May 7, 2022

FSB counterintelligence is a bit of an institutional embarrassment these days, quite frankly.

Quick reminder that Tencent is a huge company that owns all the games. Like, all of them. If there’s a gaming company you know of, tencent owns it.

The Glasshouse Session of May 6th, 2022 has been uploaded to YouTube already.

Privacy info.

An older post, but interesting

https://www.lawfareblog.com/how-do-you-spy-when-world-shut-down

Talk on: “data-driven cyber security, great power competition in technology, values, and national security @RUSI_org.”

Reflections on “dark arts” of statecraft

Quite a neat little implementation of the “dd to /proc/${pid}/mem” trick

https://github.com/arget13/DDexec

This will be very interesting.

Details here:

https://www.troopers.de/troopers22/talks/7cv8pz/

Administrivia:

I will be somewhat unavailable for this week, May 8-14. The news letter will be lighter than usual, or maybe I’ll do a digest every other day. Normal operations will resume on the 14th, so please times with me in these unusually trying bears. --gq