Notices by Andy Greenberg (agreenberg@infosec.exchange)

For anyone feeling nostalgic on the occasion of Ross Ulbricht's pardon, here's my interview with him (as the Dread Pirate Roberts) from 2013, just a few months before his arrest:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/08/14/an-interview-with-a-digital-drug-lord-the-silk-roads-dread-pirate-roberts-qa/

For two years, the serial swatter "Torswats" called in fake school shootings across the US, scrambling police, locking down schools, terrorizing hundreds of communities.

This is the untold story of his swatting rampage and the private eye who tracked him down. https://www.wired.com/school-swatting-torswats-brad-dennis/

Two years ago, @micahflee got banned from Twitter (and later X) for posting a link to a Mastodon account that tracked Elon Musk's private jet.

Now, in the midst of an exodus from X, he's launched a tool to archive and delete your X account so you can escape, too. https://www.wired.com/story/x-delete-posts-cyd-micah-lee/

Trump has vowed to deport millions of immigrants and jail his political enemies. Conservative groups who helped elect him want more restrictions on abortion and a crackdown on protest.

All of that requires surveillance. We put together a guide to protect yourself. https://www.wired.com/story/the-wired-guide-to-protecting-yourself-from-government-surveillance/

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/