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reporter covering cyber (both crime and state-sponsored) for Der Spiegel and ZDF, short overview at Signal: hakan.25

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hakan@hatr· Jun 20

just incredible quote

He used an old Israeli trope about the Army to describe the power imbalance between Netanyahu and Trump and the unlikelihood that Netanyahu will publicly defy him. “When you piss on him, he gets wet,” Citrinowicz said. “But when he pisses on you, you drown.”

hakan@hatr· Apr 5

Absolutely crazy story that ties together many aspects related to cybersecurity, specifically about Iran‘s nuclear ambitions and how defectors have helped the U.S. keeping Iran away from the bomb, including through Stuxnet www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Chalker’s defectors contributed to what several former senior officials told me had been a dramatic leap forward in the U.S. government’s understanding of Iran’s nuclear ambitions in those years.

hakan@hatr· Mar 30

Years ago, we've published an investigation into one core member of REvil, together with @maxzierer.bsky.social and @kaibiermann.bsky.social Now, german authorities put out a Wanted poster for Mr. Shchukin www.bka.de/DE/IhreSiche... Here's our reporting from back then www.zeit.de/digital/inte...

hakan@hatr· Mar 27

"Notably, from April 24 onward we will begin using interaction data—specifically inputs, outputs, code snippets, and associated context—from Copilot Free, Pro, and Pro+ users to train and improve our AI models unless you opt out. Copilot" github.com/settings/cop...

How to opt out from Github using repositories to train AI models.

hakan@hatr· Mar 10

Shoutout to the reader/researcher who reached out to say that all of the four su-domains showing up are registered with the same mail address

lexomnium registered with roygeneral@proton.me

lebelligerant registered with roygeneral@proton.me

brennendefrage registered with roygeneral@proton.me

deintelligenz registered with roygeneral@proton.me

hakan@hatr· Jan 26

"Device in restricted region: Locale == 'US' || 'IL'" Real ransomware operators inadvertently telling you where they're from, only for Predator spyware www.jamf.com/blog/predato...

Screenshot from JAMF threat blog about Predator spyware with one-line reading "Device in restricted region: Locale == 'US' || 'IL'"

hakan@hatr· Jan 3

German chancellor on the situation in Venezuela: the "legal assessment of the US operation is complex" www.bundesregierung.de/breg-de/aktu...

statement from BKAmt, german chancellor, relevant portion in the skeet

hakan@hatr· Jan 3

WaPo editorial outright celebrating Trump all the way, only in the second-to-last paragraph „and it’s good for democratic hygiene to scrutinize the decision.“ www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

From the editorial

Millions of people around the world, most of all in Venezuela, are celebrating the downfall of the dictator Nicolás Maduro. President Donald Trump’s decision to capture him on Saturday is one of the boldest moves a president has made in years, and the operation was an unquestionable tactical success. The next step is ensuring that this triumph sets Venezuela up for stability rather than chaos. Details are still emerging, but what happened in Caracas was a clear reminder that America’s military and intelligence capabilities are second to none. Airstrikes on several locations in Venezuela preceded the capture of Maduro and his wife by members of the U.S. Army’s elite Delta Force. The couple has been extradited to the U.S., where they will face narcoterrorism, weapons and drug charges in Manhattan. Miraculously, there were no American deaths, although some U.S. service members were injured and one helicopter was damaged.

hakan@hatr· Dec 12

This week's newsletter is about analyzing ChatGPT-share conversations with pandas and what kinds of things ChatGPT is or was looking for once you open(ed) up that conversation in your browser. That screenshot is ChatGPT telling me that they're basically oversharing buttondown.com/readwrite/ar...

chatgpt telling me that what chatgpt is storing in the html shouldn't be there

hakan@hatr· Nov 23

Privately, however, staff assured Nick Clegg, Meta's then-head of global public policy, that the conclusions of the research were valid.

hakan@hatr· Jul 28

What a weird way to frame the discussion around the Online Safety Act by the FT, not the headline, the teaser. (the article itself is more nuanced) on.ft.com/3IOsPyz

hakan@hatr· Jun 7

ProPublica obtained the code underlying DOGE’s AI-tool used to „munch“ government contracts and published the actual prompts www.propublica.org/article/insi...

the initial prompt to set up the AI tool

hakan@hatr· May 31

Per WaPo: the MAHA report included this type of citation smh www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

The MAHA report uses OAICite in the reference section which stands for OPEN AI cite

hakan@hatr· Mar 26

Spiegel did an OSINT-based search and was able to find numbers apparently in use by Hegseth (tied to his WhatsApp), Waltz and Tulsi Gabbard www.spiegel.de/internationa...

Most of these numbers and email addresses are apparently still in use, with some of them linked to profiles on social media platforms like Instagram and LinkedIn. They were used to create Dropbox accounts and profiles in apps that track running data.

hakan@hatr· Mar 20

Soldatov and Borogan citing German intel official saying Russian spy services in the runup to 🇩🇪 election **may** have iinstigated attacks „in order to inflate support for the far right, which opposes German support for Ukraine.“ Which is quite the claim and, afaik, hadn’t been reported before

In the run-up to Germany’s federal election in February, for example, there was a series of attacks against civilians in Germany by Afghans and other immigrants. According to a senior German intelligence official we spoke to shortly before the election, the German agencies believed that Russian security agents may have instigated these attacks i

hakan@hatr· Mar 16

hakan@hatr· Jan 28

www.npr.org/2024/02/27/1...

Screenshot from NPR interview

They are omniscient. And because he figured that they already knew this, he interpreted the accusations that he was harboring WMD as just a game, a plot, an excuse to overthrow him. And he thought, you know, why should I play their game?

hakan@hatr· Jan 26

Really enjoyed reading this book. While it doesn’t answer that one question – are they being used for spying or not – it does an excellent job in explaining the company, where it came from, how they are operation and how it is „made in the image of its nation“.

hakan@hatr· Dec 26

Astounding that Israel at one point basically just took a guess how much civilians might be killed during an airstrike – and, on top, relying on faulty assumptions www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/w...

„It relied, for example, on people having enough electricity to power their phones — and a working phone network. But power and network outages in Gaza often made that impossible.“

hakan@hatr· Dec 22

Can recommend, so insanely detailed.

Book titles Everyone who is gone is here about the refugee situation in the U.S.

hakan@hatr· Dec 18

Great article in the Washington Post breaking down what exactly happened around that Ajax-Maccabi soccer match www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Screenshot from the article, the highlighted bit reads: The Post found that the violence that unfolded was not one-sided. Israeli fans were harassed, chased and in some cases beaten. But video of one of the earliest post-match altercations, shared by multiple news organizations as an example of attacks on Israelis, in fact shows Maccabi supporters as the aggressors.

hakan@hatr· Nov 24

„Andi loves when the referees reach into her gloves. She likes watching their hands go into a hole where her hands are about to go. The fact that they check every time makes Andi feel like she is capable of murder. She loves having an adult confirm that her fist could be a weapon.“

hakan@hatr· Nov 14

One of the most well-known journalists covering Russia ,a biographer of Putin, a go-to expert throughout Germany, was secretly paid by Russia He received hundreds of thousands of euros. www.derstandard.at/story/300000...