May 1, 2022

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May 01, 2022

The Ukrainian volunteer cyber army is possibly the worst thing to happen for Ukrainian cyber security since the 2015 electrical grid hack. They are providing almost no operational benefit to the Ukrainian war effort, while simultaneously forcing the Russians into a more secure cyber posture.

ACAB.

Ukraine is doing the partisan thing, only it’s behind Russian borders, not just lines.

Great thread on drones equipped with grenades and bombs as the new snipers.

America, fuck yeah!

Some interesting findings about the diets of early medieval elites.

Jailbreak kindle. Exploits here

Some handy helpers for hacking

Coverage on how the intelligence war fed the hot war.

Strong signalling happening these days. Pelosi and a bunch of senators went to meet Zelensky in Kyiv.

Ignorant legislation about data retention ends up targeting privacy services. News at 11.

Woah

Apparently Russian troll farms are a thing? Who knew??

Here’s the takedown thread by a skeptical journalist.

Here’s part of the story I thought was worth extracting.

Activities on Twitter and Facebook were detected, but were found to be particularly concentrated on Instagram, YouTube and TikTok. A key role in the network is said to be performed by a Telegram channel called “Cyber Front Z”, with the letter Z signifying Russian support for the war.

(I’ll be honest, the fact that Russia is also using a telegram channel to control a crowd of ppl is a datapoint on organization in cyber conflict.)

Here is the dumb ass story:

The school of elicitation.

This is a good video on how user interface and human factors impact security.

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