evacide
@evacide.bsky.social
Director of Cybersecurity @eff.org
Co-founder of @stopstalkerware.bsky.social
These opinions are my own, not my employers’
I did a TED talk once
Co-founder of @stopstalkerware.bsky.social
These opinions are my own, not my employers’
I did a TED talk once
After two trips to the hardware store and approximately $25 in bits and bobs that did not work, I fixed the catch on my antique dresser cabinet with a single screw.
November 10, 2025 at 12:07 AM
After two trips to the hardware store and approximately $25 in bits and bobs that did not work, I fixed the catch on my antique dresser cabinet with a single screw.
NSO's new executive chairman is a Trump former official, in case you're wondering how hard the company is gunning for those sweet, sweet US government contracts.
www.wsj.com/tech/israeli...
www.wsj.com/tech/israeli...
Israeli Spyware Maker NSO Gets New Owners, Leadership and Seeks to Mend Reputation
Investors led by Hollywood producer Robert Simonds have taken a controlling stake in the company behind Pegasus, and former Trump official David Friedman has been named executive chairman.
www.wsj.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:09 PM
NSO's new executive chairman is a Trump former official, in case you're wondering how hard the company is gunning for those sweet, sweet US government contracts.
www.wsj.com/tech/israeli...
www.wsj.com/tech/israeli...
This is very clearly the direction in which things are headed, especially since so many of the people who built and maintained the tools the US IC has developed-in house have been fired or have left.
YIKES: NSO floats Pegasus spyware used in hypothetical "time of domestic crisis" in 🇺🇸America.
I believe they won't stop lobbying until they get Pegasus into USA.
To hack Americans. 1/
I believe they won't stop lobbying until they get Pegasus into USA.
To hack Americans. 1/
November 7, 2025 at 10:11 PM
This is very clearly the direction in which things are headed, especially since so many of the people who built and maintained the tools the US IC has developed-in house have been fired or have left.
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This #databrooker business must be stopped.
FYI @carissaveliz.bsky.social
This #databrooker business must be stopped.
FYI @carissaveliz.bsky.social
Precise Locations of EU Officials Retrieved Through Data Brokers
Phone location data, collected under the guise of ad tracking, can be used to precisely track the movements of millions in the EU.
cyberinsider.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:25 PM
cyberinsider.com/precise-loca...
This #databrooker business must be stopped.
FYI @carissaveliz.bsky.social
This #databrooker business must be stopped.
FYI @carissaveliz.bsky.social
EFF teamed up with AV Comparatives to see how well anti-virus apps detect stalkerware on Android phones.
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
November 6, 2025 at 8:22 PM
EFF teamed up with AV Comparatives to see how well anti-virus apps detect stalkerware on Android phones.
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
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The key thing to watch here: they fired a Wired political reporter. That’s the title doing the most effective, pointed work. Teen Vogue’s stuff was culturally impactful, but less focused on investigating the administration. Within the Condé portfolio, Wired and the New Yorker are the canaries.
New: Conde Nast fired four employees who were among a group that confronted the company's head of human resources on Wednesday over the decision to fold Teen Vogue into Vogue/recent cuts. Employees who were fired included journalists from the New Yorker, Wired, and Bon Appétit.
November 6, 2025 at 6:08 PM
The key thing to watch here: they fired a Wired political reporter. That’s the title doing the most effective, pointed work. Teen Vogue’s stuff was culturally impactful, but less focused on investigating the administration. Within the Condé portfolio, Wired and the New Yorker are the canaries.
Cybersecurity professionals/ransomware negotiators turned out to be running a ransomware gang. breached.company/when-the-def...
When the Defenders Become the Attackers: Cybersecurity Experts Indicted for BlackCat Ransomware Operations
The Shocking Case That's Rocking the Cybersecurity Industry
In a stunning turn of events that reads like a cybercrime thriller, three former employees of cybersecurity incident response companies hav...
breached.company
November 5, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Cybersecurity professionals/ransomware negotiators turned out to be running a ransomware gang. breached.company/when-the-def...
Ice Cube's Good Day was, in fact, about November 4th 2025.
November 5, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Ice Cube's Good Day was, in fact, about November 4th 2025.
If you are shocked that I'm happy that a man responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people is dead, I have terrible news for you about all of my other opinions.
November 4, 2025 at 8:49 PM
If you are shocked that I'm happy that a man responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people is dead, I have terrible news for you about all of my other opinions.
I'm stuck at home with a back injury and the world is a trash fire, but at least Dick Cheney is dead. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
His Works Completed, Dick Cheney, Mass Murderer of Iraqis and American Democracy, Dies
As much as the Trumpists claim to disavow the War on Terror, they walk a path paved by the most powerful vice president in U.S. history.
www.thenation.com
November 4, 2025 at 8:33 PM
I'm stuck at home with a back injury and the world is a trash fire, but at least Dick Cheney is dead. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
If you read an amazing article from Teen Vogue about politics in the last several years, chances are that Lex McMenamin wrote it. Any publication that is serious about meeting this moment would be lucky to have them.
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 9:42 PM
If you read an amazing article from Teen Vogue about politics in the last several years, chances are that Lex McMenamin wrote it. Any publication that is serious about meeting this moment would be lucky to have them.
I can now consistently hold a freestanding handstand for 20 seconds. One day I will take up a hobby which does not require months of practice for incremental progress.
October 31, 2025 at 4:23 AM
I can now consistently hold a freestanding handstand for 20 seconds. One day I will take up a hobby which does not require months of practice for incremental progress.
GrapheneOS is great and I recommend it all the time for Android users who are concerned about spying by governments and law enforcement.
"We’ve reached out to Google to inquire about why a custom ROM created by volunteers [@grapheneos.org] is more resistant to industrial phone hacking than the official Pixel OS. We’ll update this article if Google has anything to say." arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...
Leaker reveals which Pixels are vulnerable to Cellebrite phone hacking
Cellebrite can apparently extract data from most Pixel phones, unless they’re running GrapheneOS.
arstechnica.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:33 AM
GrapheneOS is great and I recommend it all the time for Android users who are concerned about spying by governments and law enforcement.
Every person involved in this decision needs to be hit over the head with a copy of Kashmir Hill's "Your Face Belongs to Us" until they come to their senses.
New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
October 29, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Every person involved in this decision needs to be hit over the head with a copy of Kashmir Hill's "Your Face Belongs to Us" until they come to their senses.
Hacking Team, now Memento Labs, is still at it. Operation Forum Troll targeted media outlets, universities, research centers, government organizations, financial institutions, and other organizations in Russia. securelist.com/forumtroll-a...
Mem3nt0 mori – The Hacking Team is back!
Kaspersky researchers discovered previously unidentified commercial Dante spyware developed by Memento Labs (formerly Hacking Team) and linked it to the ForumTroll APT attacks.
securelist.com
October 27, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Hacking Team, now Memento Labs, is still at it. Operation Forum Troll targeted media outlets, universities, research centers, government organizations, financial institutions, and other organizations in Russia. securelist.com/forumtroll-a...
I'd be very interested in hear what Russian security researchers have to say about this.
Regulation of white hat hackers is coming soon to Russia. The FSB will be able to set requirements for white hats: those who do not comply with them will be banned from working. Programmers will have to share the found "gaps" in information protection with both the company and the special services
October 27, 2025 at 7:09 PM
I'd be very interested in hear what Russian security researchers have to say about this.
I regret not buying a My Marxist Feminist Dialectic Brings All the Boys to the Yard poster because I have some free wall space next to my It's a Slow Apocalypse, You'll Work Through It poster.
October 26, 2025 at 2:36 AM
I regret not buying a My Marxist Feminist Dialectic Brings All the Boys to the Yard poster because I have some free wall space next to my It's a Slow Apocalypse, You'll Work Through It poster.
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House Republicans James Comer and Nancy Mace wrote a letter to TeaOnHer founder Xavier Lampkin demanding answers about the app's poor cybersecurity practices, citing my TechCrunch story earlier this year that found the app exposing users’ gov't-issued IDs and selfies. therecord.media/teaonher-app...
October 24, 2025 at 6:06 PM
House Republicans James Comer and Nancy Mace wrote a letter to TeaOnHer founder Xavier Lampkin demanding answers about the app's poor cybersecurity practices, citing my TechCrunch story earlier this year that found the app exposing users’ gov't-issued IDs and selfies. therecord.media/teaonher-app...
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Exploit development shop Trenchant, owned by L3Harris, lost a bunch of internal tools in a “damaging leak” recently. A former employee was targeted with spyware, he claims the company designated him as a scapegoat. This should be bigger news, imo. techcrunch.com/2025/10/21/a...
October 22, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Exploit development shop Trenchant, owned by L3Harris, lost a bunch of internal tools in a “damaging leak” recently. A former employee was targeted with spyware, he claims the company designated him as a scapegoat. This should be bigger news, imo. techcrunch.com/2025/10/21/a...
If you think that Signal is an op and totally backdoored, my recommendation is that you should plan all of your crimes over Telegram group chat.
October 23, 2025 at 5:26 AM
If you think that Signal is an op and totally backdoored, my recommendation is that you should plan all of your crimes over Telegram group chat.
If you live in San Francisco, today is a good day to familiarize yourself with the San Francisco Rapid Response Network, which has a 24-hour hotline for reporting ICE raids, actually verifies those raid reports, and does attorney activation: sfilen.org/resources/sf...
SFILEN
San Francisco Immigrant Legal & Education Network
sfilen.org
October 23, 2025 at 4:57 AM
If you live in San Francisco, today is a good day to familiarize yourself with the San Francisco Rapid Response Network, which has a 24-hour hotline for reporting ICE raids, actually verifies those raid reports, and does attorney activation: sfilen.org/resources/sf...
The primary advantage of using Signal over WhatsApp is that Signal does not store metadata. Just sayin'.
www.forbes.com/sites/the-wi...
www.forbes.com/sites/the-wi...
How ICE Spies On WhatsApp
ICE’s HSI division gets contacts from the WhatsApp account of a fake ID dealer and has little trouble identifying them, according to warrant.
www.forbes.com
October 23, 2025 at 1:54 AM
The primary advantage of using Signal over WhatsApp is that Signal does not store metadata. Just sayin'.
www.forbes.com/sites/the-wi...
www.forbes.com/sites/the-wi...
Attempted to take public transit out of downtown San Francisco at rush hour. I regret to report that RTO is in full force, so I guess downtown is back, baby?
October 23, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Attempted to take public transit out of downtown San Francisco at rush hour. I regret to report that RTO is in full force, so I guess downtown is back, baby?
Started to end a meeting with "It's ok, I'm good..." stopped myself and got too real: "Don't worry. I'm beyond help."
October 22, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Started to end a meeting with "It's ok, I'm good..." stopped myself and got too real: "Don't worry. I'm beyond help."
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ChatGPT’s new Atlas browser doesn’t just see what you read — it remembers it.
@eff.org’s Lena Cohen showed me it even logged “memories” of her looking for *abortion care* and her doctor’s name. Out-surveils even Chrome.
My @washingtonpost.com column: wapo.st/49bOcVC
@eff.org’s Lena Cohen showed me it even logged “memories” of her looking for *abortion care* and her doctor’s name. Out-surveils even Chrome.
My @washingtonpost.com column: wapo.st/49bOcVC
Column | ChatGPT just came out with its own web browser. Use it with caution.
OpenAI’s Atlas promises AI-powered convenience. The price? Letting ChatGPT track and store “memories” of what you do online.
wapo.st
October 22, 2025 at 4:19 PM
ChatGPT’s new Atlas browser doesn’t just see what you read — it remembers it.
@eff.org’s Lena Cohen showed me it even logged “memories” of her looking for *abortion care* and her doctor’s name. Out-surveils even Chrome.
My @washingtonpost.com column: wapo.st/49bOcVC
@eff.org’s Lena Cohen showed me it even logged “memories” of her looking for *abortion care* and her doctor’s name. Out-surveils even Chrome.
My @washingtonpost.com column: wapo.st/49bOcVC