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“Another area that worries
#UK
security officials is China's predilection for spying on dissidents, known as
#transnationalrepression
, something that has been a primary target for Chinese intelligence for years with a focus on groups like
#Tibetan
campaigners.”
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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2 months ago
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US tech enabled China’s
#surveillance
empire. Now
#Tibetan
refugees in Nepal are paying the price
www.independent.co.uk/news/nepal-c...
@dakekang.bsky.social
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US tech enabled China’s surveillance empire. Now Tibetan refugees in Nepal are paying the price
Nepal is just one of at least 150 countries to which Chinese companies are supplying surveillance technology, from cameras in Vietnam to censorship firewalls in Pakistan to citywide monitoring systems...
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/nepal-china-chinese-hikvision-huawei-b2888175.html
17 days ago
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Turquoise Roof
6 days ago
No passive utopia: Tibetan Sky, by Ning Ken, reviewed Tibet is portrayed as an uneasy cultural crossroads where globalisation, spirituality and the political traumas of two peoples collide in this sardonic, erudite novel
www.spectator.com.au/2026/01/no-p...
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No passive utopia: Tibetan Sky, by Ning Ken, reviewed | The Spectator Australia
We often forget to ascribe agency to modern Tibet. Politically, it seems to lie mute in the behemoth shadow of…
https://www.spectator.com.au/2026/01/no-passive-utopia-tibetan-sky-by-ning-ken-reviewed/
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US tech enabled China’s
#surveillance
empire. Now
#Tibetan
refugees in Nepal are paying the price
www.independent.co.uk/news/nepal-c...
@dakekang.bsky.social
/AP
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US tech enabled China’s surveillance empire. Now Tibetan refugees in Nepal are paying the price
Nepal is just one of at least 150 countries to which Chinese companies are supplying surveillance technology, from cameras in Vietnam to censorship firewalls in Pakistan to citywide monitoring systems...
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/nepal-china-chinese-hikvision-huawei-b2888175.html
17 days ago
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evacide
19 days ago
The US TikTok sale has been signed. The company will be controlled by a joint venture including Oracle, Silver Lake, Andreessen Horowitz, Abu Dhabi-based MGX. Adding a UAE company really makes it clear that this was never about national security concerns.
www.axios.com/2025/12/18/t...
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Scoop: TikTok signs deal for sale of U.S. unit after yearslong saga
The deal would end a yearslong saga to force TikTok's Chinese parent ByteDance to sell the company's U.S. operation.
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/18/tiktok-sale
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Alison Killing
25 days ago
In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites. He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
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ICE Holding Chinese Man Who Documented Uyghur Camps
Heng Guan is awaiting an immigration hearing on Monday that could lead to his removal from the U.S. and ultimately land him back in China, according to his lawyer and a New York-based activist group.
https://www.wsj.com/world/china/ice-holding-chinese-man-who-documented-uyghur-camps-a4702045?st=w7ZTZ9&reflink=article_copyURL_share
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A Chinese official exposed his boss. Now in Texas, he’s hunted by Beijing - with help from US tech
apnews.com/article/whis...
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A Chinese official exposed his boss. Now in Texas, he’s hunted by Beijing - with help from US tech
Retired Chinese official Li Chuanliang fled to the U.S. seeking asylum, fearing persecution from the Chinese government.
https://apnews.com/article/whistleblower-china-surveillance-tech-silicon-valley-adbd0bcfbb0892bfcb85948acb3f515f
25 days ago
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Fergus Ryan
about 1 month ago
Our new ASPI report 'The Party’s AI' is out now. It shows how China’s LLMs, vision models and “AI+” governance architecture are hard-coding censorship and control into the future of AI.
www.aspi.org.au/repo...
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China Digital Times
28 days ago
CNN – China’s censorship and surveillance were already intense. AI is turbocharging those systems
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China’s censorship and surveillance were already intense. AI is turbocharging those systems | CNN
Chinese authorities are using artificial intelligence to turbocharge surveillance and censorship, with the technology predicting public demonstrations and monitoring prison inmates, according to a new...
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/12/04/china/china-ai-censorship-surveillance-report-intl-hnk
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The Wall Street Journal
about 1 month ago
A WSJ analysis of satellite images shows clear evidence of the Chinese military’s expanding footprint through a network of facilities that dot the Tibetan plateau.
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Chinese Forces Battle Dizzying Altitudes to Expand Military Footprint
A Wall Street Journal analysis of more than 100 satellite images shows clear evidence of the country’s expanding air power and reach.
https://on.wsj.com/48zv8i7
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Turquoise Roof
about 1 month ago
Congratulations to Gesbeen Mohammad, Guy Creasey, Sofia Fernandez Vyas, & Esella Hawkey for winning the ARTS & CULTURE STORY OF THE YEAR in the
@fpalondon.bsky.social
Media Awards 2025 for their film: Inside China: The Battle for Tibet ITV/FrontlinePBS/@hardcash.bsky.social
www.fpalondon-awards.org
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“Another area that worries
#UK
security officials is China's predilection for spying on dissidents, known as
#transnationalrepression
, something that has been a primary target for Chinese intelligence for years with a focus on groups like
#Tibetan
campaigners.”
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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2 months ago
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Open Technology Fund
3 months ago
An op-ed in
@thedispatchmedia.bsky.social
by former Congressional staffer Grant Mullins tells the history of how Rep. McCaul & Sen. Blackburn championed the Open Technology Fund Authorization Act -- and what we've been able to accomplish since its enactment.
thedispatch.com/article/open...
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Why the Open Technology Fund Is Worth Saving
The government-funded nonprofit has helped millions living under authoritarianism access the internet safely.
https://thedispatch.com/article/open-technology-internet-china-iran/
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Turquoise Roof
4 months ago
Our latest case of
#transnationalrepression
: a young Chinese woman studying in France has disappeared some seven weeks ago while on a trip to visit her family in Hunan province. She is an editor for the digital platform “Chinese Youth Stand for Tibet” (CYST)
www.tibetanreview.net/chinese-intl...
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Donald Clarke
3 months ago
Jerome A. Cohen, 1930-2025
donaldclarke.substack.com/p/jerome-a-c...
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Jerome A. Cohen, 1930-2025
On Monday night I received the very sad news that Jerome Cohen had passed away that day at 95.
https://donaldclarke.substack.com/p/jerome-a-cohen-1930-2025
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Joseph Menn
4 months ago
Print version of my dive into the growing threats of hackers getting access to victim organizations’
#AI
. Thanks to experts from NCC, SentinelOne, Endor and elsewhere.
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Josh Chin
4 months ago
This is yet another story about authoritarianism — but one that hits a little different. Phurba is resilience incarnate, a person born for these times. And his tale is bonkers. I hope you enjoy reading it as much we did reporting it. Gift link:
www.wsj.com/world/asia/t...
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The Daring Caper of a Faithful Tibetan Who Outfoxed China
He escaped from police and crossed thousands of miles of wilderness on a decadelong odyssey toward freedom.
https://www.wsj.com/world/asia/tibet-china-dalai-lama-78ecc180?st=SFshsx&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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Open Technology Fund
4 months ago
“This is very frightening,”
@interseclab.bsky.social
's Marla Rivera explained the technical details of new
@opentechfund.bsky.social
- supported research into Geedge Networks’ censorship and surveillance technologies to
@wired.com
.
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Michael
4 months ago
so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining
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Turquoise Roof
4 months ago
The Chinese artificial intelligence engine
#DeepSeek
often refuses to help programmers or gives them code with major security flaws when they say they are working for
#Tibetans
, or other communities considered sensitive by the Chinese government, new
@crowdstrike.com
research shows:
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Financial Times
4 months ago
Exclusive: China’s internet regulator has told the country’s biggest technology companies to stop buying Nvidia’s artificial intelligence chips
on.ft.com/468o6Rv
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Dake Kang
4 months ago
1/THREAD: @AP has published our investigation into how US tech firms enabled China’s digital police state. We obtained multiple, massive leaks of internal and classified Chinese government and corporate documents running into the tens of thousands:
apnews.com/article/chin...
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Silicon Valley enabled brutal mass detention and surveillance in China, internal documents show
U.S. technology firms such as IBM, Dell and Cisco largely designed and built China’s surveillance state, an AP investigation finds. The tech companies deny wrongdoing.
https://apnews.com/article/chinese-surveillance-silicon-valley-uyghurs-tech-xinjiang-8e000601dadb6aea230f18170ed54e88
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Open Technology Fund
4 months ago
New @opentechfund.bsky.social-supported research from
@interseclab.bsky.social
and partners uncovers how Chinese company Geedge Networks is exporting a comprehensive, turnkey surveillance and censorship system worldwide. Learn more:
buff.ly/R7FJAyD
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Silicon Valley’s Surveillance Technology Transfer Problem (Davi Ottenheimer)
www.flyingpenguin.com?p=72174
4 months ago
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China controls ~70% of global cellular
#IoT
modules. Dependence risks go beyond supply chains: firmware backdoors or sudden cut-offs could be weaponised, argues Charles Parton:
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The New York Times
4 months ago
In Opinion | “Even if you regard widespread surveillance as a reasonable precaution against crime, there is no way to be sure how this data could be used in the future, and no system in place to protect or regulate it,” Elizabeth Daniel Vasquez writes.
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Opinion | What You Need to Know About Police Surveillance
New tools allow law enforcement agencies to track us at an unimaginable scale.
https://nyti.ms/4npQzYS
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BeijingPalmer
4 months ago
the CCP is going to collapse after a cult forms around an AI chatbot claiming to be Jesus and 50 million people die.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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The chatbots claiming to be Jesus: spreading gospel or heresy?
Jesus chatbots aren't the only AI technologies seeping into religious practice. Some worshippers don't agree with the use of them.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02987-9
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China Digital Times
4 months ago
CDT Quote of the Week:
chinadigitaltimes.net/2025/09/inte...
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Turquoise Roof
4 months ago
#Surveillance
systems used to monitor
#Tibetans
are sometimes built with Silicon Valley technology- exported, repurposed, and weaponised for repression.
turquoiseroof.org/weaponising-...
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积至公司与MESA实验室:防火长城史上最大规模文件外泄分析
gfw.report/blog/geedge_...
@gfw.report.web.brid.gy
gfw.report/blog/geedge_...
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Geedge & MESA Leak: Analyzing the Great Firewall’s Largest Document Leak
The Great Firewall of China (GFW) experienced the largest leak of internal documents in its history on Thursday September 11, 2025. Over 500 GB of source code, work logs, and internal communication re...
https://gfw.report/blog/geedge_and_mesa_leak/en/
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Silicon Valley’s Surveillance Technology Transfer Problem (Davi Ottenheimer)
www.flyingpenguin.com?p=72174
4 months ago
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Catalin Cimpanu
4 months ago
Suspected Indian APT group Sidewinder is using the recent Nepalese Gen-Z protests to phish and infect with Android malware whatever is left of the local government
strikeready.com/blog/sidewin...
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Sidewinder APT leverages Nepal protests to push mobile malware
Sidewinder APT is leveraging the ongoing turmoil in Nepal to distribute mobile malware.
https://strikeready.com/blog/sidewinder-apt-leverages-nepal-protests-to-push-mobile-malware/
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Doctora Malka Older
4 months ago
look at the dismissive tone in this article (gift link). Is it because it's Nepal and not, say Taiwan? Because the protestors have been branded young? or just a determination to keep following the disingenuous line that the protests were about social media bans and now there's ✨irony✨?
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Nepal’s Social Media Ban Backfires as Politics Moves to a Chat Room
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/world/asia/nepal-protest-genz-discord.html?unlocked_article_code=1.lU8.9zAZ.Z0BDh4STqaS1&smid=url-share
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Global Voices
4 months ago
The Israeli military “offers an important insight into how the latest technologies can be adopted for widespread monitoring and control.”
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‘Smart’ (or Machiavellian?) surveillance: The power of terminology
The Israeli military “offers an important insight into how the latest technologies can be adopted for widespread monitoring and control.”
https://globalvoices.org/2025/09/03/smart-or-machiavellian-surveillance/
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Turquoise Roof
4 months ago
How Gen Z protestors chose
#Nepal
first woman PM on
#Discord
news.google.com/search?q=nep...
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Google News
Comprehensive up-to-date news coverage, aggregated from sources all over the world by Google News.
https://news.google.com/search?q=nepal+discord
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The retreat of the US from the
#InternetFreedom
agenda is not just a geopolitical shift but a normative collapse, argues Konstantinos Komaitis
www.techpolicy.press/the-us-just-...
@techpolicypress.bsky.social
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The US Just Logged Off from Internet Freedom | TechPolicy.Press
The retreat of the United States from the digital rights arena creates a vacuum that authoritarian states are eager to occupy, writes Konstantinos Komaitis.
https://www.techpolicy.press/the-us-just-logged-off-from-internet-freedom/
6 months ago
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In a matter of days,
#Nepal
has gone from a fragile democracy to a digital battleground where the future of the nation is being shaped not in parliament, but on
#Discord
servers, explains
@techschmuck.bsky.social
techpolicy.press/lessons-from...
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Lessons from Nepal on the High Cost of Controlling Online Expression | TechPolicy.Press
The Nepalese government attempted to control the information ecosystem and lost control of the state itself, writes Samik Kharel.
https://techpolicy.press/lessons-from-nepal-on-the-high-cost-of-controlling-online-expression
4 months ago
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RAND: (2014) Internet freedom gains
#resilience
from synergy across projects, and many small bets: a portfolio of diverse, redundant tools beat any single solution, any day.
#InternetFreedom
www.rand.org/pubs/researc...
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4 months ago
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Natto Thoughts
4 months ago
Our latest analysis digs into newly identified Salt Typhoon-linked companies, revealing the murky ecosystem of front firms and legitimate businesses that prop up Chinese state cyber operations. A beacon of clarity? Or just more questions in the storm?
nattothoughts.substack.com/p/salt-typho...
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Salt Typhoon: New Joint Advisory Offers a Beacon Through the Storm but Stirs Up New Questions
Analysis of newly identified Salt Typhoon-linked companies casts light on the complex ecosystem of front companies and real businesses supporting Chinese state cyber operations
https://nattothoughts.substack.com/p/salt-typhoon-new-joint-advisory-offers
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Marc Hofer
4 months ago
We did a little bit of an analysis of a leaked project mindmap that according to us, reveals some internals of a Chinese network range, operated by the Ministry of Public Security.
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CYBERWARCON
4 months ago
CYBERWARCON isn’t a typical hacker con or policy forum. It’s a one-day event focused on the destruction, disruption, and disinformation shaping the cyber threat landscape. Happening Wednesday, Nov 19, 2025, in Arlington, VA + virtually! Grab your spot or submit a talk proposal:
www.cyberwarcon.com
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visi stark
4 months ago
For the geolocation crowd, here's a recent google street view image of "The Lair" where it all happened 😁
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keep your electric eye on me
4 months ago
Conor Gearty dead? This is a great shock. One of the most important academic voices on
#HumanRights
in the UK and beyond.
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4 months ago
I spoke with
@whiskeyocelot.bsky.social
and
@chinafile.bsky.social
's Jessica Batke about their recent Locknet report, which provides a brilliant, concise, detailed but accessible overview of China's online censorship system.
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PRC lawmakers are this week considering a draft amendment to the country’s Cybersecurity Law that will introduce certification requirements for technology products, alongside more severe penalties for security shortcomings affecting critical sectors & sensitive data.
therecord.media/china-cybers...
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Chinese companies and bosses to face major fines over cybersecurity incidents
A proposed update to China's national Cybersecurity Law would give Beijing firmer oversight over tech products while increasing penalties for companies and executives that don't meet requirements.
https://therecord.media/china-cybersecurity-law-update-penalties-companies-executives
4 months ago
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China is piloting its
#Fengqiao
village
#surveillance
model in the Solomon Islands; collecting household data, fingerprints, and using community mapping in villages.
www.reuters.com/world/china/...
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China pilots village surveillance in Solomon Islands, seeks stability
China has exported its village surveillance model to the Solomon Islands in the Pacific, where Chinese police are piloting fingerprint and data collection to curb social unrest, officials and locals confirmed to Reuters.
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-pilots-village-surveillance-solomon-islands-seeks-stability-2025-09-11/
4 months ago
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From content generation to operational refinement, China-linked accounts are increasingly using generative AI to support influence operations, explains
@sarahgcook.bsky.social
thediplomat.com/2025/09/for-...
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For Beijing’s Foreign Disinformation, the Era of AI-Driven Operations Has Arrived
From content generation to operational refinement, China-linked accounts are increasingly using generative AI to support influence operations.
https://thediplomat.com/2025/09/for-beijings-foreign-disinformation-the-era-of-ai-driven-operations-has-arrived/
4 months ago
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In a matter of days,
#Nepal
has gone from a fragile democracy to a digital battleground where the future of the nation is being shaped not in parliament, but on
#Discord
servers, explains
@techschmuck.bsky.social
techpolicy.press/lessons-from...
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Lessons from Nepal on the High Cost of Controlling Online Expression | TechPolicy.Press
The Nepalese government attempted to control the information ecosystem and lost control of the state itself, writes Samik Kharel.
https://techpolicy.press/lessons-from-nepal-on-the-high-cost-of-controlling-online-expression
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Fascinating article by
@kimzetter.bsky.social
about the 2013 Mandiant APT 1 report that revealed the identities of the Chinese PLA threat actors behind the attacks. Q&A with the main report's architect reveals behind-the-scenes details. It's a great read!
www.zetter-zeroday.com/how-the-infa...
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How the Infamous APT 1 Report Exposing China’s PLA Hackers Came to Be
This is the first in a series of pieces I’ll publish that take an in-depth look at significant events, people and cases in security and surveillance from the past. If there’s something you think would...
https://www.zetter-zeroday.com/how-the-infamous-apt-1-report-exposing-chinas-pla-hackers-came-to-be/?ref=zero-day-newsletter
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Turquoise Roof
4 months ago
Our analysis of procurement notices revealed a
#surveillance
system that fuses data from existing PSB systems into a central
#Oracle
database. This system, developed on top of U.S. tech is instrumental in a campaign that criminalises Tibetan culture in
#Tibet
turquoiseroof.org/weaponising-...
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Tibet Watch
4 months ago
New report reveals a coordinated campaign targeting
#Tibetan
#Buddhist
institutions during the Dalai Lama's 90th birthday year. Senior monks disappeared, monasteries raided, and surveillance intensified across
#Tibet
. Full report:
tibetwatch.org/coordinated-...
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Coordinated campaign in Dalai Lama birthday year targets influential monks, Buddhist monasteries
A series of incidents across Tibet over recent months reveals an increasingly coordinated campaign of surveillance and suppression targeting Tibetan Buddhist institutions and leaders.
https://tibetwatch.org/coordinated-campaign-in-dalai-lama-birthday-year-targets-influential-monks-buddhist-monasteries/
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