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- April 18, 2023
April 18, 2023
April 18, 2023
Newly released from the National Reconnaissance Office … a declassified memo comparing the number of Soviet and US reconnaissance satellites.
— Aaron Bateman (@aaronbateman22)
2:35 PM • Apr 17, 2023
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Johnny Mnemonic (1981).
— Juan Tapiador (@0xjet)
7:56 AM • Apr 17, 2023
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A lie can go halfway round the world while the truth sits behind a paywall.
— Matthew Green (@matthew_d_green)
12:20 PM • Apr 17, 2023
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This is a really interesting change. It'll be interesting to see if the focus over the coming months moves from DDoS / disruptive focus to access enablement.
(Source ref: )
— Silas (@silascutler)
2:20 PM • Apr 17, 2023
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In one conversation, captured on an0m, a group of traffickers in Australia and Southeast Asia, including Hakan Ayik—the kingpin who became an early adopter of the network—discussed using a yacht to sail five hundred kilograms of cocaine from Barranquilla, Colombia, to a spot a hundred miles off the coast of “Lor.” This was shorthand for “Lord of the Rings,” meaning New Zealand. (The police investigators also noted that the texts referred to Australia as “Order,” suggesting a mischievous play on words: “Lor and Order.”)
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This is very cool: it has become a lot easier to read academic research.
If you open a paper in Microsoft Edge (I know, I know), the Bing AI sidebar can read the PDF and you can ask it questions about the paper. (I checked & the results seem high-quality, but be careful with AI) http
— Ethan Mollick (@emollick)
9:42 PM • Apr 17, 2023
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Our position remains clear. We will not back down on providing private, safe communications. Today, we join with other encrypted messengers pushing back on the UK's flawed Online Safety Bill.
— Signal (@signalapp)
12:13 AM • Apr 18, 2023
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ALPHV ransomware group appears frustrated with Western Digital
— vx-underground (@vxunderground)
1:39 AM • Apr 18, 2023
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