“James Comey’s rights and liberties are not the only ones at risk today. So is your own right to participate in free and fair elections in order to render a verdict on Trump’s invasion of those rights and liberties.” From @davidfrum.bsky.social apple.news/AX8_ub4UHR0G...

Happy to share that Amazon Cyber Threat Intelligence (ACTI) is hiring our first role in Dublin, Ireland! 🇮🇪 This role will provide threat intel support for the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (ESC). Dublin-based, open to current EU citizens, and with relocation available. amazon.jobs/en/jobs/3089...

Glad to see not every country is powerless to hold coup leaders to account - “Bolsonaro Sentenced to 27 Years in Prison for Plotting Coup in Brazil” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/w...

This morning, Amazon Cyber Threat Intelligence published a report about a recent watering hole attack by APT29 🇷🇺 that we discovered targeting Microsoft device code authentication. Proud of the work of the team and the chance to share this with the community! aws.amazon.com/blogs/securi...

“The driving principle here is obvious: In a free society, people should know who is policing them.” apple.news/ATQz-Wb-hQom...

How Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ Will Make China Great Again www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/o...

Use Signal. We promise, no AI clutter, and no surveillance ads, whatever the rest of the industry does. <3

😳😮😲. As the Joe Turns

Well-done by @billmarczak.org and @jsrailton.bsky.social at @citizenlab.ca! citizenlab.ca/2025/06/firs...

Many moons ago, I was a federal agent. I arrested people. And you know how many times I did that while hiding my face and refusing to identify myself? Never. apple.news/A8NMRFx2mRua...

Happy @sleuthcon.bsky.social SLEUTHCON Day to those who celebrate! Hope to see many of you there! #SLEUTHCON

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One week until @sleuthcon.bsky.social! Hope to see many of you at the best cybercrime conference of the year. (And grab a ticket while you still can!) #SLEUTHCON

“I dOn’T ThInK I eVeR MeT hIm”

David Brooks gets it. “It’s time for a comprehensive national civic uprising. It’s time for Americans…to form one coordinated mass movement. Trump is about power. The only way he’s going to be stopped is if he’s confronted by some movement that possesses rival power.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/o...

NEW: In an 11th hour move, CISA spokesperson says the agency extended the contract for the MITRE-backed CVE Program last night:

I was traveling when @sleuthcon.bsky.social’s CFP and registration opened (and when this amazing challenge coin came in the mail). Sign up to present and/or attend and join the best cybercrime conference each year, bar none!

World’s worst parent and it’s a high bar.

Happy to share that, as of next month, I’ve been promoted to Senior Manager (L7) with an expanded scope across Amazon CTI’s analysis teams. We’re looking for managers for two teams, AWS and incident response threat intel. Technical, in-office, US-based. DM with questions! amazon.jobs/en/jobs/2918...

No honor among this crowd. Cowards, all of them.

It means a lot, to me and to everyone who works so hard to make Signal happen every day, to hear this from a legend like @matthewdgreen.bsky.social 💐

So here’s a simple request to Apple. Apple iMessage needs to enable “disappearing messages.” And they need to do it soon. blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2025/03/01/d...

America First means America Alone. America First means America Amoral. America First means America Weaker. Abroad, America First means America aligned with dictators. At home, America First means government by plutocrats, crooks, and foreign stooges.

Both unsurprising given the administration’s swing toward the authoritarian bloc, and yet also so shocking. You can bet Russia has no such illusions and isn’t unilaterally backing down. therecord.media/hegseth-orde...

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To be clear, I believe that the US should be thanking Zelenskyy and Ukraine for standing up and defending freedom. They’re the ones bearing this burden in lives and disruption. It’s only the small and insecure who think they should be thanking us.

Trump and Vance are not selling out Ukraine because of anything Zelenskyy said to them. Trump and Vance are selling out Ukraine because of things Putin and Musk said to them.

GLENN: Why don't you wear a suit? You're at the highest level in this country's office & you refuse to wear a suit. A lot of Americans have problems with you not respecting the office. ZELENSKYY: I will wear a costume after this war will finish. Maybe something like yours. Maybe something better.

I’m a fan of this being called the “Deconstruction Era” as well. No clearer sense of the damage being done than that.

Wish I could be in Taipei for @rightscon.org this week, but sadly travel schedules just didn’t work. Good luck and have a fantastic time to those who are there!

What a bunch of cowards. apple.news/AhxOFS1p-TWC...

this is the sort of thing you post when you’re ramping up to defying lawful court orders

Old me: Elon’s contributions to electric cars outweigh his negatives. New me: Elon’s single-minded destruction of the United States in the pursuit of cutting costs outweighs his electric cars.

“Two weeks into a fast-moving coup by a South African tech oligarch, the USA hangs suspended this weekend in a liminal state between the constitutional republic it has been for 249 years and an authoritarian regime akin to Europe’s fallen democracy, Hungary.” www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/white-nati...

For friends who are in the federal government, this is a very good guide on why you should be using Signal. In short, it’s safe and it’s free! a.wholelottanothing.org/a-guide-to-u...

“Elon Musk is not the president, but it does appear that he—a foreign-born, unelected billionaire who was not confirmed by Congress—is exercising profound influence over the federal government of the United States…It is nothing short of an administrative coup.” www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Sen. Tim Kaine tells federal employees to ignore Trump’s offer to quit with pay for months. “Don’t be fooled. He’s tricked hundreds of people with that offer. If you accept that offer and resign he’ll stiff you just like he stiffed the contractors. He doesn’t have any authority to do this.”

Lumen has discovered a piece of malware on Juniper enterprise routers and VPN gateways Named J-magic, the backdoor uses five different predefined magic packets and a certificate-based challenge before allowing attackers to connect to the compromised devices blog.lumen.com/the-j-magic-...

Breaking news: Israel and Hamas have agreed to a ceasefire deal, in a major breakthrough including the release of Israeli hostages, a senior U.S. official said Wednesday, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive negotiations.

Check out this talk from the Objective by the Sea 🍏- security conference. Citizen Lab senior researcher @billmarczak.org and @microsoft.com's Christine Fossaceca discuss the discovery of QuaDream’s spyware and the zero-click exploit likely used to deliver it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iyz5...

Regulation matters

For the #threatintel crowd, I’m hiring two cyber threat intel engineers for AWS Threat Intelligence! US-based, full-time from offices in the DC area, Austin, and Seattle. All backgrounds encouraged to apply. Can’t beat the scope or impact of the work. Let me know if you have questions! 👇

I’m generally bullish on the use of GenAI to make our lives better. I also really appreciate Apple’s notification summaries. Less so this: scam SMS comes in and is summarized, but whereas the initial language was “scammy,” Apple Intelligence “upscales” it to be more professional in the process.

A big heartfelt thank you from all of us at Signal to every person who has ever used Signal, gotten your friends to make the switch, and donated to support our work. It is truly an honor to build Signal for you. 💙

I got to briefly meet Jimmy Carter when he gave his annual Carter Town Hall at Emory University and I was doing crowd control for the campus Police. I cherish the fact I got to see firsthand how kind, warm, and genuine he was, even in passing. The most Christlike man this ex-Christian may ever meet.

My favorite holiday-time workstream: spending some cycles on more obscure and/or neglected APT cyber threat countries of origin. If I won the lottery and never had to work another day tomorrow, I’d still volunteer to hunt for C-tier national cyber threat programs. Future #threatintel talk material!

Merry Christmas from us to you 🎄🎁💙 We launched Trending Topics today, and you can find it by tapping the search icon on the bottom bar of the app or the right sidebar on desktop.

I also got this at 7! We weren’t allowed to have video games, but anything on the computer was fair game. And now I work in computers and still love BattleTech, so I guess it all worked out

Highly recommend @michelawrong.bsky.social’s excellent book on the subject, too: www.amazon.com/dp/154170321...