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Wow! Big news today!
Soon Discord messages will be indexable on Google. If you're in a public Discord which is discoverable, and has not changed its privacy settings, any messages posted moving forward can be found from search engines!
Hooray!!!!!1 (I think this is very bad)
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New: we got leaked audio of Flock's CEO speaking at a police conference. He said backlash to Flock isn't real (said it's bots and paid protesters; no evidence); his wife told him to never apologize; and he may never do media interviews again. Listen: 404media.co/in-leaked-audio-…
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I think I just had one of the best times of my life this weekend at Bradley University. No joke. Yesterday page right. Today page left.
I am burning to tell you all about it! It was the best adventure I've gone on for this show yet. I'm going to be buzzing about it for days. gah. still can't believe what this group of students in the left photo did tonight.
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💥 New Episode 💥
EP 181: Ricky
Imagine out of nowhere, your phone loses signal. No calls, no data, nothing. This week, Ricky Handschumacher shares how he learned to slip into strangers’ phones and rummage through them for anything he thought was valuable.
darknetdiaries.com/episode/1…
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NEW @citizenlab report We uncovered an Israeli firm using online ads to run vast spy operation
This is the first-ever public confirmation of zero-click mercenary spyware delivered via targeted ads.
45 devices at @AJEnglish confirmed infected
citizenlab.ca/research/how-d…
Sean Powers retweeted
Why is this not a Netflix series yet?
@lowpodcast
@JackRhysider I've been a long time listener and recommender of @DarknetDiaries.
LOW is a new HIGH!
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GitHub is banning the people who study malware while its own users are getting hit by supply chain attacks.
Deleting the source code doesn't stop a single attacker, it only blinds the defenders who protect us.
Hello
Unfortunately, @GitHub has banned us. They have orbital nuked the entire malware source code collection.
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New Episode Alert!
EP 180: Conti
Most hackers quietly fade away. #Conti did not. How did one of the most feared ransomware gangs collapse in the messiest, most public way possible?
darknetdiaries.com/episode/1…
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Ola Bini (ep 163) has been emergency deported from Ecuador. He has returned to Sweden. He's not sure why. But was unable to bring anything with him from the home he lived in for a decade. If you haven't heard his story go listen. It's harrowing darknetdiaries.com/episode/1…
Sean Powers retweeted
LOW just passed 100,000 downloads. But it's still real early. Most of my listeners/followers/friends/family/pets has not listened yet. It's time to jump in. Now is the time to feel more human than ever.
thisislow.com
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Need a perspective change on life? Listen to LOW.
I’ve been listening to LOW since yesterday, and I must say, it’s really changing my perception of what it means to actually live. This is the lifelong lesson I think I really need at this point in my life. @JackRhysider, you really put in a lot of good work piecing this together.
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New: from 404 Media. The catastrophic FBI hack also exposed the FBI's own hacking unit. The Remote Operations Unit is a highly secretive part of the FBI, responsible for making tools to break into peoples' devices. Some of their names are in the data 404media.co/fbi-hack-exposed…
Sean Powers retweeted
The time has come!
I've made a new podcast, and it's ready for everyone to listen to!
It's called LOW. It's a 5 part series about the weight of being, and the wreckage of waking up.
It's available in all podcast players right now, free. Just search for LOW or go to thisislow.com.
Hi .@codybrown just sent you a DM. Working on a story and would love to talk to you re: SIM Swapping attack in 2017.
RT @cnnbrk: Germany's far-right AfD party set to win in eastern state election but it's unclear if the result would be enough to govern, ex…
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New episode!
EP 179: The Courthouse - Revisited
The epic story of two penetration testers in the Iowa courthouse has a new ending to their story! Listen to this updated version of the episode from 2020.
darknetdiaries.com/episode/1…
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scoop: Reporters from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg have been barred from next week's G20 meeting in Asheville, N.C.
nytimes.com/2026/08/29/busin…
Sean Powers retweeted
I spoke with Andy Yen, CEO of Proton, which has encrypted the daily online work/comms a hundred million-plus people.
We talked in particular about Proton's surprising embrace of AI tools. Yen says "AI is surveillance." He also says it's "unavoidable."
wired.com/story/the-big-inte…
