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March 8, 2022
Shortly after it was becoming clear Israeli malware manufacturer NSO Group was a troubling company selling to troubling governments (but before its odiousness hit critical mass last summer), the FBI took a meeting with NSO and test drove a bespoke exploit. It was a variant of NSO's uber-powerful Pegasus malware -- one that bypassed NSO's…
March 8, 2022
Posts about exploits written by Tim Cushing and Techdirt
March 8, 2022
Apple's announcement that it was suing Israeli malware purveyor NSO Group for targeting iPhone users was coupled with another, equally dismaying (I mean, for NSO…) announcement: it would be informing targets of malware anytime it detected a suspected intrusion. Actually, this may be more of a concern for NSO's customers. After all, they're still paying…
March 7, 2022
The federal government would prefer information not want quite so badly to be free. It has obligations under the Freedom of Information Act to set information free, but it also has a handy stack of exemptions to ensure not too much information is freed. Citizens are free to ask for information. And the government is,…
March 7, 2022
Fake news is a handy term deployed by authoritarians to criticize speech they don't like. Since it's such a malleable term, it's been co-opted by a handful of foreign governments as the basis for new laws. We don't have a fake news law here, fortunately, but it's Trump's frequent use of the term that has…
March 7, 2022
Posts about nebraska written by Karl Bode, Tim Cushing, Mike Masnick, and Zach Graves
March 7, 2022
8 posts published by Dark Helmet, Mike Masnick, Karl Bode, Tim Cushing, and Daily Deal on March 4, 2022
March 7, 2022
Posts about nih written by Tim Cushing, Mike Masnick, and Glyn Moody
March 7, 2022
Brazil's legislature is set to vote on its proposed "fake news" law. This law would criminalize speech the government doesn't like, under the handy theory that anything it doesn't like must be "fake." There was some mobilization on this not-even-legal-yet theory back in 2018, ahead of an election, when the Federal Police announced it would…