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Thomas Brewster
@iblametom
Security, surveillance and privacy reporter for @Forbes+@ForbesTech. Tip me! Signal: +447782376697. Email: tbrewster@forbes.com. Threema ID: S2XY9B9U
Jul 13, 2020 • 16 tweets • 6 min read
New exclusive investigation - Meet Mitre Corporation, the nonprofit that gets up to $2 billion every year from US agencies to do all manner of national security, surveillance and healthcare work, much of it done in secret. Get ready for some scoops... forbes.com/sites/thomasbr… Scoop no. 1 - In 2017, the DHS paid Mitre $500,000 to create a tool to hack IoT devices, specifically mentioning smartwatches. The aim was to detect them as they entered a "boundary" and exploit them automatically. Cops and border agents potential users. forbes.com/sites/thomasbr…
Feb 6, 2020 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Exclusive: Darktrace is one of the hottest cybersecurity startups in the world and claims to have grown to a $2 billion valuation.

But, after speaking with more than two dozen current and former staffers, I learned about some darkness inside Darktrace...

forbes.com/sites/thomasbr… But the real focus of this investigation is Sushovan Hussain, a convicted fraudster who was pulling strings at Darktrace long after he resigned from the board. He’d departed as the U.S. charged him over the calamitous $11bn HP Autonomy acquisition.

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Mar 6, 2019 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
🚨 Scoop! 🚨 Here’s a crazy thing the FBI did: forbes.com/sites/thomasbr… Back in 2017 an FBI agent took control of the Instagram and Kik accounts of a suspected pedophile. That suspect was running a bunch of groups sharing horrific child abuse material of young boys...

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Oct 12, 2018 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
So, this is an insane story, so I’m going to do a quick thread.

This story started when I found the first known case of the US government demanding data from Google’s Nest division... The feds bust into a North Carolina flat and found a load of weed and guns.

They also found two Nest Cams. As Stringer Bell once said, don’t take notes on your criminal conspiracy...
Aug 15, 2018 • 12 tweets • 5 min read
This is an insane case, so I'll start a thread.

Here's what went down:

A spate of armed robberies hit at least nine locations in Portland, Maine, in March.

The government orders Google to find all users who were within 2 of 9 locations, covering a total of 45 hectares... The government also slaps a gag order on Google, preventing it from disclosing the data request to anyone.

Over the coming months, Google just doesn't respond with the data. It doesn't appear to file any response at all, in fact.

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