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Jurre van Bergen
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Technologist at Amnesty's Security Lab. Here's how to contact me securely: https://gist.github.com/DrWhax/61978d4e7df5291d4cf308f10dc20d5a
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claucece.bsky.social
Happy to have written this new blogpost from Brave Research, based on work at Internet Architecture Board, with Hamed Haddadi and Kyle Den Hartog.

brave.com/blog/zkp-age...

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November 6, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Bluesky had zero funny dick Cheney joke today. I saw multiple good one on X.
November 4, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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interseclab.bsky.social
Readers in Chinese-speaking regions can now gain deeper insights into our findings on Geedge's suite!
Our report “The Internet Coup” is now available in Traditional Chinese (using Taiwanese terminology), thanks to the translation by @anoni.net. #GreatFirewallExport

anoni.net/docs/report/...
網路政變 / The Internet Coup | InterSecLab - 匿名網路社群 Anoni.net/Docs
關於中國網路防火牆服務輸出到其他國家，希望引起各界對網路自由和網路治理的反思和警覺
anoni.net
October 30, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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More research being conducted on the Geedge Networks dataset. @domaintools.bsky.social started a series dissecting the Geedge leak and posted their 1st part out of 3. dti.domaintools.com/inside-the-g... #GFWExport
Inside the Great Firewall Part 1: The Dump - DomainTools Investigations | DTI
Analysis of the 500GB+ Great Firewall data breach revealing China’s state censorship network, VPN evasion tactics, and the operators behind it.
dti.domaintools.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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The Sydney Opera House spoiled us by uploading a recent concert by Beth Gibbons on their YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/watch?v=apAo...
Beth Gibbons | Live at Sydney Opera House
YouTube video by Sydney Opera House
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October 30, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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TIL that it's not possible to register a foreign marriage if you're both foreigners but residents of Portugal. Okay?
October 29, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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ajvicens.bsky.social
Exclusive: US military officials required to sign NDAs tied to Latin America mission, sources say www.reuters.com/world/americ...
Exclusive: US military officials required to sign NDAs tied to Latin America mission, sources say
U.S. military officials involved with President Donald Trump's expanding operations in Latin America have been asked to sign non-disclosure agreements, three U.S. officials say, a development that raises new questions about a military buildup that Venezuela fears may lead to an invasion.
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October 28, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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PBS did a great section on the Great Firewall Export, that we published together with @papertrailmedia.de @interseclab.bsky.social @justiceformyanmar.org @theglobeandmail.com @torproject.bsky.social and us @amnesty.org. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
Massive leak exposes how China’s ‘Great Firewall’ is being exported to other countries
For years, China’s government has used what’s known as the “Great Firewall” to censor the internet inside its country and block access to select foreign websites. Now, a document leak shows that a lit...
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October 23, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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find.ngo
Next week (29–31 Oct), FIND’s Jack Parham joins @smex.org's Bread&Net in Beirut!

Make sure you catch our two sessions:

🔎 Look Who’s Selling — workshop on investigating surveillance firms

🎤 Click, Load, Kill — panel on the cyberweapon industry in WANA

🔗 Register: breadandnet.org
October 23, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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The Netherlands is slipping on the democracy index and thats worrisome.
Dutch Bar Association: the vast majority of parties have plans that conflict with the rule of law Twelve of the fifteen parties in the House of Representatives have plans that go against the rule of law. The Dutch Bar Association (NOvA) concludes this after examining the election manifestos. The PVV and Forum for Democracy (FVD) take the cake. In at least 30 cases, plans by these parties are unlawful, says an independent committee of the professional organization for lawyers.
October 20, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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It's been quite a number of years since we've seen how the Pegasus client panel looks. Document from the WhatsApp lawsuit. (p15 storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...)
October 18, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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Weird times ahead...
mattsteinglass.bsky.social Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 23d
Hard to explain to non-Dutch that for a Dutch (non-far-right) political party to wave the national flag at a rally is actually unusual, and a statement that you are trying to retake patriotic ground. Flag-waving long frowned on as quasi fascist
October 18, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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interseclab.bsky.social
Mass surveillance has become a consumer product. Our new blog post explores what 100,000+ leaked documents reveal about a new frontier in state control — and what it means for protecting privacy and digital security.

Read more: interseclab.org/can-mass-sur... #GreatFirewallExport
Can mass surveillance be a consumer product? | InterSecLab
Surveillance company leaks expose mass surveillance, state control, and private sector involvement. What does this mean for global privacy?
interseclab.org
October 16, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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The video of @droethlisberger.bsky.social and my @reconmtl.bsky.social 2025 talk, "A Trip to Ancient BABYLON", is now online! It's a fun story about a 2017-era iOS persistence exploit that we found in a Pegasus sample -- on VT (!!)
Recon 2025 - A Trip to Ancient BABYLON: Unearthing a 2017 Pegasus Persistence Exploit
YouTube video by Recon Conference
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October 16, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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artepovera.bsky.social
Alle - Kinderschutzbund, Jurist*innen, IT-Unternehmen, NGOs, Sicherheitsbranche - sind sich einig: Die #Chatkontrolle ist ineffektiv und gefährlich. Hier die Kritik von @amnesty.de
Ausschnitt Netzpolitik.org: "Lena Rohrbach, Expertin für Menschenrechte im digitalen Zeitalter bei Amnesty International sagt: „Bei der Chatkontrolle stimmt gar nichts: Als anlasslose Massenüberwachung trifft sie alle Menschen in der EU – außer Straftäter:innen, die sie umgehen werden.“ Das Vorhaben der Chatkontrolle „gefährdet die Demokratie, weil sie eine beispiellose Kontrolle unserer Kommunikation ermöglicht, die leicht missbraucht werden kann.“ Auch sie weist darauf hin, dass Kinder „echten Schutz durch Prävention und zielgerichtete Ermittlung“ benötigen würden."
October 7, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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artepovera.bsky.social
📢 Last Call für die Rettung der freien Kommunikation vor der #Chatkontrolle!

BMI & BMJ entscheiden jetzt, wie Deutschland i.d. EU am 14.10. abstimmt - als Zünglein an der Waage.

💥Jetzt Ministerien kontaktieren: chat-kontrolle.eu/index.php/20...
💥& unterschreiben: weact.campact.de/petitions/ch...
Chatkontrolle stoppen!
Die EU-Kommission will Messenger-Dienste wie WhatsApp und Signal zwingen, alle privaten Nachrichten und Fotos in Echtzeit zu scannen. Angeblich zum Kinderschutz. In Wahrheit bedeutet die Chatkontrolle...
weact.campact.de
October 7, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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amnestybhr.bsky.social
🚨A NEW POLL released by @amnesty.org &
@globalwitness.org suggests majority of Europeans favour human rights & environmental protection yet @ec.europa.eu is trying to roll these back #EU #CSDDD #HumanRights #climatejustice 🧵

Full results here: amn.st/eupublicopin...

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EU: New research suggests majority of Europeans favour human rights and environmental protection in face of EU rollback
New polling by Ipsos reveals that a large majority of people (75%) across 10 European countries think it is important that the European Union (EU) uphold its own environmental laws. The new survey of ...
amn.st
October 6, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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tek.randhome.io
Technical Writeup: Signal Account Takeovers Phishing Campaign Targets Exiled Belarusian Activists 2025 – RESIDENT.NGO THREAT LAB https://resident.ngo/lab/writeups/signal-phishing-belarus-2025/
Technical Writeup: Signal Account Takeovers Phishing Campaign Targets Exiled Belarusian Activists 2025 – RESIDENT.NGO THREAT LAB
resident.ngo
October 6, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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couts.bsky.social
NEW: ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7, build dossiers on people, and flag them for arrest and deportation. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-so...
ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team
Documents show ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.
www.wired.com
October 3, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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johnnyryan.bsky.social
This peculiar and alarming.

Labour leader @ivanabacik.bsky.social Ivana Bacik asks Justice Minister Jim O'Callaghan what he has done to ensure the DPC finally acts against the data free-for-all that sends people's movements to countless data brokers.

vimeo.com/1124123069?f...
Irish Minister for Justice asked about RTB data by Labour Leader in Parliament
1 October 2025 source https://video.oireachtas.ie/hourly/dail/dail_20251001T1200.mp4
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October 3, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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find.ngo
Spyware sold as “crime-fighting tech” is used to target journalists, activists & dissidents. Between 2011–23, 1/3 of countries bought it, with nearly every WANA state implicated. With @smex.org, we mapped vendors & profiteers so civil society and policymakers can pursue accountability.
October 2, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Utimaco's 'lawful interception" division (that makes the LIMS software we just covered in our Shadows of Control report) got acquired by Invision AG and PINOVA. www.invision.ch/en/invision-...
Invision AG and PINOVA acquire Utimaco’s Lawful Interception Business The transaction represents a carve-out of Utimaco Telecom Solutions (UTS), a business unit of the Utimaco Group. Stefan Auerbach, CEO of Utimaco, shared: “UTS has been an important and valuable part of Utimaco’s development for many years. We believe separating the business units and allowing each to focus fully on their core competencies is the right step to optimally position both companies for the future. With INVISION and PINOVA, two new owners have been found who understand and want to expand the value and potential of the Utimaco TS business. We are confident in the success of the new company and will remain connected to our former colleagues as partners in ongoing and new projects.” 🔗 Read more here: https://lnkd.in/eHZxf9Ey
October 1, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Some companies don't reply to questions, but they change their website to remove any incriminating projects they work on :)
September 30, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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The Pakistani PTA just reacted to our reporting on the firewall (WMS 2.0). Which they denied is true, but at the same time they're admitting using it as a surveillance tool: www.arabnews.pk/node/2616727...
The government has denied it is using an Internet firewall to censor critics, while official said it would be used to protect government networks from attacks and to allow authorities to identify IP addresses associated with “anti-state propaganda.”
September 29, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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They all want to be China so bad.
robertscotthorton.bsky.social Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · Sep 27
Larry Ellison envisions a surveillance state in which techbros rule. '“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on,” Ellison said in an hour-long Q&A during Oracle’s Financial Analyst Meeting last week.'
Larry Ellison predicts rise of the modern surveillance state where ‘citizens will be on their best behavior’ | Fortune
Oracle's Larry Ellison believes citizens and police alike will be under constant surveillance of each other.
fortune.com
September 28, 2025 at 7:14 PM