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John Scott-Railton Profile picture
@jsrailton
May 26, 2023 • 6 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
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UPDATE: The killer whales just struck again.

reuters.com/world/europe/k… Image
#TeamOrca sounds pretty organized in how they target sailboats.

archive.iwc.int/pages/view.php… Image
Sounds like sailors increasingly desperate efforts to scare off #TeamOrca might actually be encouraging them further.

Researchers suggest *boats should play dead*

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I think the killer whales at @SeaWorld managed to get a message out to #TeamOrca. ImageImage
The view of a French marine biologist who had to be rescued after one of the interactions matches the study I found.

#TeamOrca may just be playing.

They could sink boats much faster if they wanted.

h/t @yuroon
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Being on #TeamOrca is the only morally defensible position.

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May 28
Great. Just someone claiming to offer some #Pegasus spyware source code for sale.

True or scam, this reminds me of 2018, when an NSO employee stole code & did exactly that.

As I testified to Congress: the mercenary spyware industry continues to recklessly proliferate very sophisticated capabilities once limited to a handful of governments.

Given how many times the industry has gotten caught, I have a hard time believing that these companies can maintain enough control over all facets of their capabilities...

.... to prevent parts of their tech from inevitably leaking to criminals & other non-state actors, turbocharging cybercrime & disruptive ransomware attacks.Image
2/ Now for some grim good news in this case: even if the person is in fact offering some portion of Pegasus spyware source code, and not trying to scam people, they are not even claiming to have the working exploits used to infect phones.

Important distinction, since even if the spiciest & most-helpful-to-criminals aspects of NSO Group's codebase were leaked & incorporated into cyber criminal toolkits... criminals would still need to source the (expensive & complex) exploits required to actually infect phones. And then make them work reliably, etc etc.
3/ Here's the 2018 story of an employee stealing code.

By @josephfcox ft @RonDeibert & me.
vice.com/en/article/9km…



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May 20
Reading this? Your blood probably contains some amount of toxic forever chemicals made by @3m.

How much & is there enough to spike your risk of certain cancers & illnesses?

Without complex blood testing you have no idea.

Why is their toxin running in your veins? Well, the companies that made this stuff (3M & DuPont) kept their discoveries of the harms secret... even as their toxin was incorporated into...everything.

From french fry bags to chairs.

They even gaslit their own scientists.

And they regularly dumped & released their chemicals into the environments around their plants, creating toxic zones.

You should read this shocking profile of corporate greed and cynicism @fastlerner & @propublica.

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2/ Risks include Diabetes, obesity, testicular cancer, developmental delays...

Some researchers think that anyone exposed to these chemicals will have an elevated cancer risk.

At ANY concentration.

Since scientists estimate that we ALL have at least one of these forever chemicals in our blood...

That would be all of us.

If that framing for some reason doesn't bug you, consider the taxpayer costs.

The numbers are staggering.

$64 billion in estimated increased disease burden in a single year.

Meanwhile @3M is making $1.5 billion a year from making the stuff.

And 16,000 of @3M's products still contain the chemical.

While the company pledges to wind down manufacture. They haven't stopped.

To date, 3m has not admitted wrongdoing and faced no criminal liability.Image
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3/ We're all living in a nonconsensual lab experiment on the effect of forever chemicals on health.

Short of a rocket to mars, we're stuck in the cage. There is no control group.

Want to pull the thread? Good news: Dark Waters is on @netflix.

Oh, and its real-life lawyer hero is still fighting the good fight. You can follow him @RobertBilott👇
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May 9
I can confidently diagnose @betterhelp as sociopaths.

Promised therapy customers privacy...then gave their mental health info to advertisers.

Victims get less than ten bucks each.
wcnc.com/article/news/n…
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A billion+ dollars in revenue in 2023 alone.

Yet @betterhelp paid less than $8 million in fines for victimizing their *entire customer base* for 4+ years.

In a just society with comprehensive privacy legislation, they'd face existential civil & criminal consequences. Image
A single therapist that did this would lose their livelihood and probably wind up with local news camped in front of their office.

A company does it to 800,000 people and you can't even hear the wrist slap from the next room.
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May 2
BREAKING: Israeli private investigator arrested for cyberespionage on behalf of American PR firm.

Caught by UK under #RedNotice from 🇺🇸US while boarding a flight.

BIG TWIST in a wild case that began w/a @citizenlab investigation 1/🧵

By @samiotobin
reuters.com/world/israeli-…
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2/Israeli PI arrested at airport linked to hack for hire operation... Sound familiar?

Because Amit Forlit is the *second* Israeli PI arrested in this way for this case.

The first has already been convicted.

So, what's it about?
3/ There's a disgraceful ecosystem of public relations & lobbying firms that use hackers for hire.

Used in many businesses-on-business fights.

But.. also on behalf of businesses seeking to silence critics & advocacy groups

This is where our @citizenlab investigation began.
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Apr 22
BREAKING: US @StateDept imposes visa restrictions on 13 mercenary spyware proliferators / immediate family.

First known application of policy rolled out in Feb.
state.gov/promoting-acco…
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2/ Visa restrictions are a promising tool in the fight against mercenary spyware.

Spyware developers & investors want big returns.

But they also want to spend some of that money on travel to the US & their kids' Ivy League tuition.

3/ As the visa announcement ricochets around mercenary spyware land...

A *lot* of shady players are surely having a little panic.

...wondering if their name is or will be on a list.
state.gov/promoting-acco…
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Apr 19
SEEN THESE ADS?

Producer is a declared foreign agent, paid ~$6.8m to make Kremlin propaganda on #Ukraine, etc.

He's claimed in filings that those videos wouldn't target the US audiences.

By @taylorgiorno_ & @annalecta opensecrets.org/news/2022/08/r…
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Please REPLY if you are seeing "Zelenskyy Unmasked" ads in the US.

In FARA registrations, Ben Swann claims Russian millions are *not* for content targeting the the US.

So who is funding this massive advertising spend to attack #Ukraine?

FARA Example: efile.fara.gov/docs/7151-Supp…
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3/ Anecdotally I keep hearing that viewers of my tweets about Russian hacking & election interference are being shown the ads.👇
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