Doctorow, "The infosec apocalypse is nigh"
*The infosec apocalypse is nigh* Cory Doctorow /27 luglio 2021// / When the Pegasus Project dropped last week, it was both an ordinary and exceptional moment. The report – from Amnesty, Citizenlab, Forbidden Stories, and 80 journalists in 10 countries – documented 50,000 uses of the NSO Group's Pegasus malware. https://www.occrp.org/en/the-pegasus-project/ The 50,000 targets of NSO's cyberweapon include politicians, activists and journalists. The Israeli arms-dealer – controlled by Novalpina Capital and Francisco Partners – has gone in to full spin mode. NSO insists that the report is wrong, but also that it's fine to spy on people, and also that terrorists will murder us all if they aren't allowed to reap vast fortunes by helping the world's most brutal dictators figure out whom to kidnap, imprison and murder. As I say, all of this is rather ordinary. The NSO Group's bloody hands, immoral practices and vicious retaliation against critics are well established. [...] continua qui: https://pluralistic.net/2021/07/27/gas-on-the-fire/#a-safe-place-for-dangero...
"J.C. DE MARTIN" <juancarlos.demartin@polito.it> writes: ...e il bello è che - almeno stavolta - il titolo catastrofico non è un'esagerazione. [...]
continua qui: https://pluralistic.net/2021/07/27/gas-on-the-fire/#a-safe-place-for-dangero...
Credo che il nocciolo sia questo: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- But as Snowden points out, none of this would be possible were it not for the vast, looming, grotesque tech-security debt that the IT industry has created for us. Everything we use is insecure, and it's built atop more insecure foundations. We live in an information society with catastrophic information security. If our society was a house, the walls would all be made of flaking asbestos and the attic would be stuffed with oily rags. --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Saluti, 380° P.S.: Doctorow scrive, testuali parole: «But this fight will be a tough one. The huge sums that governments funnel to cyber arms-dealers allows them to silence their critics – I've been forced to remove some of my own coverage thanks to baseless threats I couldn't afford to fight. Writing in today's Guardian (who also removed unfavorable coverage of NSO Group following legal threats)» In bocca al lupo a tutti quanti. -- 380° (Giovanni Biscuolo public alter ego) «Noi, incompetenti come siamo, non abbiamo alcun titolo per suggerire alcunché» Disinformation flourishes because many people care deeply about injustice but very few check the facts. Ask me about <https://stallmansupport.org>.
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