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Nov 28, 2023 10 tweets 6 min read
Elon's implying that James Gordon Meek, the journalist that plead guilty to federal CSAM charges this year, was an "expert" in Pizzagate.

The claim has been making the rounds since the summer, when a site called The People's Voice claimed that Meek "debunked 'Pizzagate'".

As far as I can tell, TPV confused James Gordon Meek, an American, with a *different* James Meek that wrote an article about conspiracies for The London Review of Books. That James Meek is British and obviously not the same person.

James Gordon Meek committed a heinous crime by possessing CSAM. Three's no excuse for his actions and I'm thank he was caught and brought to justice.

But he did not "debunk 'Pizzagate'", nor has he ever claimed to be an expert in it.




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TPV first covered Meek's arrest in February of this year. Here was that headline. Image
Sep 8, 2023 30 tweets 7 min read
I keep tabs on a lot of the lawsuits filed after the 2020 election. Yesterday, I noticed a new filing in former Dominion exec Eric Coomer's defamation suit against MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell.

Coomer filed a motion for sanctions against Lindell, because Lindell has been "combative, vulgar, disrespectful, non-responsive, evasive, and consistently loud" during depositions.

They included video excerpts from the depositions with their filing.

Filing:

Docket:
Aug 15, 2023 19 tweets 7 min read
Going to bump a bunch of threads that are once again relevant after the Fulton County, GA indictments - starting with this rough accounting of events that followed the 2020 election. I began looking into the activities of Trump allies mostly out of curiosity.

I've been in infosec for 15 years, so claims of computer based tampering were right up my alley.

I started by looking at an affidavit submitted in Michigan for the Antrim case

Mar 5, 2023 12 tweets 5 min read
A new video is making the rounds where the presenter claims to present evidence that voting machines used in the 2020 election were infected with malware.

In actuality, what they've found are antivirus definitions used by Windows Defender.

A (hopefully) quick thread..
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First, some background on how anti-virus programs work.

The two primary methods used by AV to detect malware are 1) signature-based detection and 2) behavior-based detection.

Most modern AV's use a hybrid but for decades, the state of the art was signature-based antivirus.
Dec 14, 2020 57 tweets 16 min read
I took today off to play Cyberpunk, but now that Trump's amplified the ASOG Antrim report, I guess I'll just start another thread to loosely collect my thoughts on the rest of it. You can find part 1 here: Let's go top-down. I'm working off of if you'd like to follow along. I can't guarantee that this thread will be accurate, coherent, or typo free because I've already started drinking Fernet, but I'll do my best.depernolaw.com/uploads/2/7/0/…