av Mikael Winterkvist | mar 13, 2021 | Lästips
En av de som grundat vart moderna nät, Internet, Tim Berners-Lee, skriver i ett öppet brev för att fira att nätet nu fyller 32 år att för många inte har tillgång till Internet – inte minst är det många unga som inte regelbundet kan använda ett nät som många av oss tar för givet.
En tredjedel av alla unga har idag inte tillgång, regelbundet, till Internet:
“A third of young people have no internet access at all. Many more lack the data, devices and reliable connection they need to make the most of the web. In fact, only the top third of under-25s have a home internet connection, according to Unicef, leaving 2.2 billion young people without the stable access they need to learn online, which has helped so many others continue their education during the pandemic.”
The Guardian
För givet
2.2 miljarder människor har idag inget nät på det sätt som vi andra tar närmast för givet.
The Guardian
av Mikael Winterkvist | mar 10, 2021 | Lästips
Al Jazeera publicerar uppgifter om att militären i Bangladesh köp in utrustning från israeliska Cellebrite – utrustning som kan användas för att hacka mobiltelefoner. Uppgifterna publiceras i samarbete med den israeliska tidningen Haaretz och de är anmärkningsvärda därför att Bangladesh är en hård, repressiv regim och en regim som förbjuder alla kontakter med Israel.
Bangladesh har ett uttryckligt förbud mot att göra affärer med Israel och kläderna har inga diplomatiska förbindelser. Trots det så har militären i Bangladesh köpt in utrustning och mjukvara från Cellebrite, ett israeliskt företag.
Bangladesh does not recognise the state of Israel, forbids trade with it and prevents its citizens from travelling there. The Muslim-majority country officially stands in solidarity with the Palestinians on the basis they are denied civil rights and live under Israeli military occupation.
It is unclear whether UFED was provided to Bangladesh directly by the Israeli company or via a Cellebrite subsidiary based elsewhere in the world, presumably with the intention to mask its origins.
Al Jazeera
av Mikael Winterkvist | feb 14, 2021 | Lästips
Amerikanska Wired har lyckats att få några av de som köper och säljer buggar, Zero-Day, att uttala sig. Anonymt men dock de har pratat med tidningen och berättat om till mesta dels helt dold marknad.
Det handlar om okända buggar, Zero-Day, som inte åtgärdats, patchats och som fortfarande kan exploateras. Buggar som kan användas för att kapa enheter, begå intrång och som av det skälet köps och säljs, dyrt. Det finns till med med regelrätta mäklare som förmedlar information och kunskap om sådana här buggar.
GETTING TO THE bottom of the zero-day market was a fool’s errand, they told me. When it came to zero-days, secret vulnerabilities in code, governments weren’t regulators; they were clients. These holes made up the raw material for their espionage tools and cyberweapons. They had little incentive to disclose a highly secretive program, which dealt in highly secretive goods, to a reporter like me. “You’re going to run into a lot of walls, Nicole,” Leon Panetta, the secretary of defense at the time, warned me. Michael Hayden, the former NSA director, laughed when I told him what I was up to. “Good luck,” he said, with an audible pat on the back.
Wired
av Mikael Winterkvist | feb 13, 2021 | Lästips
The New Yorker har intervjuat en av de mer framträdande personerna under attacken mot Kapitolium – en kvinna i rosa mössa. Hon visar sig vara en fyrabarnsmor från Pennsylvania som använde Facebook för att diskutera yoga, hälsa och andra relaterade ämnen fram till för ett år sedan då¨hennes inlägg fylldes med vilda konspirationsteorier.
The New Yorkes intervju visar hur en rätt vanlig mamma radikaliseras och hur det görs via Facebook.
A Pennsylvania Mother’s Path to Insurrection
Before the pandemic, Rachel Powell, a forty-year-old mother of eight from western Pennsylvania, sold cheese and yogurt at local farmers’ markets and used Facebook mostly to discuss yoga, organic food, and her children’s baseball games. But, last year, Powell began to post more frequently, embracing more extreme political views. Her interests grew to include conspiracy theories about covid-19 and the results of the Presidential election, filtered through such figures as Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, and the Infowars founder Alex Jones.
On May 3, 2020, Powell wrote on Facebook, “One good thing about this whole CV crisis is that I suddenly feel very patriotic.” Expressing outrage at the restrictions that accompanied the pandemic, she wrote, “It isn’t to late to wake up, say no, and restore freedoms.” Several days later, she posted a distraught seven-minute video, shot outside a local gym that had been closed. “Police need to see there’s people that are citizens that are not afraid of you guys showing up in your masks. We’re going to be here banded together, and we’re not afraid of you,” she said. “Maybe they should be a little bit afraid.”
Källa: A Pennsylvania Mother’s Path to Insurrection
av Mikael Winterkvist | feb 1, 2021 | Lästips
Donald Trump ansågs vara en tillgång av den ryska underrättelsetjänsten i över 40 år och ryssarna sig noga till att kartlägga Trumps svagheter.
I ett längre reportage berättar brittiska The Guardian om ryssarnas intresse för Donald Trump och de har öven intervjuat en före detta KGB-agent.
Donald Trump was cultivated as a Russian asset over 40 years and proved so willing to parrot anti-western propaganda that there were celebrations in Moscow, a former KGB spy has told the Guardian.
Yuri Shvets, posted to Washington by the Soviet Union in the 1980s, compares the former US president to “the Cambridge five”, the British spy ring that passed secrets to Moscow during the second world war and early cold war.
Now 67, Shvets is a key source for American Kompromat, a new book by journalist Craig Unger, whose previous works include House of Trump, House of Putin. The book also explores the former president’s relationship with the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.
“This is an example where people were recruited when they were just students and then they rose to important positions; something like that was happening with Trump,” Shvets said by phone on Monday from his home in Virginia.
av Mikael Winterkvist | jan 24, 2021 | Lästips
Facebook, Twitter, Instagram och Twitch har stängt ut Donald Trump vilket betyder att just nu så har vi ett nät utan Trump.
HOW HUMANS CONNECT is determined by the prevailing mediums of their era. In the political sphere, beginning in the 1930s, President Franklin D. Roosevelt leveraged public radio for his “fireside chats.” Later, John F. Kennedy and Barack Obama drew on the visual charm of TV, where they excelled as gifted orators. Not all presidents are as adept at using the tools afforded to them, but there are certain political figures who understand the rhythms of the time they inhabit better than others.
That includes Donald Trump. He was made from TV and thus the ideal avatar for an internet populace that feeds on the unpredictable theatrics of its public figures. With the guile of an arrogant con man, he played to an increasingly fractured nation using social media. Trump took a distinct liking to Twitter, where he adopted the rhetorical flair of a WWE brawler. He wasn’t just the reality-TV president; it was that he lived somewhere beyond actual reality. Online, he was seemingly omnipresent: in meme form and GIFs, hectoring in soundbites, mocked on Saturday Night Live. In time, it began to feel like Trump was the only fixed point around which all of us orbited, even as many tried to avoid his dangerous pull.
Amerikanska Wired har tagit sig en titt på nätet utan ett av dessa värsta troll på senare år – Donald Trump.
Wired
