Against the background of Trump officials weighing whether to release the sealed “Epstein files” and speculation over a potential pardon, the correspondence positions Maxwell not only as Epstein’s fixer but someone who has long worked to secure her standing with… Read More "Jeffrey Epstein’s Yahoo Inbox Revealed"
A trove of internal documents leaked from a little-known Chinese company has pulled back the curtain on how digital censorship tools are being marketed and exported globally. Geedge Networks sells what amounts to a commercialized “Great Firewall” to at least… Read More "How China’s Propaganda and Surveillance Systems Really Operate"
The report highlights the central role that these resellers and brokers play, stating that it is “a notably under-researched set of actors.” According to the report, “These entities act as intermediaries, obscuring the connections between vendors, suppliers, and buyers. Oftentimes,… Read More "US Investment in Spyware Is Skyrocketing"
After a quarter century defending digital rights, Cindy Cohn announced on Tuesday that she is stepping down as executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Cohn, who has led the San Francisco–based nonprofit since 2015, says she will leave the… Read More "Cindy Cohn Is Leaving the EFF, but Not the Fight for Digital Rights"
A first-of-its-kind marketplace rolled out on Tuesday offering free and discounted privacy and security services to America’s 23 million current and former public servants. The initiative is supported by the Public Service Alliance (PSA), a nonprofit group that says it… Read More "A New Platform Is Launching to Protect Public Servants From an Angry Mob"
“I’m looking over my shoulder driving home,” a doctor whose hospital was targeted by a subpoena told the Post. Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem has temporarily moved into secure military housing after the location of her Washington, DC, apartment was… Read More "US Government Seeks Medical Records of Trans Youth"
A leak of more than 100,000 documents shows that a little-known Chinese company has been quietly selling censorship systems seemingly modeled on the Great Firewall to governments around the world. Geedge Networks, a company founded in 2018 that counts the… Read More "Massive Leak Shows How a Chinese Company Is Exporting the Great Firewall to the World"
The Biden administration considered spyware used to hack phones controversial enough that it was tightly restricted for US government use in an executive order signed in March 2024. In Trump’s no-holds-barred effort to empower his deportation force—already by far the… Read More "ICE Has Spyware Now | WIRED"
“There are limitations to what we can see with this data, but what we have so far is accurate,” says Heintz. “If anything, I think it’s undercounting the scale of the problem.” The data the researchers obtained is only a… Read More "493 Cases of Sextortion Against Children Linked to Notorious Scam Compounds"
As legal cannabis has expanded around the United States for both recreational and medical use, companies have amassed troves of data about customers and their transactions. People who have applied for medical marijuana cards have had to share particularly personal… Read More "Highly Sensitive Medical Cannabis Patient Data Exposed by Unsecured Database"
