Notices by Etienne / Tek (tek@todon.eu)

New report by @citizenlab : Sweet QuaDreams
A First Look at Spyware Vendor QuaDream’s Exploits, Victims, and Customers #Surveillance
https://citizenlab.ca/2023/04/spyware-vendor-quadream-exploits-victims-customers/

Continuing the Twitter event thread, here is the $8 subscription : https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/nov/05/twitter-launches-8-blue-tick-subscription-service

Lol, all this is so stupid : Twitter Now Asks Some Fired Workers to Please Come Back
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-06/twitter-now-asks-some-fired-workers-to-please-come-back

Totally missed that Chelsea Manning wrote a book about her life, can't wait to read it
README.txt: A Memoir
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374279271/readmetxt

Apparently people like memes here

More non sense : Twitter staff have been told to work 84-hour weeks and managers slept at the office over the weekend as they scramble to meet Elon Musk's tight deadlines, reports say
https://news.yahoo.com/twitter-staff-told-84-hour-111714755.html

An interesting article on the Twitter economic situation, key point is that Twitter has a lot of debts and owes $1 billion a year of interested while making $630 millions. So Musk has to cut costs.

Can Elon Musk Make the Math Work on Owning Twitter? It’s Dicey. https://nyti.ms/3gVYiB0

Some more stupidity : Twitter is planning to start charging $20 per month for verification / And if the employees building it don’t meet their deadline, they’ll be fired by Elon Musk.
https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/30/23431931/twitter-paid-verification-elon-musk-blue-monthly-subscription

Very surprising : Elon Musk dissolves Twitter’s board and makes himself ‘sole director’
https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/elon-musk-twitter-latest-board-director-b2214457.html

Ok, I need to be more active here now, time to follow how Musk is gonna f-up Twitter

Ok I am going to keep stupid Twitter stuff in this thread. So apparently Twitter devs received orders to print 50 pages of code they did recently and wait for Musk to come with Tesla engineer and review the code with them. Then they were told to wait, and then to shred it all.
https://www.platformer.news/p/elon-takes-over-twitter

Some people mentioned having to do that on Twitter, like https://twitter.com/leahculver/status/1586145696163373056

Use of N-word on Twitter jumped by almost 500% after Elon Musk's takeover as trolls test limits on free speech, report says https://news.yahoo.com/n-word-twitter-jumped-almost-122043804.html

A late Follow Friday #FF for new people on Mastodon :

Some nice and interesting people on infosec / privacy and politics : @matthew_d_green @rysiek @DrWhax @leotanczt @U039b

Some nice organisations : @ooni @torproject @AssoEchap @exodus

Major Thunderbird security issue, make sure to upgrade to 102.2.1 as soon as you can https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/102.2.1/releasenotes/