1. OSINT. You are research experts. Great at details. Doesn't make sense? Dig in. Feed journalists who focus on that topic 2. Events happening on the ground: A particular threat hitting your org? Coordinate with your industry
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3. SPEAK UP. Do not assume other people share your views. Do not assume other people have established views on any given topic. Don't stay silent
4. Check in with people in your workplace, especially if threats are coming in to your org via email appliances, etc. VERY IMPORTANT!
5. Coordinate with physical security. Some orgs are now being physically threatened on a regular basis by QAnon nuts, the far right, etc.
6. Review security configurations on your most sensitive systems and verify email protections.
7. Host 1:1 security awareness meetings where ppl can ask anything they like & get concrete recommendations from you about their mobile device & home PC (even if your job doesn't require this, it's nice to give)
8. Organize or join a political action group inside your company
9. Organize or join a political action group outside your company
10. Give tax-deductible donations to an organization that works to advance digital rights, civil liberties, transparency etc such as @STOPSpyingNY@fightfortheftr
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I hate talking like this, as I am firmly not a conspiracy theorist. No tinfoil hats here; I am a realist. As such, I refuse to ignore what my own eyes and ears have been telling me, in addition to what many other analysts are saying.
Elections are forever different now, changed. Bannon is exporting the surveillance success of Cambridge Analytica (psychological micro-targeting using advertising profiling data from our devices/behaviors) to other countries, leading to success of the far right. Example: Italy
It takes huge balls and serious confidence in ones analysis skills to make allegations against billionaires, especially those based largely on circumstantial evidence. Legal and business constraints will prevent most from speaking freely on this topic.
Why aren't we reforming American federal data privacy laws (nonexistent) stopping Google and Apple etc from siphoning data from our devices and allowing third parties to do the same?
Repeating: Why focus on a single (albeit large) app when data privacy is a national problem?
Chinese literally stole our security clearance data. We still have no assurance it can't happen again. Where is my data privacy? Why is the access they have to our devices some other country's fault? Google and Apple are Silicon Valley companies who can be further regulated
The actual keys to stopping wholesale data transfers from the United States to China are fully within our legislators toolbelts and the answer isn't banning one app; we must stop every opportunist out there who wants to Google Nancy's address at the source: data broker industry
What FL gov DeSantis just did by sending two planes full of Venezuelan migrants to a blue state is human trafficking for the purpose of political grandstanding on a platform of racism & xenophobia. This is his plan to get elected to the national stage.
What would he do there?
Imagine a president of a union of states who thinks states should be able to declare war upon one another for virality's sake. Imagine a president who sees his constituency as mere opportunities for more power. We're in a dangerous situation, even more dangerous than in 2016
We are in the early stages of fascism, and the signs are all around us. Despite various legislative and geopolitical successes, voters still don't seem to think Joe is worth reelecting.
OK… 🤦This is another case of TikTok-specific “misinfo” with a cybersecurity nexus that didn’t come from someone with infosec or privacy credential who can provide context. Another actor who previously shared misleading info relating to TikTok is the famed JonathanData1. Beware
A few journalists reached out to me about this. To be clear, I am not implying that @RMac18 & team should not have reported on this. I just think that the reality of our overall privacy situation is being reduced to sound bites for geopolitical purposes which…
…unfairly singles out TikTok for behaviors which are exhibited by countless apps in both the Google Play Atore and Apple’s App Store.