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13 Jan, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Republican lawmaker Mike Waltz (Florida) hands out pizzas to National Guard troops without wearing a mask.
He has a mask with him, just doesn't wear it.
Both @michaelgwaltz (R - Florida) and @RepHartzler (R - Missouri), seen here handing out pizza to National Guard troops, supported Trump's bid to overturn the election. Their actions contributed to the reason the troops had to be called in to protect the Capitol.

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11 Jan
Crowdstrike says SolarWinds hackers used component it's calling "Sunspot" to inject backdoor in Orion software. It sat on developer systems waiting for build commands to execute, checked if it was Orion software being built, then injected backdoor. Sunspot likely built 2.20.2020.
"SUNSPOT was identified on disk with a filename of taskhostsvc.exe (SHA256 Hash: c45c9bda8db1d470f1fd0dcc346dc449839eb5ce9a948c70369230af0b3ef168), and internally named taskhostw.exe by its developers." crowdstrike.com/blog/sunspot-m…
SolarWinds has updated the attack timeline. It now says hackers accessed SolarWinds network Sept. 4, 2019 and began their test run (which I wrote about here yahoo.com/now/hackers-la…) on Sept. 12, 2019. They ended test run on Nov. 4, 2019. The backdoor was compiled Feb. 20, 2020.
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9 Jan
“General Milley appears to have made no commitments. Short of the cabinet invoking the 25th Amendment or removing Mr. Trump through impeachment in the House and conviction in the Senate, it is unconstitutional to defy legal orders from the commander in chief.”
Col. Dave Butler, a spokesman for General Milley, confirmed that the phone call with the speaker had taken place but described it as informational. “He answered her questions regarding the process of nuclear command authority,” he said.
“some Defense Department officials clearly resented being asked to act outside of the legal authority of the 25th Amendment... trying to get the Pentagon to do the work of Congress and cabinet secretaries, who have legal options to remove a president...
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6 Jan
PBS Newshour reporter describes protesters shattering the glass on doors to the Capitol building, you can hear the pounding on the front door of the US Capitol in the background as she speaks - no police in the area where she's reporting
"Protestors are using the staff of an American flag to try to break through these windows," reporter says. She's talking about protestors at a balcony door/window.
She now reports that protestors are inside the building. Lawmakers have been moved to a safer location.
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5 Jan
Finished reading @zachsdorfman's 3-part series on espionage dance between China/CIA. Packed w/great reporting/detail Zach fleshes out how mutual spying and power dynamics unfolded over last decade w/ focus on massive hacking campaigns. Highly recommend foreignpolicy.com/2020/12/21/chi…
Here's part 2 - How U.S. intelligence on China was at a nadir as Xi was rising. foreignpolicy.com/2020/12/22/chi…
And part 3 - how China's intelligence services co-opted its tech companies to assist with processing the massive amounts of data China has stolen through hacking ops foreignpolicy.com/2020/12/23/chi…
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4 Jan
I've seen a lot of misinfo published since the election by well-meaning people who, in trying to counter false election-fraud claims, overstate the current state of election security/integrity. Here's a good piece by experts that lays out the facts👇 barrons.com/articles/elect…
"Even though there is no compelling evidence the 2020 vote was rigged, U.S. elections are insufficiently equipped to counter such claims because of a flaw in American voting. The way we conduct elections does not routinely produce public evidence that outcomes are correct."
"We need evidence-based...processes that create strong public evidence that the reported winners really won and the reported losers really lost...

Currently, only 4 states (Colorado, Nevada, Rhode Island, and Virginia) have statutory requirements for risk-limiting audits"
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24 Dec 20
New: SolarWinds backdoor infected at least 15 entities in critical infrastructure incl electric/oil/gas/manufacture + 3 managed service providers for crit infr. No evidence hackers used backdoor to enter but may be difficult to tell due to lack of logging theintercept.com/2020/12/24/sol…
Managed service providers can have authorized remote access directly into critical infr + privileges that let them alter network, install software, and control critical operations. This means hackers who breach a provider can potentially use that provider’s credentials and access
“If [provider] has access to a network, and it’s bi-directional, it’s usually for more sensitive equipment like turbine control, and you could actually do disruptive actions," @RobertMLee told me. "But just because you have access...doesn’t mean they can then flip off the lights”
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