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   Andy Greenberg (agreenberg@infosec.exchange)'s status on Friday, 02-Feb-2024 02:44:45 JST Andy Greenberg

   A collection of people with direct and indirect links to the Indian firm Appin Technology have used legal threats to erase reporting on its alleged hacker-for-hire past. Now, a group of anti-censorship voices is working to make that strategy backfire.

   https://www.wired.com/story/appin-training-centers-lawsuits-censorship

   • Mike Masnick ✅ repeated this.
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     Andy Greenberg (agreenberg@infosec.exchange)'s status on Friday, 02-Feb-2024 03:07:18 JST Andy Greenberg

     in reply to

     • Mike Masnick ✅
     • Electronic Frontier Foundation
     • Distributed Denial of Secrets
     • MuckRock

     That group fighting back includes the @eff, @muckrock and @ddosecrets. Fittingly it also includes @Techdirt, whose founder @mmasnick coined the term "Streisand Effect": when someone's attempt to censor information only brings more attention to it.