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Jan 9 • 5 tweets • 5 min read
BREAKING: Supreme Court *denies* #NSO Group's cert petition.

Massive blow to the notorious spyware company.

@WhatsApp's lawsuit against them in Federal court is now clear to go ahead & move towards discovery.

Source: supremecourt.gov/orders/courtor…
2/ Background: #NSO Group was sued by @WhatsApp for the 2019 hacking of 1.4k WA with NSO's notorious spyware.

NSO tried *every delay tactic* to stop the lawsuit.

Their last hope? Petitioning the Supreme Court to hear their case & give them immunity.

apnews.com/article/us-sup…
3/ NSO Group didn't just petition the Supreme Court.

They asked the Court to ask the Solicitor General to weigh in.

As a strategy, this turned out to be a misjudgment.👇
4/ Now, the mercenary spyware company is going to have to face the music in court.

There's the @WhatsApp lawsuit.

And an @Apple lawsuit.

And then a recent lawsuit by @knightcolumbia on behalf of journalist victims of NSO.👇

Ouch.

By @RonanFarrow
newyorker.com/news/news-desk…
5/ NSO is staring down a clutch of high powered lawsuits this morning.

Looks like @knightcolumbia is the first out with a statement.

By @cmd_dc w @JameelJaffer
knightcolumbia.org/content/knight…

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Jan 9
The day after an attempted Coup in Brazil, Musk just restored Ali Alexander's Twitter.

Here's Ali on Jan 5, 2021 leading a chant of "Victory or Death"

This ends badly 1/
2/ After being banned from Twitter after #Jan6, Ali Alexander moved his civil war incitement to Telegram.

Ali is an absolute liability for any platform that hosts him.

3/ Stop the Steal architect & civil war inciter Ali Alexander has plans to get a bunch of attention on Twitter.

Don't be rage farmed.

You can *not participate* by never Replying & never Quote Tweeting him.

Screenshot if you must & use a #TruthSandwich.
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Jan 8
BREAKING: pro-#Bolsonaro rioters breach Congress, Supreme Court & Presidential Palace in 🇧🇷#Brazil.

Ex president promotes a stolen election lie & has been close to Trump.

He skipped inauguration of his predecessor & flew to Florida.

By: @peterbmillard
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
2/ What does this remind you of?

🇧🇷#Brazil is yet more proof that the "stolen election" lie is poison for Democracy.

3/ Appalling footage is surfacing of pro-#Bolsonaro rioters dragging and beating the police protecting 🇧🇷#Brazil's capitol.

This is very, very bad.

And looks extremely orchestrated.
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Jan 3
#Louisiana is in the top 3 states for gun violence.

Meanwhile, their legislators are doing just absolute moralizing nonsense.

It is not going to stop here.
2/ @RepSchlegel is behind #Louisiana's creepy moral panic legislation.

Yes, people will use VPNs...

But the bigger issue: this is the leading edge of efforts to insert the government deep into your web browsing. Image
3/ Just connect your *Sate-Issued Digital Drivers License* to an adult website...

What could possibly go wrong here?
wafb.com/2022/12/28/wat… ImageImage
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Jan 2
In Paris, police stopped an intoxicated woman.

They found this in the car. Sophisticated professional spy gear called an IMSI catcher.

Cops suspected a bomb & blew the suitcase up.

Now under 'specialist' investigation.

H/t @Sh0ckFR
2/ Don't drunk drive your tactical signals intelligence gear.

Can anyone identify the powerblocks, amplifier, etc here?

Nice professional looking installation.

Pic: @AmauryBucco
3/ How about a make/model on this?

Pic again by @AmauryBucco.
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Dec 29, 2022
NEW: Andrew Tate & brother arrested after raid.

Accused of raping two women, one of whom is a US citizen.

Also accused of sex trafficking.

Story [machine-translated from RO] by @Digi24_HD
digi24.ro/stiri/actualit…
2/ #AndrewTate had been banned from Twitter (and plenty of other platforms) but was recently allowed to return by Musk.

Tate has had a rough 24h. Just prior to the arrest @GretaThunberg absolutely wrecked him.
3/ Folks tracking truly dubious influencers like #AndrewTate may recall that that the #manosphere figure was previously raided back in April of 2022 by Romanian authorities.

Here's what Tate said at the time

By @willsommer
thedailybeast.com/police-raid-ma…
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Dec 28, 2022
Incomprehensibly bad NYT op-ed to crown off the year.

Argument: because @signalapp's developers are focused on of giving us free & secure encrypted chat this is somehow problematic.

Honestly, if I'm going to use a private messaging system I want one designed by *obsessives* Image
2/ Protecting user data from inevitable overreach is not a "lack of faith in good governance."

It's realist pragmatism.

If there's one lesson we've learned from the past 20 years it's that if you retain sensitive of user data... people WILL come after it. Image
3/ Hot take: the real problem isn't the powerful interests trying to mine our data, or treating it recklessly leading to the millionth breach, or dictators.

No.

It's the people trying to protect our data & give us control.

They are the real bad guys. Image
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