1. Welcome to the world of surveillance contractors, telecom access brokers, and an industry of grey actors with seemingly legitimate businesses. Some are regulated, some are procured by state clients - and some are sold to private actors, providing hackers and criminals alike… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
2. At the center of this global telecom surveillance web is a tech expert and telecom entrepreneur, a former ally of Julian Assange and vocal critic of the security state, now turned surveillance industry enabler.
His name is Andreas Fink.
3. Andreas Fink has built a surveillance apparatus that he has put at the disposal of governments and companies around the world including Israel’s Rayzone Group, a top-tier cyber intelligence company. Fink’s set-up is capable of exploiting loopholes in mobile phone connection… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
4. A computer and telecommunications engineer, Fink is a former payment processor for Wikileaks, an entrepreneur who supports the libertarian Pirate Party but masterminds a global surveillance infrastructure that he has placed at the disposal of governments and companies,… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
5. Andreas Fink offers his customers the ability to use a highly customizable interface, called Venotex, to send tracking requests via a roster of phone network access points that he maintains. Venotex was the system seemingly linked to the software used by Team Jorge. Fink… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
6. One of Fink’s systems was seen in the system used by the Israeli hacker-for-hire and disinformation group Team Jorge as part of their operations, which required access to the global cellular network. An international investigation led by underground journalists revealed that… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
7. When underground reporters asked about his role as an access broker exploiting telecom networks, Fink said: “I’m by far not the only kid on the block”. He cited “bigger companies with fewer scruples” including NSO Group, FinFisher, and Hacking Team, and said that “Israel,… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
8. Andreas Fink has offered location tracking services to multiple governments and companies, directly and through intermediaries. In Africa, he pitched projects in Mali and the Democratic Republic of Congo and provided technical assistance to a service provider for a government… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
9. Among his current customers is Rayzone Group, a high-end Israeli surveillance company that sells a “remote and undetectable” location tracking tool called Geomatrix. The firm was implicated in the operation to recapture fleeing Emirati princess Latifa al-Maktoum as she… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
10. Fink has also in the past worked with two other Israeli surveillance firms, Verint and Septier, both of which offer location-tracking services to government agencies. These companies tested his systems “but it never came to a viable long-term business."
12. Global span of Hire for pay Mobile Surveillance
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, he demonstrated his surveillance system to intelligence officials. The demo involved him pinpointing the location of an individual who, the officials said, operated an anonymous… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
13. So how this web of mobile spying works?
Central to understanding the Adreas Fink's operation is a list of network access points, called “global titles”. These GTs are not only operated by telephone service providers but also leased by private companies from SMS vendors to… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
14. SS7 and hacking the locations and SMSs details on behalf of espionage clients
There's also evidence of successful SMS interceptions conducted over Finks infrastructure. Fink's systems carried out frequent and sustained attempts to extract information, including location… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
15. How SS7 Attack works to hack SMSs and geolocation:
SS7 attacks are mobile cyber attacks that exploit security vulnerabilities in the SS7 protocol to compromise and intercept voice and SMS communications on a cellular network. Similar to a Man In the Middle attack, SS7 attacks… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
16. Step 1 of SS7 Mobile Network Hacking
S7 attacks exploit the authentication capability of communication protocols running atop the SS7 protocol to eavesdrop on voice and text communications. All a cybercriminal would need to successfully launch an SS7 attack are a computer… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
17. Step 2 of SS7 Mobile Network Hacking
Once connected to an SS7 network, the hacker can target subscribers on the network while fooling the network into thinking the hacker device is actually an MSC/VLR node. When a hacker successfully performs a MitM phishing attack, they… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
18. Two-factor authentication a common security precaution used by many is one of the targets of SS7 attacks. Two-factor authentication (also known as 2FA) via SMS using SS7 is inherently flawed as these SMS messages are unencrypted and hackers know how to intercept them. With… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
19. Major SS7 Attacks
In 2021 a security analyst saw some unusual activity in Southeast Asia. An attacker tried to access internet accounts belonging to wealthy investors in the country, using a technique to redirect security SMSs to the attacker. Some of these attacks succeeded,… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
20. Major SS7 Attacks
In two earlier cases, U.K. GTs registered to Adreas Fink’s bankrupt former company, SMSRelay, were also implicated in account takeover attacks, this time specifically aimed at financial assets of phone users. In 2017 a group of bank customers lost money… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
21. Death delivered at your doorstep through your mobile
in January 2021 Fink leased access to more than a dozen global titles from phone networks in the Pacific Ocean in Vanuatu, Samoa, Tonga, Papua New Guinea and Fiji. The following year, on 21 August, according to confidential… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
22. An example of "How Global surveillance and espionage work" 1. Jet linked to Israeli spyware tycoon brings spy tech from EU to notorious Sudanese militia 2. Israeli iPhones hacked with NSO’s Pegasus spyware twice in two years 3. The Israelis destabilizing democracy and… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
23. An example of "How Global surveillance and espionage work" 5. Pegasus spyware maker NSO has 22 clients in the European Union. And it's not alone. 6. Israeli spy tech sold to Bangladesh, despite dismal human rights record 7. Israel's Cyber-spy Industry Helps Dictators Hunt… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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सोशल मीडिया के सौजन्य से🎭
जगदीप धनखड़ 🧵
पीछे से विपक्ष की पिच पर खेलने लगे थे धनखड़ साहब ?
केंद्र सरकार जस्टिस वर्मा के खिलाफ लोकसभा में महाभियोग लेकर आई.
केंद्र सरकार की योजना थी कि लोकसभा स्पीकर की अगुवाई में जस्टिस वर्मा को हटाने की प्रक्रिया होगी और ये कार्य केंद्र सरकार करेगी
1.
तभी राज्यसभा में वो हुआ, जिसने भाजपा, केंद्र सरकार को हिला दिया. VP धनखड़ साहब ने अचानक से राज्यसभा में जस्टिस वर्मा के ख़िलाफ़ विपक्ष द्वारा लाए गए महाभियोग के नोटिस को स्वीकार कर लिया. इस नोटिस पर 63 सांसदों के साइन थे और ये सभी सांसद विपक्ष के थे. धनखड़ साहब ने ये सब तब किया, जब राज्यसभा में नेता सदन जेपी नड्डा और वरिष्ठ मंत्री अनुपस्थित थे. सिर्फ क़ानून मंत्री अर्जुन राम मेघवाल और जी किशन रेड्डी थे
जैसे ही धनखड़ साहब ने विपक्ष का प्रस्ताव स्वीकार किया, मेघवाल और रेड्डी के चेहरे की हवाइयां उड़ गई. दरअसल VP साहब ने केंद्र को बताए बिना विपक्ष का प्रस्ताव स्वीकार कर लिया था.
2. केंद्र सरकार जहां जहां लोकसभा में प्रस्ताव लाकर जस्टिस वर्मा को हटाने की प्रक्रिया का नेतृत्व कर न्यायिक सुधार की बड़ी मिसाल पेश करने जा रही थी, तभी धनखड़ साहब ने राज्यसभा के माध्यम से इसमें विपक्ष की भी एंट्री करा दी. केंद्र के सूत्रों की मानें तो ये सब जस्टिस वर्मा को बचाने की योजना का हिस्सा था क्योंकि विपक्ष के कई नेता जस्टिस वर्मा को हटाने के विरोध में बोल चुके थे
Congress govt fools unemployed youths of Himachal after promising 500000 jobs in their election manifesto.
Govt Jobs in Himachal Just Got Rewritten? But At What Cost?
The Himachal Pradesh government has rolled out a new Job Trainee Policy for all Group A, B, and C posts in government departments, boards, and corporations.
Sounds like progress?
Think again.
1. The Tuglaqi farman of HP Congress govt. says that:
• Every new recruit will now serve as a ‘Job Trainee’ for 2 years — not a regular employee
• During this period, they’ll get only a fixed stipend (~60% of salary)
• No pension, no CCS leave rules, no insurance, no EPF/GPF, no LTC
• Health coverage under HimCare & Ayushman Bharat only
• After 2 years, they must clear another proficiency exam to even be considered for permanent employment
• Private agencies may be used for recruitment, raising concerns about transparency
2. Meanwhile, certain elite posts like HPAS officers, judges, professors, and constables are exempted from this policy.
Why the Outrage?
BJP leader Sudhir Sharma called this a “cruel joke on Himachali youth”, accusing the government of shattering dreams, outsourcing opportunities, and using trainees without guarantees.
Aspirants now face 2 years of uncertainty, lower pay, and no job security — all in the name of reform.
Gems of Sabeer Bhatia - The Engineer who never touched a machine🧵
Did you ever pondered over this riddle that why a supposed poster boy of dotcom era is vomiting all over the digital world?
Lets check out!!
1. The Noise
In the year 2006 Sabeer Bhatia met Haryana CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda and proposed a 11000 Acre Nano city with state of the art research centers and innovation hubs. Even real estate developer Parsvanatha was brought in.
Result - With zero development, in year 2011 HSIIDC Closed this project
2. The Experiment
In the year 2011 Sabeer Bhatia submits another proposal of a 4000 Acre Nano City to then Gujrat Chief minister Narendra Modi.
Result - No progress and project was closed.
The Warfare of Narrative 🧵
Did you know:
🎭How foreign-funded proxies peddle propaganda against India?
🎭How does the Media become the biggest source of propaganda?
🎭How in the name of Media Freedom and Fact checking, narratives are built to twist the social opinions for electoral gains to engineer regime change?
🪔 Let's find out the answer to all these questions in the next part of the series:
Regime Change in India
Part 21
1. The Smokescreen
In the previous parts of the series, we have seen in ample detail how Deep State proxies and fronts fund their proxies in India to engineer a narrative and make complete propaganda at scale with such narratives.
(x.com/IamTheStory__/…)
(x.com/IamTheStory__/…)
But the biggest question is, why would they spend millions of dollars just to spread disinformation?
Or is it misinformation??
Misinformation is false information that is spread, regardless of whether there is an intent to mislead.
Disinformation is misinformation that is knowingly (intentionally) spread.
So now we know that the context of information and intention both can be twisted to change information into misinformation and use that to create disinformation.
But what is the objective?
The objective is simple:
To control the polity by fracturing the landscape of politics of a geography or country.
2. The Riddle which was never solved
The biggest challenge for the Deep State in Asia is India and its present Nationalist Government. Led by Shri Narendra Modi. Two consecutive terms were somehow swallowed by political opponents and their deep state backers. But now the 3rd term for Modi was not at all tenable.
India's growing economic might and self-reliance, fueled by "MAKE IN INDIA" manufacturing, was hurting the global military industrial complex and its deep state backers. The desperation to unseat Modi did hit a crescendo during the COVID pandemic when India went on to save half of the world with its own COVID-19 vaccine.
Now it was about time to act and solve the Modi Riddle and checkmate India's economic might to open the floodgates of economic loot and scoot for foreign MNCs.
But what was the best way to solve the "India Riddle"?
It called for some massive funding and the creation of a disinformation network at an unprecedented scale.
Enter Google and the George Soros-funded Poynter Institute. Two of the biggest funders and backers of Left liberal propaganda proxies.
In the year 2020, when Google News initiative Startup lab was launched by Internews and The News minute in India it was beginning of something sinister and debased.
In the next parts, we will see how these two entities funded and engineered a massive media proxy network to spread disinformation and at a scale populace of India has never seen.
The Warfare of Narrative 🧵
Did you know:
🎭How Foreign funded proxies peddle propaganda against India?
🎭How Media becomes the biggest source of propaganda?
🎭How in the name of Media Freedom and Fact checking narratives are build to twist the social opinions for electoral gains to engineer regime change?
🪔Lets find out answer to all these questions in the next part of series:
Regime Change in India
Part 21
1. The Smokescreen
In the previous parts of the series we have seen with ample of details that how Deep State proxies and fronts fund their proxies in India to engineer a narrative and make a complete propaganda at scale with such narratives.
(x.com/IamTheStory__/…)
(x.com/IamTheStory__/…)
But biggest question is that why would they spend millions of dollars just to spread disinformation?
or is it misinformation??
Misinformation is false information that is spread, regardless of whether there is intent to mislead.
Disinformation is is misinformation that is knowingly (intentionally) spread.
So know we know that context of information and intention both can be twisted to change information into misinformation and use that to create disinformation.
But What is the objective?
The objective is simple:
To control the polity by fracturing the landscape of politics of a geography or country.
2. The Riddle which was never solved
The biggest challenge for the Deep state in Asia is India and its present Nationalist Govt. led by Shri Narendra Modi. Two consecutive terms were somehow swallowed by political opponents and their deep state backers. But now 3rd term for Modi was not at all tenable.
India's growing economic might and self reliance fueled by "MAKE IN INDIA" manufacturing was hurting global military industrial complex and its deep state backers. The desperation to unseat Modi did hit a crescendo during the Covid when India went on to save half of the world with its own Covid vaccine.
Now it was about time to act and solve the Modi Riddle and checkmate India's economic might to open the floodgates of economic loot and scoot for foreign MNCs.
But what was the best way to solve the "India Riddle"?
It called for some massive funding and creation of disinformation network at an unprecedented scale.
Enter Google and George Soros funded Poynter Institute. Two of the biggest funders and backers of Left liberal propaganda proxies.
In the year 2020 When Google News initiative Startup lab was launched by Internews and The News minute in India it was beginning of something sinister and debased.
In the next parts we will see how these two entities funded and engineered a massive media proxies network to spread disinformation and at a scale populace of India has never seen.
The Great Indian Communist Factory - Universities and Academics of India🧵
The latest Delhi University debate on the Syllabus of its M.A. Political Science Course has opened up the Pandora's box one more time.
Let us see how deep the leftist muck is in D.U. Academics!!
1. The Debate
The D.U. Academic council is debating the inclusion of the words like "RSS" and "Jihad" in the syllabus for M.A. Political Science session of 2025 - 26.
2. The Council
The list of D.U. Academic Council includes hard core leftists like Nandini Sundar.
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Please refer to this thread to understand who is Nalini Sundar wife of "The Wire" Founder Siddharth Varadrajan,
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