Tara Reade just spent much of her 🇷🇺on camera time pushing right wing talking points about the 2024 US election.
Oh, and how wonderful things are in Russia.
Reade is just another American that has discovered the formula:
Go to 🇷🇺Russia & echo gov propaganda... and the government will make sure you get all the flattery you can eat.
By Reade's telling she was so blown away by 🇷🇺Russian cuisine & museums while in town for an interview... that the decision was spontaneous.
Butina echoes the narrative.
Hope America can survive the grifter brain drain to 🇷🇺Russia.
Tara [Reade] asked me to make it possible for her to come to Moscow..when she told her entire story...we Russians would never leave people to their devices... what she does here will make a major contribution to promoting unity between our two nations.
- Maria Butina
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NEW: @WhatsApp caught & fixed a sophisticated zero click attack...
Now they've published an advisory about it.
Say attackers combined the exploit with an @Apple vulnerability to hack a specific group of targets (i.e. this wasn't pointed at everybody)
Quick thoughts 1/
Wait, you say, haven't I heard of @WhatsApp zero-click exploits before?
You have.
A big user base makes a platform big target for exploit development.
Think about it from the attacker's perspective: an exploit against a popular messenger gives you potential access to a lot of devices.
You probably want maximum mileage from that painstakingly developed, weaponized, and tested exploit code you created/ purchased (or got bundled into your Pegasus subscription).
3/ The regular tempo of large platforms catching sophisticated exploits is a good sign.
They're paying attention & devoting resources to this growing category of highly targeted, sophisticated attacks.
But it's also a reminder of the magnitude of the threat out there...
WHOA: megapublisher @axelspringer is asking a German court to ban an ad-blocker.
Their claim that should make everyone nervous:
The HTML/ CSS code of websites are protected computer programs.
And influencing they are displayed (e.g by removing ads) violates copyright.
1/
2/ Preventing ad-blocking would be a huge blow to German cybersecurity and privacy.
There are critical security & privacy reasons to influence how a websites code gets displayed.
Like stripping out dangerous code & malvertising.
Or blocking unwanted trackers.
This is why most governments do it on their systems.
3/Defining HTML/CSS as a protected computer program will quickly lead to absurdities touching every corner of the internet.
Just think of the potential infringements:
-Screen readers for the blind
-'Dark mode' bowser extensions
-Displaying snippets of code in a university class
-Inspecting & modifying code in your own browser
-Website translators
3/ What still gives me chills is how many cases surfaced of people killed by cartels... or their family members... getting targeted with Pegasus spyware.
The #PegasusProject found even more potential cases in Mexico.