FirstAmendment
#FourthAmendment
#DigitalFreedom

Air to Ground Message:

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Area: Portsmouth, UK
Type: Boeing 777-300ER
A: #acef5136a47
F: #f58831346c3

#acars #vdlm2

IL HB 5511 #AgeVerification has drawn criticism from civil rights groups and technology experts like Stephen Ragan of ACLU #Illinois argued that mandating age gates β€œraises serious constitutional questions” while β€œthe root of the harms go unaddressed.” #Privacy #PrivacyFirst #DigitalFreedom

https://evanstonroundtable.com/2026/04/16/state-lawmakers-advance-bill-requiring-age-verification-on-all-online-devices-and-websites/

State lawmakers advance bill requiring age verification on all online devices and websites

The Illinois House of Representatives passed a bill Thursday that would require all internet-connected devices and platforms in the state to ask for and

Evanston RoundTable

@ramsey

What could be more Fedi than a rice cooker?

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Sorry vibecoders, the only "OpenClaw" I care about is the failed grappling claw the CIA built into the Hughes Glomar Explorer for their attempt to salvage the soviet submarine K-129 from the floor of the pacific ocean as the classified Project Azorian.
@bagder AI: the cause of, and solution to, all of Mozilla's problems.
Tim Cook's Legacy Is Turning Apple Into a Subscription

The soon-to-exit Apple CEO went all in on services. Now, the incoming CEO, John Ternus, will need to embrace the AI era.

WIRED

@threatresearch in a timely turn of events I recently became aware of @climatetown (Climate Town) on YouTube and Rollie produced a Right to Repair video which is very approachable. https://youtu.be/NG-lLt5X3Rs

I don't know if that's something legislators would actually watch and respond to.

Your Single Use iPhone

YouTube

πŸ΄β€β˜ οΈ Colorado's "wrong to repair" bill #SB26090 advances the state senate, on a vote of 22-13.

#COpolitics #RightToRepair #Infosec