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Robert O’Neill’s The Operator: Firing the Shots That Killed Osama Bin Laden and My Years as a SEAL Team Warrior (O’Neill 2017).
David Tucker • United States Special Operations Forces
New: Vince Ramos wanted Phantom Secure to be the Uber of privacy-focused phones—flood the market and figure out laws later. Then the FBI investigated him. Based on Phantom sources, internal docs, FBI files, years of reporting, this is "The Network" https://t.co/cmtWxmxW7o
Joseph Coxx.comhis feisty
Walter Isaacson • Steve Jobs
Sen. Mark Warner, chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, calls Salt Typhoon “worst telecom hack in our nation’s history”
The Chinese state-affiliated hackers moved from telco network to another. They listened in real-time to calls. 1/ https://t.co/OJqY7WqzNj
Ellen Nakashimax.comTo worship at the altar of mega-scale and to convince yourself that you should be the one making world-historic decisions on behalf of a global citizenry that did not elect you and may not share your values or lack thereof, you have to dispense with numerous inconveniences—humility and nuance among them. Many titans of Silicon Valley have made
... See moreIn the end, the NHS—and the world—caught a lucky break. A twenty-two-year-old British hacker called Marcus Hutchins stumbled on a kill switch.
Mustafa Suleyman • The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
Gore Vidal was celebrated as one of the 20th Century's greatest literary figures, and beloved by left-liberals.
But in the 1990s, he realized - from Waco and Ruby Ridge - the US Security State's domestic menace.
This 1998 essay is... See more