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I'm monitoring the Venezuela energy company internet facing network, bits of it went offline around 3.25am yesterday and still offline today.
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Kevin Beaumont (@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social)
Corpoelec (Venezuela state energy company) internet facing advanced metering infrastructure and wind farm management system infrastructure has been offline for just over a day, still down - been moni...
cyberplace.social
January 4, 2026 at 1:54 PM
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If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free.

consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
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January 2, 2026 at 2:26 AM
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patch ye MongoDB, there's an exploit for a vuln which has been in the product for over a decade that allows the remote, unauth read of any memory - which includes plaintext creds.

Somebody posted an exploit on Christmas Day, Merry Christmas!

doublepulsar.com/merry-christ...
Merry Christmas Day! Have a MongoDB security incident.
Somebody from Elastic Security decided to post an exploit for CVE-2025–14847 on Christmas Day.
doublepulsar.com
December 26, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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Hamlet: and I, Hamlet, vow to honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and ...
Ghost: wait ... did you say Hamlet?
Hamlet: yes?
Ghost: not Scrooge?
Hamlet: ... no?
Ghost (scrolling increasingly desperately through Google calendar) oh shiii..
December 24, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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The atomic ensemble time scale at the NIST Boulder campus has failed.
December 20, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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The Trump regime in a nutshell: gut critical programs, cause devastating harm, celebrate doing so, and lie about causing harm.

The cruelty is endless.
Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the po
www.propublica.org
December 16, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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December 7, 2025 at 12:22 AM
This policy is outright backwards doublespeak. "On Wednesday, the State Department announced it would require H-1B visa applicants and their dependents to set their social media profiles to "public" so they can be reviewed by U.S. officials."
State Department to deny visas to fact checkers and others, citing 'censorship'
text.npr.org
December 6, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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KARL: Did you know about the judge's order when you issued your order for the planes to continue?

KRISTI NOEM: This is an activist judge. We comply with all federal orders that are lawful and binding.
November 30, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Fellow Americans, your government has killed 80 people in the open ocean. We have the resources to choose an approach that isn't murder. Meanwhile the president pardons a drug lord. Ask yourself why. Consider if you agree with this happening in the name of your nation. If not, speak out.
December 1, 2025 at 12:20 AM
The dissonance here is revealing
In Announcing Pardon of Drug Trafficker While Threatening Venezuela, Trump Displays Contradictions
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Like dictators before him, Trump’s road to tyranny is paved with hate.

We will not succumb to the ravings of a venomous president who wants us to hate each other. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-the-bigot-in-the-oval
November 30, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Today we will welcome Mohammed bin Salman, "MBS," a murderer, into the White House, celebrate him and sell him critical warfighting technology. New Trump policy: Make Saudi Arabia Great. Via @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/world/saudi-...
Saudi crown prince returns to U.S. for first time after diplomatic isolation
Mohammed bin Salman’s trip Tuesday, his first during Trump’s second term, will be seen as a huge step after the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
www.nbcnews.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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One of the most interesting recent privacy developments is the deployment of big two-hop IP blinding VPNs by companies like Apple and Google. These systems are designed to ensure that even those companies can’t link web requests to IP addresses.
November 13, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Bathed in the light of the setting Sun, that’s a Boeing 737-86N (HP-1726CMP) transiting the nearly full Moon Monday over the Space Coast.

Copa Airlines 445 was traveling from Orlando (MCO) to Panama City (PTY) @ 19,250ft & 389 kts.

(📷:me; flight data: @flightradar24.com )

#aviation #photography
November 4, 2025 at 3:17 AM
This hits close to home as a former participant in this program. 10 years of public service just to be rug pulled by hostile politics would be devastating. text.npr.org/nx-s1-5591157
Public workers could be denied loan forgiveness if cities defy Trump, lawsuit alleges
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November 4, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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New from @maggiemiller.bsky.social: Kristi Noem pledged to boost the nation’s cybersecurity. She gutted it instead. “There’s a real disconnect between the public messaging about #cybersecurity and the reality on the ground” www.politico.com/news/2025/10... @gate15.bsky.social
Kristi Noem pledged to boost the nation’s cybersecurity. She gutted it instead.
The cyber community fears that the administration’s continuous cuts have weakened our cyber defenses.
www.politico.com
October 23, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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“They didn’t treat people like they were American.” In Chicago last month, federal agents carried out one of the most aggressive immigration operations in recent memory, sweeping up dozens of U.S. citizens who were detained in the middle of the night. nyti.ms/3Jgpxob
October 20, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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While visiting Manzanar during a rainstorm, the sun came out to create a rainbow in the background while I photographed the memorial obelisk built in 1943 by the Japanese who were interned there.

#Landscape #Photography 📷 📸 #Leica #fotografía #foto #memorials #desert
October 20, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Yet another area where the current administration is reducing freedom for the American people.
Opinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass
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October 14, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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October 12, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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🧵Introducing the Trump Action Tracker website!

Today I’m launching www.trumpactiontracker.info - a live, searchable list of authoritarian‑style actions from Trump’s second term (over 740 actions so far). 1/14
July 21, 2025 at 8:57 PM
A great new newsletter. Check out the section on exporting the great firewall.
I made a newsletter. I went overboard with detail, but I love sharing #OSINT tips and tricks.

I've covered:
- Innovations & resources.
- Free detailed aerial imagery tool.
- DIY power grid map.
- Analysis of leaked data on mass censorship & surveillance.
osintfieldnotes.substack.com/p/osint-fiel...
OSINT Field Notes #1 - DIY Power Grid Map, Great Firewall Leak & Birds Eye View Tool
Technical teardown on how to make a custom KML for power grids. Plus: tracking tiny ships, detailed aerial views and a case file on the Geedge leaks. Read time: 8 min.
osintfieldnotes.substack.com
October 9, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

With attacks on speedboats in the Caribbean Sea, President Trump has ordered the summary execution of people who may not have committed the crime of which he accused them, the editorial board says. “It is a violation of legal due process that should alarm all Americans.”
Opinion | No President Should Have This Kind of Power
Even if the allegations are correct, blowing up the boats is a lawless exercise in the use of deadly force.
nyti.ms
September 24, 2025 at 7:50 PM
This is awful treatment of vulnerable kids. text.npr.org/g-s1-86788
FAQ: More details emerge about the 76 Guatemalan children whose deportations were stopped by a federal judge
text.npr.org
September 4, 2025 at 1:30 AM