SpyVeillance: SpyGigging, Followrs, Premise, Telegram, OSINT, OSWarfare, Tor, AP [re: Ukraine War]

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grarpamp <grarpamp at gmail.com> 27 Şubat 2022 Pazar saat 02:28 tarihinde yazdı:

> > Opensource recon hubs popping up...
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> The Premise type apps have been known for quite some time,
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> same for decades worth of opensource spying, oppos, and ops.
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> Plainly obvious that if someone's paying to take pictures,
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> recon, social engineer info of you... they don't have your
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> best interests in mind. Nor are such things not also tools that
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> won't come back to bite or be used against you. In history,
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> spy on humanity lead to authoritarian mass abuse of human
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> freedom by first mover power. Armsrace disaster. Topdown sideup,
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> global scams all spies agents trolls power seeking political agendas
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> imposing ideology force against will, notably none advocating voluntaryism
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> to live let live and associate freely under nonagression. AP News...
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> https://twitter.com/spyblog
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> https://twitter.com/wsj
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> https://twitter.com/byrontau
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> https://twitter.com/dnvolz
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> https://twitter.com/hiddenmarkov
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> https://twitter.com/covert_intel
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> https://aboutintel.eu/privacy-and-automated-osint/
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> Followrs - Uber style gig economy street surveillance operatives for hire
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> https://www.wsj.com/articles/app-taps-unwitting-users-abroad-to-gather-open-source-intelligence-11624544026
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> https://twitter.com/premisedata
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> Gigwork app Premise suspends Ukraine operations after being accused of
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> working with Russia in invasion. It says it was actually working for
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> clients in western democracies — which matches @WSJ reporting that it
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> has ties to US military intelligence.
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> Premise Mobile-Phone App Suspends Ukraine Activities After Accusations Fly
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> WASHINGTON—A mobile-phone app that pays users to perform basic
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> observational tasks such as photography and has U.S. defense and
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> intelligence clients suspended its activities in Ukraine on Friday...
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> WSJ wrote about Premise in July. It asks people all over the world to
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> do sentiment surveys, photography, etc. But it also turns user phones
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> into sensors to gather signal data on cell towers and wifi networks,
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> which can be valuable tactical intelligence.
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> https://www.wsj.com/articles/defense-intelligence-agency-expected-to-lead-militarys-use-of-open-source-data-11639142686
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> It's part of a broader trend of embracing 'open source' intelligence
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> that is going on in militaries and intelligence agencies around the
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> world, including the United States. One official estimated 80% of
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> intelligence is now sourced to unclassified sources
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> wsj.com/articles/defense-int…
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> Defense Intelligence Agency Expected to Lead Military’s Use of ‘Open
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> Source’ Data
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> The move would place the agency in charge of setting policy for
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> intelligence gleaned from social-media and commercial-data troves.
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> https://twitter.com/moxie/status/1497001286444617746
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> https://twitter.com/moxie/status/1474067549574688768
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> Telegram is the most popular messenger in urban Ukraine. After a
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> decade of misleading marketing and press, most ppl there believe it’s
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> an “encrypted app” The reality is the opposite-TG is by default a
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> cloud database w/ a plaintext copy of every msg everyone has ever
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> sent/recvd.
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> It's amazing to me that after all this time, almost all media coverage
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> of Telegram still refers to it as an "encrypted messenger." Telegram
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> has a lot of compelling features, but in terms of privacy and data
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> collection, there is no worse choice. Here's how it actually works: 1/
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> @0xggus
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> URGENT!🟡 If you want to help the antiwar activists in Russia and
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> human rights defenders around the world, you can run a snowflake
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> proxy❄️ and/or a Tor bridge. Help us circumvent the Tor block in
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> Russia! #Ukraine #RussiaUkraineWar Read more here 👇
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> blog.torproject.org/tor-cens…
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> Responding to Tor censorship in Russia | Tor Project
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> Since December 1st, some Internet providers in Russia have started to
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> block access to Tor. We need your help NOW to keep Russians connected
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> to Tor!
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> blog.torproject.org
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> Tracking the NASA FIRMS map, which is usually used to trace wildfires,
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> gives us a broad view of significant fighting since the invasion. The
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> coordinates are not precise, but in the right area.
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> @jeffhorwitz
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> Successful FB efforts to combat this kind of stuff have long been
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> routinely dependent on warnings from outside the company, whether from
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> partners or advocacy groups or reporters. Whether in Myanmar or the
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> US, the company’s needed the help.
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> @JaneLytv
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> Facebook cutting off data access, disbanding the CrowdTangle team, and
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> standing in the way of research now has a direct effect on the ability
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> to uncover Russian information operating during this offensive.
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> Researchers don’t give up but we need to acknowledge this consequence.