Cryptocurrency is bad, and it’s not bad despite “the blockchain” but also because of the blockchain, which is actually not some great newfangled thing after all.
Tag: cybersecurity
Trump administration privatized ICE flights on airline with poor cybersecurity.
404 Media – GlobalX, Airline for Trump’s Deportations, Hacked Joseph Cox , Jason Koebler · May 6, 2025 at 9:00 AM Hackers have targeted GlobalX Air, one of the main airlines the Trump administration is using as part of its deportation efforts, and stolen what they say are flight records and passenger manifests of all of […]
Treasury Secretary says federal job cuts necessary because the US government was crowding out the private market.
“And this is an opportunity to right-size the federal government and unleash the private sector again, because it’s been hemmed down by excessive regulation, and it’s been crowded out by the government.” — Scott Bessent
More Elon Musk dog crew connection to organized cyber crime.
“Among its users was a website run by a ring of cybercriminals operating under the name “EGodly,” according to digital records preserved by the internet intelligence firm DomainTools and the online cybersecurity tool Any.Run.”
Even the guy who is Trump aligned and got promoted at Social Security for leaking to DOGE is worried now about DOGE.
We deserve to know what exactly Elon Musk’s hacker gang crew is doing at Social Security, and what “nuances” they don’t understand that may wind up wrecking things for senior citizens.
The surveillance state already exists, including at healthcare appointments.
Members of law enforcement agencies may have the ability to track the medical appointments of any patient of Kaiser Permanente (which owns Geisinger in Pennsylvania), without a warrant and without any probable cause, for any reason that may interest them.
Cyber gang member now in government cyber ingelligence agency.
The guy who previously was fired for cyber espionage now officially works in government agency with access to US intelligence on worldwide cyberthreats.
5G mmWave was big hype by big telecom -so many bought inferior and or more expensive phones for nothin.
The big telecoms and big tech companies need to be broken up.
DOGE employee’s past cyber breach and hacker gang activity.
Strange choice of inexperienced employees for an elite forensic accounting operation looking for fraud and waste. There are actual forensic accountants.
But her emails…
“Many workers suspected it was a phishing email and reported it to their IT departments.”
Trump administration’s central government email plan raises red flags.
Ken Klippenstein said that the new comms system made it possible for him to message the entirety of NOAA. That sounds off.
Community notes is not freedom and social media algorithms do not make for a community center.
Almost any flawed org, coffee klatch, or chat group is going to have more social ROI and less disinformation than mixing it up with fake accounts and targeted marketing on the big platforms.
Troll Farms, Sock Puppets, and Botnets – The Internet of Fakes
Don’t Wait For Everybody – Episode 005