Paul Withers
@paul-cyfecta.bsky.social
PhD Candidate, Department of War Studies, King’s College London. Researching cyber effects and information warfare
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Hannah Arendt, aktueller denn je:
„Der Tod der menschlichen Empathie ist eines der frühesten und deutlichsten Zeichen dafür, dass eine Kultur gerade in die Barbarei verfällt.“
#HannahArendt
„Der Tod der menschlichen Empathie ist eines der frühesten und deutlichsten Zeichen dafür, dass eine Kultur gerade in die Barbarei verfällt.“
#HannahArendt
July 12, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Hannah Arendt, aktueller denn je:
„Der Tod der menschlichen Empathie ist eines der frühesten und deutlichsten Zeichen dafür, dass eine Kultur gerade in die Barbarei verfällt.“
#HannahArendt
„Der Tod der menschlichen Empathie ist eines der frühesten und deutlichsten Zeichen dafür, dass eine Kultur gerade in die Barbarei verfällt.“
#HannahArendt
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Excellent pic
June 15, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Excellent pic
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The SDR outlines sensible steps to improve defence in the cyber domain. But it leaves details to be developed, particularly about how the UK should operate in cyberspace, writes @joedevanny.bsky.social.
Cyber and the Strategic Defence Review: All Pervasive But Light on Details
The SDR outlines a series of sensible steps to improve the coherence of defence in the cyber domain. But it leaves a lot of details to be developed in implementation, particularly about how the UK sho...
www.rusi.org
June 11, 2025 at 11:03 AM
The SDR outlines sensible steps to improve defence in the cyber domain. But it leaves details to be developed, particularly about how the UK should operate in cyberspace, writes @joedevanny.bsky.social.
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"ATESH partisan group carried out a successful sabotage operation on the new Volnovakha-Mariupol railway section in the Donetsk region. This significantly weakened Russia's defensive capabilities on the front line," newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/atesh-k...
ATESH knocks out key Donetsk rail line cutting Russian supplies
Read more
newsukraine.rbc.ua
June 1, 2025 at 6:14 AM
"ATESH partisan group carried out a successful sabotage operation on the new Volnovakha-Mariupol railway section in the Donetsk region. This significantly weakened Russia's defensive capabilities on the front line," newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/atesh-k...
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My short piece for the Lowy Institute on Russian bombers’ very bad day. www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpre...
The three punch combo behind Ukraine’s spectacular drone strike on Russia
Drones make for a cheap threat to Russia’s war machine and a much-needed morale boost at home – but this attack won’t break Putin’s resolve.
www.lowyinstitute.org
June 2, 2025 at 5:04 AM
My short piece for the Lowy Institute on Russian bombers’ very bad day. www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpre...
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Die massive Zunahme rechter Gewalt erwähnt Herr Dobrindt nicht...
Mehrere Bundesländer betroffen: Rechtsextreme Terrorzelle soll Anschläge geplant haben - fünf Festnahmen
Quelle: N-TV
search.app/NNU6V
Über die Google App geteilt
Mehrere Bundesländer betroffen: Rechtsextreme Terrorzelle soll Anschläge geplant haben - fünf Festnahmen
Quelle: N-TV
search.app/NNU6V
Über die Google App geteilt
Rechtsextreme Terrorzelle soll Anschläge geplant haben - fünf Festnahmen
In drei Bundesländern kommt es zu Verhaftungen im Zuge der Ermittlungen gegen eine rechtsextreme Terrorzelle. Diese habe mehrere Anschläge geplant, heißt es. Mehrfach soll versucht worden sein, die Ta...
search.app
May 21, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Die massive Zunahme rechter Gewalt erwähnt Herr Dobrindt nicht...
Mehrere Bundesländer betroffen: Rechtsextreme Terrorzelle soll Anschläge geplant haben - fünf Festnahmen
Quelle: N-TV
search.app/NNU6V
Über die Google App geteilt
Mehrere Bundesländer betroffen: Rechtsextreme Terrorzelle soll Anschläge geplant haben - fünf Festnahmen
Quelle: N-TV
search.app/NNU6V
Über die Google App geteilt
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"Our 'we're not the Gestapo' shirts are raising a lot of questions already answered by our shirts."
May 19, 2025 at 1:48 PM
"Our 'we're not the Gestapo' shirts are raising a lot of questions already answered by our shirts."
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This Denmark-Germany undersea tunnel is quite the engineering feat. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm2e...
How the world’s largest underwater tunnel is being built | BBC News
YouTube video by BBC News
www.youtube.com
May 11, 2025 at 2:48 PM
This Denmark-Germany undersea tunnel is quite the engineering feat. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm2e...
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After targeting Dutch provincial government sites and the Romanian election, NoName057 switches to targeting UK local government portals
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Pro-Russian hackers claim to have targeted several UK websites
Group that calls itself NoName057(16) appears to have had limited success disrupting council and other websites
www.theguardian.com
May 8, 2025 at 1:54 PM
After targeting Dutch provincial government sites and the Romanian election, NoName057 switches to targeting UK local government portals
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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It takes a massive brass neck to have your administration attack another president for being disrespectfully dressed in a meeting and then turn up to the pope's funeral in a blue suit.
April 26, 2025 at 10:31 AM
It takes a massive brass neck to have your administration attack another president for being disrespectfully dressed in a meeting and then turn up to the pope's funeral in a blue suit.
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By ratifying Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea, the Trump peace plan undermines one of the core pillars of the post-1945 world order—nations cannot change their borders by force. This is a reward for aggression and an invitation to more aggression. bit.ly/3YhkKqZ
Opinion | Trump’s peace plan for Ukraine rewards Russian aggression
Accepting Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea would upend a core tenet of U.S. foreign policy.
bit.ly
April 24, 2025 at 3:51 PM
By ratifying Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea, the Trump peace plan undermines one of the core pillars of the post-1945 world order—nations cannot change their borders by force. This is a reward for aggression and an invitation to more aggression. bit.ly/3YhkKqZ
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The whole country has gone insane.
A promotional fibreglass husk for a movie, featuring an animal of undetermined immigration status, was vandalised by two lads on the piss.
He’s not Jesus.
A promotional fibreglass husk for a movie, featuring an animal of undetermined immigration status, was vandalised by two lads on the piss.
He’s not Jesus.
March 25, 2025 at 2:34 PM
The whole country has gone insane.
A promotional fibreglass husk for a movie, featuring an animal of undetermined immigration status, was vandalised by two lads on the piss.
He’s not Jesus.
A promotional fibreglass husk for a movie, featuring an animal of undetermined immigration status, was vandalised by two lads on the piss.
He’s not Jesus.
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Surpassed only by the picture of Paddington stealing the police car 😁
March 25, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Surpassed only by the picture of Paddington stealing the police car 😁
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This is incorrect. "Signal...prevents anyone — including hackers, law enforcement or Signal itself — from accessing what is written or said in the app." Signal *only* protects texts in transit, not texts that are on the device. If hacker or law enforcement gains access to device, they can read msgs.
Why government workers and military planners all love Signal now
The encrypted chat app beloved by Elon Musk and foreign dissidents has been embraced by federal government workers, DOGE and military planners.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 25, 2025 at 5:10 PM
This is incorrect. "Signal...prevents anyone — including hackers, law enforcement or Signal itself — from accessing what is written or said in the app." Signal *only* protects texts in transit, not texts that are on the device. If hacker or law enforcement gains access to device, they can read msgs.
x.com/politlcsus/s...
For those that still use the other place. Straight out of the Kremlin playbook. They’re creating a pretext to go in and protect the people of Greenland from an imaginary threat they’ve created. @keirgiles.bsky.social
For those that still use the other place. Straight out of the Kremlin playbook. They’re creating a pretext to go in and protect the people of Greenland from an imaginary threat they’ve created. @keirgiles.bsky.social
Politics US on X: "🚨🎥 WATCH: Vice President JD Vance will join Second Lady Usha Vance's trip to Greenland on Friday https://t.co/XEXtOMuX9p" / X
🚨🎥 WATCH: Vice President JD Vance will join Second Lady Usha Vance's trip to Greenland on Friday https://t.co/XEXtOMuX9p
x.com
March 26, 2025 at 7:05 AM
x.com/politlcsus/s...
For those that still use the other place. Straight out of the Kremlin playbook. They’re creating a pretext to go in and protect the people of Greenland from an imaginary threat they’ve created. @keirgiles.bsky.social
For those that still use the other place. Straight out of the Kremlin playbook. They’re creating a pretext to go in and protect the people of Greenland from an imaginary threat they’ve created. @keirgiles.bsky.social
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An APT group named Angry Likho has made hundreds of victims across Russia and Belarus over the past two years.
The group's usual targets include employees of large organizations, such as government agencies and their contractors
securelist.com/angry-likho-...
The group's usual targets include employees of large organizations, such as government agencies and their contractors
securelist.com/angry-likho-...
February 22, 2025 at 10:58 PM
An APT group named Angry Likho has made hundreds of victims across Russia and Belarus over the past two years.
The group's usual targets include employees of large organizations, such as government agencies and their contractors
securelist.com/angry-likho-...
The group's usual targets include employees of large organizations, such as government agencies and their contractors
securelist.com/angry-likho-...
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I don’t normally get worked up about the naming threat actors thing.
But the Volt & Salt Typhoon is a disaster as it’s so hard for non-specialists to tell them apart:
- Salt is Snowden style espionage by China against US
- Volt is a direct 🇨🇳 military threat to degrade western infrastructure 1/2
But the Volt & Salt Typhoon is a disaster as it’s so hard for non-specialists to tell them apart:
- Salt is Snowden style espionage by China against US
- Volt is a direct 🇨🇳 military threat to degrade western infrastructure 1/2
December 12, 2024 at 8:47 PM
I don’t normally get worked up about the naming threat actors thing.
But the Volt & Salt Typhoon is a disaster as it’s so hard for non-specialists to tell them apart:
- Salt is Snowden style espionage by China against US
- Volt is a direct 🇨🇳 military threat to degrade western infrastructure 1/2
But the Volt & Salt Typhoon is a disaster as it’s so hard for non-specialists to tell them apart:
- Salt is Snowden style espionage by China against US
- Volt is a direct 🇨🇳 military threat to degrade western infrastructure 1/2
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lol China's state media is sad about Bluesky because it's not an easy propaganda distribution channel like X (and Facebook)
www.semafor.com/article/11/2...
www.semafor.com/article/11/2...
November 26, 2024 at 12:49 PM
lol China's state media is sad about Bluesky because it's not an easy propaganda distribution channel like X (and Facebook)
www.semafor.com/article/11/2...
www.semafor.com/article/11/2...
