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Don't worry if you missed my @npub1cdr3...a4pr talk this year, you can watch the recording of Not Your Private Army: On the Trail of Cyber Ops online

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Not Your Private Army: On the Trail of Cyber Ops

During the past two decades, hacktivist spaces have been infiltrated and co-opted by hostile interests, ranging from state actors to political and ...

Val Broeksmit was an FBI informant who tried to entrap me and frame me as Phineas Fisher. Along the way, he tried to hack and inform on his enemies, journalists and Epstein. This is his story.

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Val Broeksmit: A Comically Tragic Spy

Val Broeksmit was a source for and antagonist of the FBI, Congress, FusionGPS, The New York Times, DDoSecrets, and many other journalists.

I see "PACER hack" and hope RECAP would be getting loaded up - but no, it's much worse https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/06/federal-court-filing-system-pacer-hack-00496916

I've just been told that John Young of Cryptome.org passed away last week. #Cryptome was foundational, and a predecessor to organizations like @npub1dp6g...xtp6 and #Wikileaks. RIP, John.

People need to be more alarmed that the United States has started permanently banning trans foreign travelers from entering the country

I think about this every day.

Teslas are gender neutral restrooms

It's cool that everyone's examining the alleged shooter's social media history like the amateur web detectives they always make fun of, while simultaneously giving themselves bread and a circus to divert from the discussion about healthcare being horribly broken Good job folks

Don't destroy the records in bases throughout Syria - seize them. Publish them. Open the servers up. Assad has documented his crimes. Let the world see.

Periodic reminder that there is no centralized filtering on Mastodon. If you replace letters in text, you're not sneaking padt corporate censorship - you're evading (violating) people's personal filters.