Happy to have written this new blogpost from Brave Research, based on work at Internet Architecture Board, with Hamed Haddadi and Kyle Den Hartog. brave.com/blog/zkp-age... 1/3

Bluesky had zero funny dick Cheney joke today. I saw multiple good one on X.

Readers in Chinese-speaking regions can now gain deeper insights into our findings on Geedge's suite! Our report “The Internet Coup” is now available in Traditional Chinese (using Taiwanese terminology), thanks to the translation by @anoni.net. #GreatFirewallExport anoni.net/docs/report/...

More research being conducted on the Geedge Networks dataset. @domaintools.bsky.social started a series dissecting the Geedge leak and posted their 1st part out of 3. dti.domaintools.com/inside-the-g... #GFWExport

The Sydney Opera House spoiled us by uploading a recent concert by Beth Gibbons on their YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/watch?v=apAo...

TIL that it's not possible to register a foreign marriage if you're both foreigners but residents of Portugal. Okay?

Exclusive: US military officials required to sign NDAs tied to Latin America mission, sources say www.reuters.com/world/americ...

PBS did a great section on the Great Firewall Export, that we published together with @papertrailmedia.de @interseclab.bsky.social @justiceformyanmar.org @theglobeandmail.com @torproject.bsky.social and us @amnesty.org. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Next week (29–31 Oct), FIND’s Jack Parham joins @smex.org's Bread&Net in Beirut! Make sure you catch our two sessions: 🔎 Look Who’s Selling — workshop on investigating surveillance firms 🎤 Click, Load, Kill — panel on the cyberweapon industry in WANA 🔗 Register: breadandnet.org

The Netherlands is slipping on the democracy index and thats worrisome.

It's been quite a number of years since we've seen how the Pegasus client panel looks. Document from the WhatsApp lawsuit. (p15 storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...)

Weird times ahead...

Mass surveillance has become a consumer product. Our new blog post explores what 100,000+ leaked documents reveal about a new frontier in state control — and what it means for protecting privacy and digital security. Read more: interseclab.org/can-mass-sur... #GreatFirewallExport

The video of @droethlisberger.bsky.social and my @reconmtl.bsky.social 2025 talk, "A Trip to Ancient BABYLON", is now online! It's a fun story about a 2017-era iOS persistence exploit that we found in a Pegasus sample -- on VT (!!)

Alle - Kinderschutzbund, Jurist*innen, IT-Unternehmen, NGOs, Sicherheitsbranche - sind sich einig: Die #Chatkontrolle ist ineffektiv und gefährlich. Hier die Kritik von @amnesty.de

📢 Last Call für die Rettung der freien Kommunikation vor der #Chatkontrolle! BMI & BMJ entscheiden jetzt, wie Deutschland i.d. EU am 14.10. abstimmt - als Zünglein an der Waage. 💥Jetzt Ministerien kontaktieren: chat-kontrolle.eu/index.php/20... 💥& unterschreiben: weact.campact.de/petitions/ch...

🚨A NEW POLL released by @amnesty.org & @globalwitness.org suggests majority of Europeans favour human rights & environmental protection yet @ec.europa.eu is trying to roll these back #EU #CSDDD #HumanRights #climatejustice 🧵 Full results here: amn.st/eupublicopin... [1/8]

Technical Writeup: Signal Account Takeovers Phishing Campaign Targets Exiled Belarusian Activists 2025 – RESIDENT.NGO THREAT LAB https://resident.ngo/lab/writeups/signal-phishing-belarus-2025/

NEW: ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7, build dossiers on people, and flag them for arrest and deportation. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-so...

This peculiar and alarming. Labour leader @ivanabacik.bsky.social Ivana Bacik asks Justice Minister Jim O'Callaghan what he has done to ensure the DPC finally acts against the data free-for-all that sends people's movements to countless data brokers. vimeo.com/1124123069?f...

Spyware sold as “crime-fighting tech” is used to target journalists, activists & dissidents. Between 2011–23, 1/3 of countries bought it, with nearly every WANA state implicated. With @smex.org, we mapped vendors & profiteers so civil society and policymakers can pursue accountability.

Utimaco's 'lawful interception" division (that makes the LIMS software we just covered in our Shadows of Control report) got acquired by Invision AG and PINOVA. www.invision.ch/en/invision-...

Some companies don't reply to questions, but they change their website to remove any incriminating projects they work on :)

The Pakistani PTA just reacted to our reporting on the firewall (WMS 2.0). Which they denied is true, but at the same time they're admitting using it as a surveillance tool: www.arabnews.pk/node/2616727...

They all want to be China so bad.

If you're based in Berlin, there's an event this Tuesday on spyware, hosted by @amnestyuk.bsky.social and @papertrailmedia.de. It includes workshops by @donncha.is, @jurrevanbergen.nl, and others, drop-in sessions, and a panel. Tickets are still available: www.hebbel-am-ufer.de/programm/pde...

Why is Interpol part of an international forensics challenge together with Datatiko/SDIC Intelligence (formerly known as Meiya Pico) in Hong Kong? Meiya Pico is known aiding oppression in both Tibet, Xinjiang, Ningxia and Yunnan: turquoiseroof.org/download/a-l...

Very interesting development! SECO confirmed to us there was an investigation last year into the "intellexa world". Now it shows that Gambazzi was raided and was trying to keep the Swiss AG to not review seized documents. He lost the case. A first step into accountability!

Join us? 💥Workshops w/ @papertrailmedia.de @amnesty.de @interseclab.bsky.social 💥Dig. Security Clinic w/ @accessnow.org, @pressefreiheit.bsky.social&Tact. Tech 💥Panel w/ @donncha.is @sophieintveld.bsky.social @davidyambio.bsky.social @anjaosterhaus.bsky.social &Art by @forensicarchi.bsky.social

“In Pakistan, surveillance is part of the cost of being a journalist” www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ca...

If you were concerned about Kimmel, here's another for you… Journalist Mario Guevara has been detained for 100+ days, ironically arrested as he reported on a "No Kings" protest. The Trump-Vance admin just issued an order of final removal, to send him to El Salvador—where he fled from 21 years ago.

Trump's Executive Order on Antifa is written such that someone recording masked agents snatching people off the streets, or asking these agents what they're doing, can be deemed a "terrorist."

A leaked Project 2025 questionnaire database appears to reveal the books, thinkers, and dictators some Trump appointees most admire.

There we have it. Reuters is exclusively reporting that the U.S might sanction the whole ICC. www.reuters.com/world/europe...

📢 FIND is proud to have contributed to Amnesty International’s new report Shadows of Control: Censorship and Mass Surveillance in Pakistan. We supported the investigation by sharing and verifying open-source company and trade data. 🔗 Read the full report: www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

New from our partners at WAV, published with WOZ: Swiss-based surveillance tech firms linked to repressive regimes. FIND mapped corporate networks and supply chains to understand how these technologies are developed and traded. More research to follow. 👉 Full story: www.woz.ch/2535/ueberwa...

Even former AIVD agent Berrie Hanselman thinks it's ridiculous, Berrie followed left-wing groups for decades at the AIVD.

Come hear @interseclab.bsky.social, @papertrailmedia.de and Amnesty talk about our latest investigation the Great Firewall Export in Berlin on 30 September! www.hebbel-am-ufer.de/en/programme...

We lost another great musician. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...

Top: Tommy’s racist temper tantrum Bottom: Carnival Face rec is deployed along racial logics. Don’t want to read another haphazard study of how accurate the tech is; AI-driven policing is spatially and selectively configured to impart racial violence and selectively revoked to protect accomplices

It seems the leaked Geedge Networks data can be found on enlacehacktivista as discovered by gfw.report/blog/geedge_... - it seems to be the same material we got access to and we based the Great Firewall Export research on.

Has anyone written why the Nepal protests were so successful?

Join FIND Investigator Jack Parham at this year's Global Gathering in Portugal. Find us at the following sessions: 1. Today 13:00 – Disrupt the Business of Harm (w/ Freedom House + BHRRC) 2. Today 15:00 – Amnesty's Cross-Border Surveillance Tech Investigation 3. Tomorrow 13:30 – How We Investigate

As part of a consortium of researchers and journalists, I spent the better part of a year digging into leaked documents from Chinese security company Geedge, which plays a pivotal role exporting the Great Firewall around the world: www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/15c699a...

"AP found a Chinese defense contractor, Huadi, worked with IBM to design the main policing system known as the “Golden Shield” for Beijing to censor the internet … according to thousands of pages of classified government blueprints taken out of China by a whistleblower" apnews.com/article/chin...

Press Release 📣 Report reveals how China’s Geedge Networks and Myanmar telecoms companies are enabling the illegal junta’s digital terror campaign Read the report and press release on our website 👉🏽 buff.ly/u77rUHa #GreatFirewallExport #JusticeForMyanmar

New Research: Our investigation indicates that the Chinese company Geedge Networks is exporting mass surveillance and censorship technology to Myanmar, Pakistan, Kazakhstan and Ethiopia. #GreatFirewallExport (1/5)

Today's soundtrack is youtu.be/GCpm0Ktc87w

Read our new report The Internet Coup. The Great Firewall Export investigation is a joint collaboration with @amnesty.org, @papertrailmedia.de, @justiceformyanmar.org, @theglobeandmail.com, @ftm.eu, @derstandard.at and @torproject.org interseclab.org/research/the... .