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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
from AP piece:
“[Signal] … is not approved for carrying classified information. On March 14, one day before the strikes, the Defense Department cautioned personnel about the vulnerability of Signal, specifically that Russia was attempting to hack the app, according to a U.S. official who was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly and spoke on the condition of anonymity”
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GottaLaff@mstdn.social ("Laffy") wrote:
Keep 'em coming
" #Canada has barred #Tesla vehicles from being eligible for the country's electric vehicle rebate, citing the #Trump administration's "illegal U.S. #tariffs."
https://www.newsweek.com/tesla-canada-elon-musk-electric-cars-2050715
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SeanCasten ("Sean Casten") wrote:
There is absolutely no scenario where detailed timing about an impending US attack, in advance of that attack is not HIGHLY classified. Gabbard and Trump knowingly lied to the American people yesterday.
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EuromaidanPress ("Euromaidan Press") wrote:
Frontline report: Russian troops resort to Soviet civilian cars as Ukraine decimated over 10,000 tanks and 21,000 armored vehicles.
https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/03/26/frontline-report-russia-resorts-to-soviet-civilian-vehicles-as-ukraine-decimates-russian-armor/
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
from my sysadmin
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ProPublica@newsie.social wrote:
How Elon Musk’s SpaceX Secretly Allows Investment From China
—As a U.S. military contractor, SpaceX sees allowing Chinese ownership as fraught. But it will allow the investment if it comes through secrecy hubs like the Cayman Islands, court records say. “It is certainly a policy of obfuscation,” an expert said.
https://www.propublica.org/article/elon-musk-spacex-allows-china-investment-cayman-islands-secrecy?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social&utm%5Fcampaign=mastodon-post
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GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:
19 year old Mr Big Balls, who works for CISA now, has been involved in hijacking SIMs and SWATing FBI agents. CISA refused to comment.
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barrydeutsch.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Barry Deutsch") wrote:
Funny how informational security is so much less important to the NYTimes now than it was in late 2016.
Mastodon Feedadam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold") wrote:
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bagder ("daniel:// stenberg://") wrote:
The AI bots that desperately need OSS for code training, are now slowly killing OSS by overloading every site.
The curl website is now at 77TB/month, or 8GB every five minutes.
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briankrebs@infosec.exchange ("BrianKrebs") wrote:
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has released an open source project called Rayhunter. It is designed to run on an inexpensive (~$20) mobile hotspot and look for signs of mobile spying devices called cell-site simulators. Also known as Stingrays or IMSI catchers, they masquerade as legitimate cellphone towers, tricking phones w/in a certain radius into connecting to the device rather than a tower.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/meet-rayhunter-new-open-source-tool-eff-detect-cellular-spying
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ErikJonker ("Erik Jonker") wrote:
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StefanThinks@beige.party wrote:
An interesting thing about the war plan messages is how often they mention Biden and Europe, showing the decision wasn't about military necessity but about petty political grudges. It's like Mean Girls controlled bombs and assassination drones.
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icaria36@the.socialmusic.network wrote:
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
‘“The military ban is soaked in animus and dripping with pretext,” Judge Ana C. Reyes of U.S. District Court in Washington wrote in a scathing ruling last week.
“Its language is unabashedly demeaning, its policy stigmatizes transgender persons as inherently unfit and its conclusions bear no relation to fact,” she wrote in her decision temporarily blocking the ban. “Seriously? These were not off-the-cuff remarks at a cocktail party.” ‘
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
‘“Secretary Hegseth is trying to figure out where the president’s headed, and to run there ahead of him,” said Kori Schake, a national security expert at the American Enterprise Institute. But, she added, “he’s doing performative activities. He’s not yet demonstrated that he’s running the department.”’
AEI is not exactly filled with lefties
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
‘Across the military on Monday and Tuesday, current and retired troops and officers expressed dismay and anger in social media posts, secret chat groups and the hallways of the Pentagon.
“My father was killed in action flying night-trail interdiction over the Ho Chi Minh Trail” after a North Vietnamese strike, said the retired Maj. Gen. Paul D. Eaton, who served in the Iraq war. “And now, you have Hegseth…”’
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
this is why they are referred to as being a “Non Player Congress”… as NPCs, they have no role other than obeying their puppet-master.
this lack of desire to guard their powers under the Constitution is just not what the Founders of this country envisioned. when Congresscritters act as NPCs, dictatorship emerges.
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GottaLaff@mstdn.social ("Laffy") wrote:
Via Kyle Griffin:
NYT's David Sanger: "It is the timing that is critical: Had this information leaked out, the people the U.S. was targeting in Yemen would have had time to escape. And Hegseth’s reference to OPSEC — operational security — meant he was aware of the need for secrecy." https://tinyurl.com/9esj8trt
Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump's Advisers Shared on Signal.
https://tinyurl.com/f4f6mnb8
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
‘The Guardian is clear: we have no interest in being Donald Trump’s – or any politician’s – friend. Our allegiance as independent journalists is not to those in power but to the public. Whatever happens in the coming months and years, you can rely on the Guardian never to bow down to power, nor back down from truth.’
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
‘First, two news outlets pulled election endorsements at the behest of their billionaire owners. Next, prominent reporters bent the knee at Mar-a-Lago. And then a major network – ABC News – rolled over in response to Trump’s legal challenges and agreed to a $16m million settlement in his favor. ‘
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
statement on The Guardian:
‘As Trump himself observed: “The first term, everybody was fighting me. In this term, everybody wants to be my friend.”
He’s not entirely wrong. All around us, media organizations have begun to capitulate.’ [1/3]
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
‘Donald Trump, when asked on Tuesday about the leak, also said: “It wasn’t classified information.”
[…] At yesterday’s hearing, both the director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, and the CIA director, John Ratcliffe, who were participants in the Signal chat, said the leak contained no classified information.
Democrats will no doubt use today’s hearing to demand an explanation of how operational attack plans are not classified information.’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/26/trump-signal-leak-new-messages
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
academics are leaving the US like it was Germany in the 1930s. this is truly concerning.
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briankrebs@infosec.exchange ("BrianKrebs") wrote:
Reuters has a good follow on some of the reporting about Edward Coristine, a teenage DOGE staffer with years-long connections to the English-language cybercrime community known as the Com.
The story says Coristine ran a website operated by a group calling itself "EGodly":
"In 2023, EGodly boasted on its Telegram channel of hijacking phone numbers, breaking into unspecified law enforcement email accounts in Latin America and Eastern Europe, and cryptocurrency theft. Early that year, the group distributed the personal details of an FBI agent who they said was investigating them, circulating his phone number, photographs of his house, and other private details on Telegram.
EGodly also posted an audio recording of an obscene prank call made to the agent's phone and a video, shot from the inside of a car, of an unknown party driving by the agent's house in Wilmington, Delaware at night and screaming out the window, "EGodly says you're a bitch!""Reuters could not independently verify EGodly's boasts of cybercriminal activity, including its claims to have hijacked phone numbers or infiltrated law enforcement emails. But it was able to authenticate the video by visiting the same Wilmington address and comparing the building to the one in the footage."
"The FBI agent targeted by EGodly, who is now retired, told Reuters that the group had drawn law enforcement attention because of its connection to swatting, the dangerous practice of making hoax emergency calls to send armed officers swarming targeted addresses. The agent didn't go into detail. Reuters is not identifying him out of concern for further harassment."
"These are bad folks," the former agent said. "They're not a pleasant group."
My reporting on Coristine ties to the Com:
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/02/teen-on-musks-doge-team-graduated-from-the-com/
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
behavior which was juvenile, unprofessional, and dangerous to those actually “going in harm’s way”. this is not a game, children. grow the f*ck up.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:
There's one recent immigrant I'd like to see exiled.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/03/26/poor-martyn-iles/
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ErikJonker ("Erik Jonker") wrote:
"Nobody texted warplans" 😂 (Hegseth)
#signalgate #hegseth
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SteveFaulkner ("Steve Faulkner") wrote:
The Guardian has recreated a searchable climate future risk tool developed by Fema but then deleted
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
‘In 2023, Hegseth had his own critique of the Biden administration handling classified documents “flippantly”, remarking on Fox News that “If at the very top there’s no accountability”, then we have “two tiers of justice”.’