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1. John Scott-Railton ☕ (jsrailton@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-May-2023 01:13:27 UTC John Scott-Railton ☕

   • Andreas Fink

   NEW: Assange ally who once processed payments for #WikiLeaks now masterminds a global phone #surveillance system.

   A new report says Andreas Fink (he's apparently on Mastodon: @afink ) helps shady actors & governments track phones, intercept texts & compromise accounts.

   From assassinated Mexican journalists to Fink personally helping African security services pinpoint a critic using #SS7 it gets much, much worse

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   Story:
   https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/security-aviation/2023-05-10/ty-article-magazine/.premium/global-surveillance-the-secretive-swiss-dealer-enabling-israeli-spy-firms/00000188-0005-dc7e-a3fe-22cdf2900000

   • soloojos (Mastodon Uruguay) repeated this.
   • John Scott-Railton ☕ (jsrailton@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-May-2023 01:14:06 UTC John Scott-Railton ☕

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     2/ This is Mexican Journalist & editor Fredid Román Román.

     He was assassinated last August.

     Hours before the murder, his phone was pinged & poinpointed using a loophole in the global #telecom system (commonly called #SS7).

     So, who was tracking him? And who was helping them?