Notices by Andy Greenberg (agreenberg@infosec.exchange)

We fully expect to receive a takedown demand for this story. We also think the stakes of this anti-censorship battle are too high not to publish it anyway.

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

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.

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

Chinese law demands tech firms operating there report hackable (unpatched) bugs in their products to the government within 2 days. An Atlantic Council report shows how firms seem to be complying—and how that helps China's hackers target their customers. https://www.wired.com/story/china-vulnerability-disclosure-law/