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Meta Announces Attacks on 50,000 Accounts Targeted by Israeli Surveillance-for-Hire Companies Facebook Warned My Account Had Been Attacked, Likely by One of the Israeli Companies
Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, announced today that it had identified 50,000 Facebook accounts that had been attacked by at least seven companies engaged in spying-for-hire. This is a Hebrew report for Israeli readers. Among the companies was the Israeli Black Cube, which was implicated in the Rose McGowan case against Harvey Weinstein. […]
Taliban Social Media Accounts Banned After NY Times Inquired Why They Permitted Them
Yesterday, we sent Facebook, YT, and others accounts belonging to the Taliban spokesman. We asked for comment, and they responded by removing them. Today, the Taliban spokesman is complaining of censorship. Story coming soon on this… — Sheera Frenkel (@sheeraf) August 17, 2021 Earlier today, NY Times technology reporter, Sheera Frenkel, tweeted that she had […]
NSO Group’s State-Sponsored Cyber-Warfare
There are a number of economic systems in the world today. There are market economies in capitalist countries and the state-owned means of production in socialist countries. In each of these systems, the state intervenes to a greater or lesser extent. Israel is nominally a capitalist economy (with a socialist past). But I prefer to […]