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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 4h

Researchers used an off-the-shelf system to compile a vast collection of private data, including T-Mobile users' calls and texts, sent by satellites unencrypted (Wired)

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Death's Hedges @jmhodges.bsky.social · 5h

There's so many good reasons to default to using Signal

Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 6h

Researchers pointed a satellite dish at the sky for 3 years and monitored what unencrypted data it picked up. The results were shocking: They obtained thousands of T-Mobile users' phone calls and texts, military and law enforcement secrets, much more: www.wired.com/story/satell... 🧵👇

Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data

With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypte...

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Deirdre Connolly¹ ² @durumcrustulum.com · 3h

I finally got a tight edit up of the Signal PQ Ratchet deep dive:

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Signal's Sparse Post-Quantum Ratchet

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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 6h

Researchers pointed a satellite dish at the sky for 3 years and monitored what unencrypted data it picked up. The results were shocking: They obtained thousands of T-Mobile users' phone calls and texts, military and law enforcement secrets, much more: www.wired.com/story/satell... 🧵👇

Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data

With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypte...

www.wired.com

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 4h

Bhutan announces that it is migrating its national ID system for roughly 800,000 residents from Polygon to Ethereum, with completion expected by Q1 2026 (Brayden Lindrea/Cointelegraph)

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Deirdre Connolly¹ ² @durumcrustulum.com · 5h

when the transcription bot refuses to understand your pottymouth

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 6h

Researchers detail "Pixnapping", a new covert attack to steal 2FA codes and other private data on Android; Google's September patch only partially mitigates it (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)

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Matthew Green @matthewdgreen.bsky.social · 6h

This is amazing research by Nadia Heninger and her co-authors Wenyi Morty Zhang, Annie Dai, Keegan Ryan, Dave Levin and Aaron Schulman. TL;DR a huge number of satellite links over our heads are totally unencrypted. satcom.sysnet.ucsd.edu

🛰️ SATCOM Security

Research project homepage for SATCOM Security: papers, source code, and recent satellite communications vulnerabilities.

satcom.sysnet.ucsd.edu

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Deirdre Connolly¹ ² @durumcrustulum.com · 6h

jennifer garner looks amazing

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 6h

The UK's NCSC dealt with a record 204 "nationally significant" cyberattacks in the year to August, up 89% YoY, and "highly significant" cyberattacks rose by 50% (Joe Tidy/BBC)

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Deirdre Connolly¹ ² @durumcrustulum.com · 8h

ohhhh yesssssss ⚱️

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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 9h

My girlfriend has her dad's ashes in an urn on the mantelpiece. Lately I've started picking it up and doing a, quite frankly, incredible impression of Paul Bearer from WWF in the mirror. If she caught me, I'd be dumped, but it's SUCH a good impression.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Obama: "When you see an administration suggest that ordinary street crime is an insurrection or a terrorist act, that is a genuine effort to weaken how we have understood democracy."

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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 16h

Protests in 2025 have been notably older than earlier protest waves. Check out @fisherdanar.bsky.social's protest crowd surveys on this point: bsky.app/profile/fish...

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Jesse Mermell @jessemermell.bsky.social · 1d

He is 13. A 7th grader w/ a pending asylum case. Being held more than 500 miles from home & housed w/ adults. He called his mom crying, & reported that he’s sleeping on concrete w/ an aluminum blanket.

How is this anything other than sick & shameful? www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility - The Boston Globe

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested.

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Bluesky @bsky.app · 11h

Quick Tip: Don’t want people getting pinged when you post or reply?

You can turn that off by heading to: Settings → Privacy and Security → Allow others to be notified of your posts and toggling it off.

A screenshot of “Allow others to be notified of your posts” with “No one” selected

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🎃scarecrowcialism👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 11h

going academically beast mode

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 12h

Quantum computing stocks jumped after JPMorgan announced a $10B strategic tech investment; Arqit, D-Wave, Rigetti, and IonQ each rose about 20% (Jaures Yip/CNBC)

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tef @tef.bsky.social · 14h

it's kinda weird that all the software i am expected to use for work are all written by distributed teams, go, python, postgres, linux, chrome, k8s etc

and despite being told "the best teams work in an office together" i don't know of any software i use that's actually written that way

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Deirdre Connolly¹ ² @durumcrustulum.com · 12h

from @garbageday.email

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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 12h

The Trump admin is fully powered by the attention economy. A universe of dumbasess talking to other dumbasess, built on the assumption our tastes have grown so rotten and atrophied that we can't even remember a world where we weren't inundated by worthless slop.
www.garbageday.email/p/the-great-...

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Deirdre Connolly¹ ² @durumcrustulum.com · 15h

got both in one arm, sore arm, far less 'i feel like the flu but not' than previous years (ive had every shot and covid ~twice)

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