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Phishing campaigns are targeting different groups of journalists and dissidents or activists with this. Signal will never ask for your backup recovery key.

TechCrunch

Hackers are trying to steal Signal users' backups in new wave of widespread attacks | TechCrunch

A new hacking campaign is trying to trick Signal users to give up their secret recovery key, which can be used to access online backups containing ...

yourstruly 2 days ago

"Israel acts like any other apartheid ethno-dictatorship, but receives a level of deference from the American government and press and public quite unlike any other."

Liberal Currents

Israel Is a State Like Any Other, and Commits Atrocities Like Any Other Would

Israel acts like any other apartheid state, but receives a level of deference from the American government and press and public quite unlike any ot...

yourstruly 5 days ago

Leaked docs and chats on Russian “cognitive strikes” across Europe showed a strategy to “abandon overtly pro-Russian messaging” and focus on destabilization, including 'stunts' aimed at fueling anti-Muslim and anti-Jewish extremism. They realize it doesn't take much. https://www.occrp.org/en/investigation/leaked-documents-reveal-russian-cognitive-strikes-against-the-west-including-islamophobic-pig-head-attacks-in-paris

yourstruly 2 weeks ago

Amazing story of Unrwa's clandestine, 10-month operation to smuggle its own archives of the documented history of Palestinian suffering under occupation out of East Jerusalem and Gaza before Israel could destroy them.

the Guardian

The secret mission to rescue the UN’s vital Palestinian refugee archive

Millions of documents chronicling generations of trauma saved from Gaza and East Jerusalem in 10-month Unrwa operation

yourstruly 2 weeks ago

Radio Zamaneh resumed radio broadcasts after the January uprising and the internet shutdown in Iran. Every night from 11 PM (Iran time), RZ's news & analysis has been available via shortwave on 49 metre band at 6010 kHz. This site gives a taste of what people in country can hear.

Zamaneh On Air

ارسال موج کوتاه به ایران در زمان خاموشی اینترنت

«رادیو زمانه» پس از خیزش دی ۱۴۰۴ و خاموشی اینترنت و قطع ارتباطات بار دیگر پخش راد�...

yourstruly 2 weeks ago

"The world’s bullies can still break cities. What they can no longer assume is that broken cities mean obedient people. — John Sipher, The age of asymmetry – the weak have learned how to make the strong bleed"

Tomorrow

The age of asymmetry – the weak have learned how to make the strong bleed

Why is the world not bowing to American power? Why do adversaries not surrender when confronted with superior force?

yourstruly 2 weeks ago

"Internationalism Is Not a Luxury, but a Survival Mechanism" Superb interview with Syrian author Leila al-Shami and Ukrainian activist Oleksandr Kyselov on the vestigial Eurocentrism and American exceptionalism of the Western “anti-imperialist” Left in an increasingly multipolar world.

Radio Free Syria

Internationalism Is Not a Luxury, but a Survival Mechanism - Radio Free Syria

A must-read interview with prominent Syrian writer Leila al-Shami and Ukrainian activist Oleksandr Kyselov In Leila al-Shami's words: "We are...

yourstruly 2 weeks ago

Greater Israel: How a fringe settler fantasy went mainstream Israel’s settler movement has moved from the fringes to having influence over key Israeli institutions, including the media, where a constellation of voices is pushing for Israel to conquer new territory. — Al Jazeera’s The Listening Post

yourstruly 2 weeks ago

Went to the city to see the Banksy statue on Pall Mall. With Reform sweeping so many council elections this week its arrival is well timed.

yourstruly 3 weeks ago

I have the #KeepItOn 2025 report on internet shutdowns in a tab on my browser. "Not a single day of 2025 passed without at least one internet shutdown." https://www.accessnow.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/KeepItOn-Internet-Shutdowns-2025-Annual-Report.pdf

yourstruly 3 weeks ago

RightsCon would have started today but China used its authority in Zambia to block it. Currently in an event that switched to online, but the reality that the world is shrinking for pro-democracy and rights-based civil society collaboration is just fact.

Something broke in Lusaka

Zambia’s last-minute cancellation of RightsCon was more than bureaucratic theatre. It was a signal of a harder, more adversarial world in which r...

yourstruly 3 weeks ago

I think about this scene from Deep Space 9 a lot.

yourstruly 0 months ago

Something broke in Lusaka

Zambia’s last-minute cancellation of RightsCon was more than bureaucratic theatre. It was a signal of a harder, more adversarial world in which r...

yourstruly 0 months ago

The revolution will not be podcasted

Forces of nature are ripping through the world now, from energy crises to assassination attempts. The podcast world is finally getting riled up ove...

yourstruly 1 month ago

The White House is engaging in market manipulation and insider trading but since it de facto runs Congress and the SEC what would be the levers to do anything about that?

The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency

The BBC has found a pattern of spikes in trades ahead of public announcements by the US president.

yourstruly 1 month ago

The truth favored the Iranian regime. Rather than pivot from its playbook of fog and disinformation, it chose AI slop instead."

The Verge

How Iran out-shitposted the White House

Tehran’s meme warfare became an uncanny mirror of American governance

yourstruly 1 month ago

Iran's nationwide internet shutdown set a new record of 1,000 hours yesterday (over 41 days). Connectivity's at 1%. There's a lot of Iran related discourse happening online and it's good to remember a great many of the most relevant voices remain silenced.

War on the Rocks

Iran’s Other Front: The War Over the Internet

For a long time, the Iranian government has treated free internet access as a privilege that is extended by the state to those willing to carry its

yourstruly 1 month ago

"For two and a half years, western politicians and media outlets normalised Israel’s wholesale shredding of international law. Opponents of the genocide in Gaza warned this would unleash a boundless violence. They were right."

the Guardian

Why is anyone surprised by the US and Israel’s latest war? It’s only what the world allowed them to do in Gaza | Owen Jones

The price of silence from western politicians and media outlets over Israel’s actions in Palestine is now being paid by Iranian and Lebanese civi...

yourstruly 1 month ago

No, the chatbot didn't cure that dog's cancer

It’s Easter Sunday. To celebrate, I took the Windrush line up to Hoxton, had festive Swedish meatballs at the Curious Yellow Kafe, then wandered ...

yourstruly 1 month ago

"“So much of our past has been shaped by this petty proceduralism. You could draw a straight line between an amendment in Brussels and a mass grave in Kazakhstan.” — Molly Crabapple, ‘Here Where We Live is Our Country’" A lot of banging great lines in this book!