Americans rallied for Kimmel. It’s time to do the same for Mario Guevara
When ABC suspended “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” last week following a shakedown from the Trump administration, celebrities, free speech advocates, and ordinary Americans voiced their outrage. They were right to sound the alarm — and it (mostly) worked. Kimmel’s back on the air.
But where is that same outrage against the government’s effort to deport Mario Guevara, an Atlanta-area journalist with a work visa who has lawfully resided in the U.S. for 20-plus years? His only “offense” is informing the public of protests against the government.
This week, a final removal order was issued against Guevara, who was arrested (with the baseless criminal charges since dropped) while livestreaming a July “No Kings” protest in Georgia. He might not have a late-night comedy show, but his right to report news is every bit as important as Kimmel’s right to tell jokes.
The stakes in Guevara’s case — both for him and for the country — are even higher than in the Kimmel fiasco that has dominated headlines. Guevara could be deported at any moment, likely to his birthplace, El Salvador, which he fled decades ago to escape political persecution.
Despite the extremely serious constitutional implications of Kimmel’s case, his worst-case scenario was moving from prime time to a podcast. There is no telling what fate might await Guevara if he’s thrown out of the country.
And if that happens, the chilling effect on journalists — particularly noncitizen ones, even those like Guevara with legal status — will be impossible to measure. After all, we only know what news we hear. We don’t know what news we don’t hear because journalists didn’t report it out of fear for their safety or freedom.
Kimmel‘s worst-case scenario was moving from prime time to a podcast. There is no telling what fate might await Guevara.
Kimmel’s professional peers — famous comedians and other celebrities — might feel relieved that Kimmel ultimately got his show back. But most journalists (or comedians, for that matter) aren’t famous and don’t have a Rolodex of Hollywood A-listers ready to come to their defense. Kimmel’s win offers them little comfort.
Independent journalists like Guevara also don’t have money for lawyers, lobbyists, or PR firms to make their case to judges, politicians, or the public (although fortunately, organizations like the ACLU, Free Press, the Committee to Protect Journalists, and others have stepped up).
Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr tried to manufacture plausible deniability in Kimmel’s case, arguing that it wasn’t his public ultimatum but pressure from local audiences that led ABC and its affiliates to pull Kimmel. That’s nonsense, but in Guevara’s case — much like the case against Rümeysa Öztürk, the Tufts University student facing removal for co-writing an op-ed critical of Israel — the government is hardly attempting to hide its agenda.
The federal government seeks to deport Guevara — despite his work visa and despite local prosecutors dropping their case against him for livestreaming in public — because, to them, his reporting makes him an “undesirable.” How did journalism, the only career protected by the Constitution, become a disfavored profession in America?
Guevara’s reporting often focused on immigration enforcement abuses. That earns him no friends in a government that considers U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to be secret police. From seeking to punish social media users who identify ICE agents to investigating radio stations that report on ICE raids to threatening whistleblowers who undermine the official narrative, the administration has made every effort to intimidate those who speak the truth about its immigration policy.
The secrecy is by no means limited to ICE — while Kimmel’s show was in limbo and Guevara wrote letters from his cramped jail cell, the Pentagon announced it would force reporters to pledge to only report authorized information.
What this administration cannot seem to comprehend is that the First Amendment exists for the sole purpose of protecting the right to publish information the government does not want published. There would be no need for a constitutional right to publish what the government wants. Everyone loves free speech when the speaker is on their side.
Guevara is exactly who the constitution was intended to protect — and his retaliatory deportation is exactly the kind of authoritarian censorship it was intended to prevent.
Kimmel will be all right with or without ABC, and with or without you. That doesn’t mean not to protest efforts to censor him — the FCC’s antics are unconstitutional, un-American, and fully deserving of contempt. Carr should be fired and disbarred, and the corporations that caved to him should be ashamed.
But free speech is not only for celebrities. The real battles for our rights are not fought in television studios and theme parks but at protests and in citizen journalists’ home newsrooms. And these days, in detention centers and immigration courts.
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Mobilize for Mario Guevara like you did for Jimmy Kimmel
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It’s now been over 100 days since journalist Mario Guevara has been imprisoned for covering a protest, and Rümeysa Öztürk has faced deportation for nearly 200 days over an op-ed the government didn’t like. Read on for why cases like these deserve as much outrage as the Federal Communications Commission’s latest attempt at silencing free speech.
Journalist facing deportation deserves same energy as Kimmel
When ABC suspended Jimmy Kimmel Live! last week following a shakedown from the Trump administration, celebrities, free speech advocates, and ordinary Americans voiced their outrage. They were right to sound the alarm — and it (mostly) worked. Kimmel’s back on the air.
But where is that same outrage against the government’s effort to deport Mario Guevara, an Atlanta-area journalist who has lawfully resided in the U.S. for 20-plus years? His only “offense” is informing the public of protests against the government, but he faces imminent deportation.
Speaking of Kimmel, our advocacy director, Seth Stern, went on the “Legal AF” podcast on the MeidasTouch network to talk about our supplement to our July attorney disciplinary complaint against FCC Chair Brendan Carr. Read more about Guevera’s case here.
How noncitizen journalists can prepare for ICE
The immediate priority is getting Guevara’s case dropped, but we also don’t want there to be any more baseless deportation cases against journalists. Many newsrooms — not to mention freelancers — have little experience dealing with immigration authorities, though. Luckily, we know people who do.
We hosted a panel discussion featuring immigration lawyers, civil rights advocates, and journalists to talk about what to do when a journalist is detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement — and what must happen before that day ever comes. Read about it and watch it here.
Pentagon seeks to control the press
The Pentagon faced bipartisan backlash for its ridiculous policy requiring journalists to agree not to obtain or report “unauthorized” information. We called them out in The New York Times, CNN, The Intercept, and elsewhere. Stern also discussed the disturbing move on NPR’s Los Angeles affiliate, KCRW, and FPF’s Lauren Harper discussed this and other threats to press freedom on NPR’s 1A.
First, President Donald Trump tried to downplay the policy. Now, in a letter responding to an inquiry from the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, officials are trying to walk it back. Unfortunately, the response offers little reassurance that the Pentagon’s intentions are anything but censorial, and doubles down on restricting routine constitutionally protected newsgathering. Read more here.
Drop charges against Cincinnati journalists
Jury trials of journalists arrested while reporting news are exceedingly rare in the United States, but the next two are coming next week unless prosecutors come to their senses.
Journalists Madeline Fening and Lucas Griffith, both of whom were arrested while covering a protest on July 17 for Cincinnati-based CityBeat, are set to be tried Sept. 30 and Oct. 2, respectively. In an unfortunate irony, the protest was in opposition to the recently dropped immigration case against Ayman Soliman, who himself fled Egypt to escape persecution for his journalism. We led a letter to prosecutors from rights organizations and local journalism professors urging them to drop the baseless charges. Read more here.
Proposed ‘safety’ bill would undermine accountability for lawmakers
FPF’s Caitlin Vogus writes for The Minnesota Star Tribune that a bill sponsored by Sens. Amy Klobuchar and Ted Cruz to protect lawmakers won’t fully stop data brokers from trafficking their personal information but will stop journalists and watchdogs from holding them accountable.
Use our action center tool to tell Congress to reject this bill.
Police records must stay public in California
A searchable public database known as the Police Records Access Project has made public for the first time more than 1.5 million pages of previously secret records about the use of force and misconduct by California police officers.
The California legislature, however, is trying to put police misconduct back under wraps. This month, it passed AB 1178, a new bill that would make it harder for the public to access these records. The bill is awaiting Gov. Gavin Newsom’s signature or veto. Read more here.
What we’re reading
Urgent ideas for defending press freedom in Gaza (Columbia Journalism School). Columbia followed up on last month’s important article in Columbia Journalism Review with a discussion about finding creative ways to help journalists in Gaza despite anti-press regimes both here and in Israel. FPF Executive Director Trevor Timm and board member and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Azmat Khan were both on the panel.
Israel killed 31 journalists in Yemen strike, press freedom group says (The Washington Post). It’s not just Gaza. The Committee to Protect Journalists says the strike in Yemen was “the deadliest strike on journalists in the Middle East” it has documented to date.
Letter from ICE detention facility (The Bitter Southerner). Guevara recounts the harrowing details of his detention in an Atlanta federal prison. You can also read his son’s plea for his release.
Investors rejoice over looming TikTok deal despite political concerns (Al Jazeera). Days after Trump said frequent criticism of his administration should be illegal, he is finalizing plans to steer control of TikTok to his billionaire friends. “It would be naive to think they won’t censor Trump’s critics while boosting content that pleases him,” Stern said.
It’s 2025. Do you know how secure your newsroom is? (Neiman Lab). “What’s really important is that sources know where to reach you in a way that helps them stay secure,” FPF’s Davis Erin Anderson said.
Trump signs order labeling antifa ‘domestic terrorist organization’ (The Hill). Trump’s executive orders on domestic terrorism and threats to use racketeering laws against protest movements can and will be used to threaten journalists and sources. Journalists who cover “antifa” or report on ICE must now risk being accused of terrorism.
Judge strikes down Trump’s $15 billion suit against The New York Times (The Washington Post). We’re glad a judge tossed this ridiculous lawsuit, but the attorneys behind it should have been sanctioned.
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Alla Casa Bianca Trump ha sostituito il ritratto di Biden con la foto di un braccio meccanico che riproduce la sua firma
Si tratta dell'autopen, uno strumento utilizzato spesso dai presidenti Usa e perfettamente legale. Anche se il tycoon spesso ha puntato il dito contro il suo predecessore per l'averlo utilizzatoValentina Romagnoli (Open)
Leggete che condizioni impone Israele per i pacchi che "dovrebbero" entrare a Gaza.
Sono veramente dei demoni.
Le 300 tonnellate di cibo raccolto per Gaza sono bloccate al porto di Genova - Il Post
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Le 300 tonnellate di cibo raccolto per Gaza sono bloccate al porto di Genova
La ong che voleva portarle via terra ha rifiutato le imposizioni di Israele, che vieta l'ingresso di prodotti con amidi e zuccheriIl Post
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Un’Europa senza pilota. Il nuovo drone presentato da Helsing
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Il percorso unmanned dell’Europa passa da “Europa”. Così si chiama infatti il nuovo drone Ca-1che l’azienda tedesca Helsing ha presentato a Tussenhausen, in Baviera, segnando il suo ingresso nel settore degli Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle. L’obiettivo dichiarato è coniugare autonomia strategica, intelligenza artificiale e produzione di
Hackaday Podcast Episode 339: The Vape Episode, a Flying DeLorean, and DIY Science
Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Tom Nardi start this week’s episode off with an update on the rapidly approaching 2025 Supercon in Pasadena, California. From there they’ll talk about the surprisingly high-tech world of vapes, a flying DeLorean several years in the making, non-contact pulse monitoring, and the potential of backyard radio telescopes to do real astronomy. You’ll hear about a dodecahedron speaker, a page turning peripheral, and 3D printed tools for unfolding boxes. They’ll wrap things up by taking a look at the latest generation of wearable smart glasses, and wonder if putting a bank of batteries in your home is really with the hassle.
Check out the links below if you want to follow along, and as always, tell us what you think about this episode in the comments!
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- When Low SRAM Keeps The DOOM Off Your Vape
- Full Scale Styrofoam DeLorean Finally Takes Flight
- Full-Scale Flying DeLorean Gets Closer To Liftoff
- Mega-CNC Router Carves Styrofoam Into A Full-Size Flying Delorean
- Heart Rate Measurement Via WiFi, The DIY Way
- Low-Cost, High-Gain: A Smart Electronic Eyepiece For Capturing The Cosmos
- How A Failed Video Format Spawned A New Kind Of Microscope
- Listening For The Next Wow! Signal With Low-Cost SDR
- The Wow! Signal And The Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence
- Damage To Arecibo Leaves Gaping Hole In Astronomy
- Roofing Radio Telescope Sees The Galaxy
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This week, we discuss being journalism dorks, our new lawsuit against ICE, and working on bullshit.#BehindTheBlog
Behind the Blog: Behind 404 Media's ICE Lawsuit
This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss being journalism dorks, our new lawsuit against ICE, and working on bullshit.JASON: I’m writing this from sunny Athens, Greece, where I’ve been invited to talk about 404 Media at the IMEDD International Journalism Forum, an annual conference. Over the years, I haven’t been to too many conferences, because honestly it was always too disruptive to the day-to-day journalism and work of managing a team to be able to get away. We’re more than two years into this, but one of the nice things about having this company is that I can mostly get my work done whenever makes sense for me, whether that’s late at night in Los Angeles or early in the morning in Greece.
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Rhadamanthys Stealer: introduce una funzione AI per estrarre seed phrase dalle immagini
Rhadamanthys è uno stealer di informazioni avanzato comparso per la prima volta nel 2022. Caratterizzato da un ciclo di sviluppo rapido — con almeno dieci rilascio diversi dall’esordio — il malware viene promosso e commercializzato nei forum sotterranei.
Nonostante il divieto imposto per il suo uso contro soggetti russi e/o di ex repubbliche sovietiche, il prodotto è ancora disponibile sul mercato clandestino; il prezzo parte da 250 dollari per 30 giorni di accesso, cifra che ne favorisce la diffusione tra i criminali informatici.
Funzionalità e tecniche di evasione
Rhadamanthys è progettato per raccogliere una vasta gamma di dati: informazioni di sistema, credenziali, wallet di criptovalute, password memorizzate nei browser, cookie e dati provenienti da numerose applicazioni. Integra numerose contromisure anti-analisi che complicano l’osservazione del codice e ne ostacolano l’esecuzione in ambienti sandbox.
Insikt Group di Recorded Future, ha acquisito e analizzato l’ultima release, la 0.7.0, evidenziando diverse novità. L’innovazione più significativa riguarda l’uso dell’intelligenza artificiale: tramite riconoscimento ottico dei caratteri (OCR), Rhadamanthys è ora in grado di individuare e estrarre automaticamente le “seed phrase” dei portafogli di criptovalute presenti in immagini. La funzione è suddivisa in componenti client e server: il client individua potenziali immagini contenenti seed phrase e, una volta esfiltrate al server di comando e controllo, il back-end esegue l’estrazione completa.
Tra le altre aggiunte, la versione 0.7.0 consente agli attori di minaccia di eseguire e installare pacchetti Microsoft Installer (MSI), un vettore che può eludere i controlli di sicurezza tradizionali perché i file MSI sono spesso associati a installazioni legittime. Inoltre, lo sviluppatore ha reso più resistente e “tamper-proof” la funzione che impedisce la riesecuzione del malware entro un intervallo di tempo configurabile, aggiornandola con meccanismi di cifratura e hashing.
Diffusione, autore e canali di vendita
Il malware è popolare nella comunità criminale; la sua rapida evoluzione e le funzionalità emergenti ne fanno una minaccia concreta per le organizzazioni. Il principale sviluppatore, noto con lo pseudonimo “kingcrete2022”, è stato bannato sia su XSS sia su Exploit Forums a causa delle accuse relative all’indirizzare soggetti russi e/o di ex repubbliche dell’URSS. Nonostante i divieti, l’autore continua a pubblicizzare nuove versioni attraverso messaggistica privata su TOX, Telegram e Jabber.
Nel rapporto di Insikt Group sono indicate strategie di mitigazione che le organizzazioni dovrebbero adottare. Sono inoltre disponibili rilevazioni per individuare Rhadamanthys e, come misura preventiva, è stato descritto un “killswitch” basato sull’impostazione di mutex noti sui sistemi non infetti per bloccarne l’esecuzione e proteggere macchine a rischio.
Rischi operativi
Gli infostealer rappresentano un pericolo significativo per la sicurezza aziendale: la pratica diffusa del riutilizzo delle password facilita l’escalation dall’ambito personale a quello professionale. Credenziali sottratte da account privati — ad esempio da un social network — possono consentire l’accesso non autorizzato a account lavorativi, soprattutto quando indirizzi e-mail professionali sono facilmente reperibili su piattaforme di networking. Inoltre, l’uso promiscuo di dispositivi per attività personali e professionali aumenta il rischio di infezione: l’apertura di link malevoli o la navigazione su siti compromessi da parte di dipendenti o familiari può esporre credenziali aziendali.
Per questi motivi il rapporto sottolinea l’importanza di politiche di password robuste, formazione continua del personale su pratiche di navigazione sicura e controlli di accesso rigorosi per ridurre l’impatto degli infostealer.
Questo articolo si basa su informazioni, integralmente o parzialmente tratte dalla piattaforma di intelligence di Recorded Future, partner strategico di Red Hot Cyber e punto di riferimento globale nell’intelligence sulle minacce informatiche. La piattaforma fornisce analisi avanzate utili a individuare e contrastare attività malevole nel cyberspazio.
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Set Phone to… Hyperspectral
While our eyes are miraculous little devices, they aren’t very sensitive outside of the normal old red, green, and blue spectra. The camera in your phone is far more sensitive, and scientists want to use those sensors in place of expensive hyperspectral ones. Researchers at Purdue have a cunning plan: use a calibration card.
The idea is to take a snap of the special card and use it to understand the camera’s exact response to different colors in the current lighting conditions. Once calibrated to the card, they can detect differences as small as 1.6 nanometers in light wavelengths. That’s on par with commercial hyperspectral sensors, according to the post.
You may wonder why you would care. Sensors like this are useful for medical diagnostic equipment, analysis of artwork, monitoring air quality, and more. Apparently, high-end whisky has a distinctive color profile, so you can now use your phone to tell if you are getting the cheap stuff or not.
We also imagine you might find a use for this in phone-based spectrometers. There is plenty to see in the hyperspectral world.
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🎻 “Uto Ughi per i Giovani”, ieri presso il Duomo di Milano si è svolta la terza tappa del progetto!
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The sudden reduction in the Chandler wobble, a deviation between Earth’s axis and crust, may primarily originate in a powerful La Niña event, reports a new study.#TheAbstract
Earth Was Mysteriously Thrown Off-Kilter In 2015. Now, Scientists Think They Know Why.
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Subscribe to 404 Media to get The Abstract, our newsletter about the most exciting and mind-boggling science news and studies of the week.Have you noticed anything out of whack about Earth since 2015? I’m speaking, of course, about how our planet’s wobble started shrinking that year, a mysterious shift that scientists have been puzzling over ever since.
Now, researchers think they might have an explanation for the sudden decrease in the Chandler wobble (CW), a deviation in Earth's rotational axis relative to its crust that causes a drift of about 20 feet over a cycle of roughly 14 months. The recent off-kilter wobble, known as the CW reduction event, may have been largely sparked by “mass anomalies” after the La Niña of 2010–2011, according to a new study published in Geophysical Research Letters.
That particular La Niña event was one of the strongest on record and it was “followed by significant ocean mass loss due to changed precipitation and evaporation patterns, providing a possible cause of the CW reduction event,” reports the study.
“Polar motion, like the Chandler wobble, reflects changes in Earth’s overall angular momentum,” said study authors Taehwan Jeon and Ki-Weon Seo, a geophysicist and associate professor at Seoul National University, respectively, in a joint email to 404 Media. “Changes in regional mass, and velocity fields of ocean currents and winds can affect the wobble’s amplitude. Because the wobble sums up effects from all over the globe, it is usually hard to tell exactly which region contributed how much.”
“Still, given the scale of the phenomenon, it makes sense that global climate events such as ENSO (El Niño Southern Oscillation) have a stronger influence than small local changes,” the pair continued. “Not every El Niño or La Niña does this, but as our study shows, the 2010-2011 La Niña produced an unusually strong anomaly when viewed from the perspective of Earth’s polar motion.”
The Chandler wobble is one of many wandering deviations between the axis and crust; for instance, we recently covered the effect of impounded dam water on Earth’s rotation. The wobble has also increased and decreased many times in the past in response to shifting global mass distributions, so the latest anomaly isn’t unprecedented.
Still, scientists are curious what might be driving the recent CW reduction, which reached its peak intensity between 2015 and 2020. To approach this mystery, Jeon, Seo, and their colleagues broke the wobble up into two components: the forced wobble and the free wobble.
“The Chandler wobble is actually a two-dimensional pendulum-like motion, but for simplicity it can be compared to a one-dimensional swing,” explained Jeon and Seo. “If you let a swing move without pushing it, it will eventually slow down and stop. That ‘natural’ motion without any external force is what we call the ‘free wobble.’”
“Now imagine giving the swing a push at just the right timing,” they continued. “The swing will keep moving. Depending on how you push, its amplitude can increase or decrease. On Earth, all moving masses (such as air, oceans and water on land) act like those pushes. The part of the wobble driven by these pushes is called the ‘forced wobble.’”
Because the Chandler wobble is the sum of these two parts, the reduction is caused by the free and forced phases cancelling each other out, according to the team’s models. In other words, the study showed that the strong 2010-2011 La Niña event drove the forced wobble out of phase, allowing it to interfere with the free wobble and reduce the overall CW amplitude.
Jeon and Seo said their results “were partly expected and partly surprising.” On the one hand, they noted that oscillations naturally decay over time, so they were expecting to see only recent changes reflected in the Chandler wobble, with ENSO events of the past few decades playing an outsized role in those shifts.
“What surprised us was that not every ENSO event seems to matter, and in particular, the 2010-2011 La Niña turned out to be the strongest contributor,” the pair said. “That was not something we had fully predicted before doing the analysis.”
With that in mind, it’s possible that the Chandler wobble will continue to go haywire in the coming decades, as ENSO events are being amplified by human-driven climate change.
“Large-scale and systematic shifts in Earth’s mass and motion can strongly affect the Chandler wobble, especially when they show a cycle close to the Chandler period (about 433 days), which can resonate more strongly,” Jeon and Seo said.
In particular, the pair pointed to how much ENSO events can disrupt rainfall patterns, which ended up being a main factor in how the 2010–2011 La Niña anomalies impacted on the CW reduction. Changes in global ice mass, however, have more influence over the long-term drift of Earth’s rotation axis, and don’t influence the short-term Chandler wobble as much.
“Since 2010-2011, mass and velocity field changes have continued around the globe, and separating their individual effects remains very challenging,” Jeon and Seo said. “Still, because the Chandler wobble’s amplitude has been increasing again since late 2020, we expect that it may soon return to levels comparable to those observed before 2010.”
“Although the amplitude drop during 2015-2020 was unusual, there were also earlier periods when the Chandler wobble was decreased or increased in amplitude,” the pair concluded. “We suspect that major ENSO events may have played a similar role during those times as well. A next step would be to investigate the broader patterns—what kinds of ENSO events tend to leave a mark on Earth’s polar motion, and what features make them most influential.”
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The swings between El Niño and La Niña have been bigger in recent decades than earlier ones. Our guest blogger covers new research pointing the finger at human-caused climate change.NOAA Climate.gov
Cooperazione, Gcap, filiera produttiva. Quali prospettive per il futuro dell’Aereonautica
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I caccia di sesta generazione e l’evoluzione dei motori aeronautici rappresentano una sfida cruciale per difesa, industria e ricerca. In questo contesto si è tenuto all’Istituto affari internazionali un incontro in cui è stato presentato uno studio sulle nuove frontiere della propulsione
Active Directory nel mirino! Come i criminal hacker rubano NTDS.dit
Active Directory (AD) contiene le chiavi digitali dell’organizzazione: l’accesso non autorizzato a questo servizio espone informazioni sensibili e credenziali che possono condurre a una compromissione totale del dominio.
Tra gli asset più critici c’è il file NTDS.dit, che memorizza l’insieme dei dati di dominio e gli hash delle password. Questo articolo ricostruisce un caso reale in cui attori ostili hanno ottenuto privilegi elevati, hanno estratto NTDS.dit e hanno tentato la sua esfiltrazione eludendo controlli comuni.
Il valore strategico di NTDS.dit
In un ambiente Windows dominato da Active Directory, il file NTDS.dit (NT Directory Services Directory Information Tree) rappresenta il database centrale del dominio: contiene account utente, policy di gruppo, oggetti computer e — elemento cruciale — gli hash delle password di tutti gli account, compresi quelli con privilegi di Domain Administrator.
Il furto di questo file permette ad un attaccante, una volta in possesso dell’hive di sistema (SYSTEM) per decrittare il contenuto, di estrarre gli hash, attaccarli offline e impersonare qualunque identità all’interno del dominio. In pratica si ottiene la “mappa” dell’identità digitale dell’organizzazione.
Gli aggressori, riporta la ricerca di Trellix, dopo aver acquisito privilegi amministrativi su un host, sfruttano spesso strumenti nativi (ad esempio vssadmin) per creare Volume Shadow Copy e aggirare i lock sui file, copiando così NTDS.dit senza interrompere i processi AD. Successivamente riparano il file con esentutl e ricavano credenziali con utilità come SecretsDump, Mimikatz o anche con semplici comandi di copia. Queste operazioni possono risultare sorprendentemente silenziose per molte difese tradizionali, motivo per cui il rilevamento basato sul comportamento di rete è fondamentale.
Sequenza dell’attacco: estrazione e esfiltrazione di NTDS.dit
L’analisi del caso mostra una catena di azioni tipica: accesso iniziale, raccolta di hash, uso di hash per autenticarsi, movimento laterale e quindi estrazione di NTDS.dit insieme all’hive di registro SYSTEM, indispensabile per ottenere la Boot Key necessaria alla decrittazione.
Fasi principali illustrate:
- Raccolta degli hash — Gli avversari ottengono hash delle password tramite metodi come DCSync o estraendoli dalla memoria del processo
lsass.exe(ad esempio con Mimikatz), operazione che richiede privilegi elevati sull’host compromesso. - Autenticazione tramite hash rubati — Con la tecnica “Pass the Hash” (MITRE ID: T1550.002) è possibile autenticarsi come l’utente compromesso, sfruttando NTLM o algoritmi AES (es.
/ntlm,/aes128,/aes256) per connettersi a risorse di rete o avviare processi remoti. - Espansione della compromissione — Le credenziali ottenute vengono usate per eseguire strumenti come PSExec e raggiungere altri sistemi, ampliando la superficie d’attacco e ripetendo il ciclo di furto credenziali e movimento laterale.
- Dump ed esfiltrazione di NTDS.dit e SYSTEM — Per copiare NTDS.dit pur con AD attivo, gli aggressori possono:
- creare una snapshot del volume tramite Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) e prelevare il file dalla copia;
- utilizzare utility PowerShell (es. Invoke-NinjaCopy o simili) per copiare file in uso;
- sfruttare strumenti di sistema come
NTDSUtil.exeoDSDBUtil.exeper esportare dati.
Dalla snapshot gli attaccanti prelevano NTDS.dit e l’hive SYSTEM, li posizionano in una cartella di staging, li verificano con editor esadecimali o strumenti di parsing AD e quindi li archiviano per l’esfiltrazione verso server esterni.
Raccomandazioni operative
Dall’analisi emergono indicazioni concrete per la mitigazione: monitorare e bloccare movimenti SMB e trasferimenti di file inconsueti, controllare e limitare l’uso di strumenti di amministrazione remota come PsExec, rafforzare la protezione degli account con privilegi elevati e abilitare controlli per rilevare creazioni di Volume Shadow Copy e altre tecniche note per aggirare i lock sui file.
L'articolo Active Directory nel mirino! Come i criminal hacker rubano NTDS.dit proviene da il blog della sicurezza informatica.
“Memorie cantate”, sabato 27 settembre l’iniziativa dell’ANPI “17 aprile” di Nocera Umbra
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Non solo il ricordo della guerra e della Resistenza nell’Appennino nel 1944, ma anche uno sguardo alle guerre di oggi.
Diritto di accesso, il ritardo nella risposta costa 100mila euro a una banca
@Informatica (Italy e non Italy 😁)
Il Garante privacy ha ribadito che anche le conversazioni telefoniche tra cliente e servizio clienti costituiscono dati personali e devono quindi essere accessibili su richiesta dell’interessato. Il caso BBVA evidenzia come ritardi o disguidi nella consegna
La privatizzazione del governo: secondo i senatori democratici, DOGE sta archiviando il n. di previdenza di ogni americano su un server cloud non sicuro, nonostante il rischio di impatti "catastrofici".
Il rapporto, pubblicato dal senatore Gary Peters (D-MI), cita numerose rivelazioni di informatori, tra cui uno che ha affermato che lo scenario peggiore potrebbe comportare la necessità di riemettere i numeri di previdenza sociale a tutti gli abitanti del Paese.
Il database includerebbe anche luogo e data di nascita o lo stato del permesso di lavoro e i nomi dei genitori. Le potenziali minacce alla sicurezza spaziano dalle violazioni dei dati da parte di avversari stranieri, come Russia, Cina e Iran, agli stessi membri dello staff del DOGE, tra cui Edward "Big Balls" Coristine, che aveva accesso illimitato alle informazioni e che, a quanto pare, era stato licenziato da un precedente tirocinio per aver divulgato dati sensibili.
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DOGE might be storing every American’s SSN on an insecure cloud server
A new report from Senate Democrats reveals that Elon Musk’s DOGE has moved sensitive information, including Social Security Numbers, to a cloud server without verified security measuresEmma Roth (The Verge)
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La premier danese parla alla Nazione, ma riguarda tutti noi. Ecco perché
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Nella serata di ieri la premier danese Mette Frederiksen si è rivolta alla nazione dopo i ripetuti avvistamenti di droni presso aeroporti civili e basi militari. Parole nette, senza concessioni retoriche. La Danimarca, e con essa l’Europa, si trova di fronte a una nuova
Ho cambiato l'istanza PeerTube a cui sono iscritto, c'è qualche automatismo per spostare i 3-4 piccoli video che avevo di là o devo farlo a mano?
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Berlino lavora alla sua Space Force e investe 35 miliardi nello Spazio
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Il ministro della Difesa di tedesco, Boris Pistorius, ha annunciato un investimento record da 35 miliardi di euro nei prossimi cinque anni per dotare la Bundeswehr di capacità spaziali avanzate. Quella spaziale è una corsa contro il tempo. Le grandi potenze (Usa, Cina, Russia)
Torna in attività Yantar, la nave spia russa nelle acque occidentali
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Tra i fondali ed i submarine cables europei è tornata una presenza conosciuta, lo Yantar, nave spia della marina russa che pattuglia i fondali atlantici e nordici per mappare l’infrastruttura più vitale e al tempo stesso più vulnerabile dell’Occidente, i cavi sottomarini. Secondo le
«Trump nega l'evidenza scientifica»: tre scienziati spiegano perché
L'affondo di Trump contro “la truffa” del cambiamento climatico e l'Accordo di Parigi ha sollevato le critiche e le reazioni di chi studia gli effetti del riscaldamento globaleDaniela Fassini (Avvenire)
SIRIA. La sfida impossibile di Ahmad al-Sharaa all’Onu
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Analisi di Giovanna Cavallo del discorso pronunciato all'Onu dal presidente siriano autoproclamato
L'articolo SIRIA. La sfida impossibile di Ahmad al-Sharaa all’Onu proviene da Pagine Esteri.
L’appello di Mattarella alla Flotilla: “Non mettete a rischio le vostre vite. Accettate la mediazione del Patriarcato Latino”
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Il presidente della Repubblica Sergio Mattarella ha lanciato un appello ai componenti della Global Sumud Flotilla, la spedizione umanitaria che si appresta a lasciare Creta per dirigersi a Gaza. “Il valore della vita
Oggi, 26 settembre, Andrea Inglese è a Roma, da TIC in piazza San Cosimato 39 (Trastevere), per presentare il suo ultimo libro, PRATI. Extended version. Tutte le informazioni qui: slowforward.net/2025/09/26/ogg…
NON MANCATE !!
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Da Tic è possibile acquistare anche "Prosa in prosa", leggendario centone con testi di Bortolotti, Broggi, Giovenale, Raos, Zaffarano e dello stesso Inglese: ticedizioni.com/products/prosa…
La pratica testuale della prosa in prosa, invisa al mainstream, ai fascisti e ai piddini, è parte ormai attestata delle scritture di ricerca per come sono venute a costituirsi negli ultimi anni.
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Giappone, un caso da manuale del bullismo economico trumpiano
Per evitare pesanti dazi, il paese asiatico ha accettato un accordo in cui è obbligato a investire 550 miliardi seguendo le indicazioni della Casa Bianca. LeggiAlessandro Lubello (Internazionale)
Hong Kong vuole migliorare i suoi minuscoli appartamenti
Una nuova legge impone che siano grandi almeno 8 metri quadrati, con un bagno chiuso e una finestra: ma non si applica a tutti i casiIl Post
saranno felici i russi...
comunque è una notizia da prendere un po' con le pinze, ma il problema è che il clima non è un sistema lineare, e quindi per quel che sappiamo può tranquillamente succedere. l'unica cosa certe è che in un modo o nell'altro andrà male al genere umano. siamo oramai fragili e vulnerabili a qualsiasi genere di cambiamento. forse incapaci di evolvere e cambiare. e nessuno tiene mai conto della necessità di politiche a lungo termine. l'orizzonte politico massimo è 5 anni e le prossime elezioni. e ovviamente la soluzione non sarebbe fare elezioni meno spesso... sia chiaro. manca coscienza e consapevolezza a tutti i livelli.
Riscaldamento globale, studio scientifico ribalta tutto: in arrivo una glaciazione
La ricerca dell'Università della California a Riverside, pubblicata su Science, ipotizza un meccanismo naturale che nel lunghissimo periodo potrebbe spingere la Terra in una nuova era glacialeTgcom24
#Moldavia, democrazia a senso unico
Moldavia, democrazia a senso unico
Le elezioni parlamentari di domenica prossima in Moldavia e l’autentico terrore dell’Europa per la possibile sconfitta del partito di governo, che ne proietta gli interessi nel paese ex sovietico, hanno fatto scattare un vero e proprio tsunami di dis…www.altrenotizie.org
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La portavoce Maria Elena Delia: "La proposta del governo italiano non apre un corridoio umanitario permanente per Gaza, è solo una iniziativa estemporanea con il fine di fermare la GSF".
L'articolo PODCAST. Flotilla Sumud: “No al
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In esclusiva per Articolo21 la prima puntata del reportage di Sandra Cecchi, giornalista Rai, ex Tg2 appena rientrata dai
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Pechino si candida a guidare il sud del mondo e propone le sue iniziative globali. La Cina promette di ridurre le emissioni di gas serra mentre Trump nega la crisi climatica
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noyb WIN: L'autorità austriaca vieta il credit scoring illegale di KSV1870 noyb ha ottenuto una vittoria nel suo procedimento di reclamo contro l'agenzia austriaca di informazioni creditizie KSV1870 e il fornitore di energia Unsere Wasserkraft mickey26 September 2025
Direttiva anti-SLAPP: Parlamento recepisca la normativa nel provvedimento in esame alla Camera
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Il presidente del Consiglio nazionale dell’Ordine dei giornalisti Carlo Bartoli è stato
50 anni dal “massacro” del Circeo. Latina non dimentica
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La fine di settembre 1975 e l’estate del 1976 rappresentano due date storiche che hanno segnato profondamente la storia del femminismo a Latina e la storia della nostra Associazione, oltre che mutare anche a
Una panchina per Mario Paciolla. 26 settembre, Imola
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Venerdì 26 settembre alle ore 17.00, nel Giardino “Europa Unita” nel quartiere Zolino, ingresso da via Gualandi, si terrà l’iniziativa “Una panchina per Mario”, un momento di memoria e riflessione per ricordare Mario
Regulation works again - if you run Windows 10 in Europe, you will keep receiving extended security updates for free. No need to enable Windows Backup or jump through hoops. October 2025 isn't the end.theverge.com/news/785544/micro…
Microsoft forced to make Windows 10 extended security updates truly free in Europe
You won’t have to enable Windows Backup to get extended Windows 10 security updates in the European Economic Area.Tom Warren (The Verge)
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Con The Cure, Doja Cat, The xx, Gorillaz, Massive Attack, Addison Rae e My Bloody Valentine Mac DeMarco, Pinkpantheress, Skrillex, Peggy Gou, Lola Young, Father John Misty, Ethel Cain, Bad Gyal, Big Thief, Wet Leg, Little Simz, Slowdive, Kneecap, Alex G, Dijon e Blood Orange nella lista dei 150 nomi rivelati oggi. Una costellazione di artisti […]
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Hey Fifa! Parliamone. Eye on palestine
Eye On Palestine
Hey Fifa, why is Israel still participating in the World Cup while they starve Palestinian children? You said that you aren't political, and yet you banned Russia just 4 days after they invaded Ukraine.Telegram
Moderators reversed course on its open door AI policy after fans filled the subreddit with AI-generated Dale Cooper slop.#davidlynch #AISlop #News
Pissed-off Fans Flooded the Twin Peaks Reddit With AI Slop To Protest Its AI Policies
People on r/twinpeaks flooded the subreddit with AI slop images of FBI agent Dale Cooper and ChatGPT generated scripts after the community’s moderators opened the door to posting AI art. The tide of terrible Twin Peaks related slop lasted for about two days before the subreddit’s mods broke, reversed their decision, and deleted the AI generated content.Twin Peaks is a moody TV show that first aired in the 1990s and was followed by a third season in 2017. It’s the work of surrealist auteur David Lynch, influenced lots of TV shows and video games that came after and has a passionate fan base that still shares theories and art to this day. Lynch died earlier this year and since his passing he’s become a talking point for pro-AI art people who point to several interviews and second hand stories they claim show Lynch had embraced an AI-generated slop future.
On Tuesday, a mod posted a long announcement that opened the doors to AI on the sub. In a now deleted post titled “Ai Generated Content On r/twinpeaks,” the moderator outlined the position that the sub was a place for everyone to share memes, theories, and “anything remotely creative as long as it has a loose string to the show or its case or its themes. Ai generated content is included in all of this.”
The post went further. “We are aware of how Ai ‘art’ and Ai generated content can hurt real artists,” the post said. “Unfortunately, this is just the reality of the world we live in today. At this point I don’t think anything can stop the Ai train from coming, it’s here and this is only the beginning. Ai content is becoming harder and harder to identify.”
The mod then asked Redditors to follow an honor system and label any post that used AI with a special new flair so people could filter out those posts if they didn’t want to see them. “We feel this is a best of both worlds compromise that should keep everyone fairly happy,” the mod said.
An honor system, a flair, and a filter did not mollify the community. In the following 48 hours Lynch fans expressed their displeasure by showing r/twinpeaks what it looks like when no one can “stop the Ai train from coming.” They filled the subreddit with AI-generated slop in protest, including horrifying pictures of series protagonist Cooper doing an end-zone dance on a football field while Laura Palmer screamed in the sky and more than a few awful ChatGPT generated scripts.
Image via r/twinpeaks.
Free-IDK-Chicken, a former mod of r/twinpeaks who resigned over the AI debacle, said the post wasn’t run by other members of the mod team. “It was poorly worded. A bad take on a bad stance and it blew up in their face,” she told 404 Media. “It spiraled because it was condescending and basically told the community--we don’t care that it’s theft, that it’s unethical, we’ll just flair it so you can filter it out…they missed the point that AI art steals from legit artists and damages the environment.”According to Free-IDK-Chicken, the subreddit’s mods had been fighting over whether or not to ban AI art for months. “I tried five months ago to get AI banned and was outvoted. I tried again last month and was outvoted again,” she said.
On Thursday morning, with the subreddit buried in AI slop, the mods of r/twinpeaks relented, banned AI art, and cleaned up the protest spam. “After much thought and deliberation about the response to yesterday's events, the TP Mod Team has made the decision to reverse their previous statement on the posting of AI content in our community,” the mods said in a post announcing the new policy. “Going forward, posts including generative AI art or ChatGPT-style content are disallowed in this subreddit. This includes posting AI google search results as they frequently contain misinformation.”
Lynch has become a mascot for pro AI boosters. An image on a pro-AI art subreddit depicts Lynch wearing an OpenAI shirt and pointing at the viewer. “You can’t be punk and also be anti-AI, AI-phobic, or an AI denier. It’s impossible!” reads a sign next to the AI-generated picture of the director.
Image via r/slopcorecirclejerk
As evidence, they point to aBritish Film Institute interview published shortly before his death where he lauds AI and calls it “incredible as a tool for creativity and for machines to help creativity.” AI boosters often leave off the second part of the quote. “I’m sure with all these things, if money is the bottom line, there’d be a lot of sadness, and despair and horror. But I’m hoping better times are coming,” Lynch said.Image via r/slopcorecirclejerk
The other big piece of evidence people use to claim Lynch was pro-AI is a secondhand account given to Vulture by his neighbor, the actress Natasha Lyonne. According to the interview in Vulture, Lyonne asked Lynch for his thoughts on AI and Lynch picked up a pencil and told her that everyone has access to it and to a phone. “It’s how you use the pencil. You see?” He said.Setting aside the environmental and ethical arguments against AI-generated art, if AI is a “pencil,” most of what people make with it is unpleasant slop. Grotesque nonsense fills our social media feeds and AI-generated Jedis and Ghiblis have become the aesthetic of fascism.
We've seen other platforms and communities struggle with keeping AI art at bay when they've allowed it to exist alongside human-made content. On Facebook, Instagram, and Youtube, low-effort garbage is flooding online spaces and pushing productive human conversation to the margins, while floating to the top of engagement algorithms.
Other artist communities are pushing back against AI art in their own ways: Earlier this month, DragonCon organizers ejected a vendor for displaying AI-generated artwork. Artists’ portfolio platform ArtStation banned AI-generated content in 2022. And earlier this year, artists protested the first-ever AI art auction at Christie’s.
Artists Are Revolting Against AI Art on ArtStation
Artists are fed up with AI art on the portfolio platform, which is owned by Epic Games, but the company isn't backing down.Chloe Xiang (VICE)
The tech the Secret Service claims can be used to "disable cell phone towers" is very commonly used by ticket scalpers to game Ticketmaster.#SIMFarm #SIMBank #Tickets #TicketScalping #Ticketmaster
The SIM Farm Hardware Seized by the Secret Service Is Also Popular With Ticket Scalpers
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Tuesday, the Secret Service said it “dismantled a network” of “300 co-located SIM servers and 100,000 SIM cards across multiple sites.” The Secret Service suggested that this network posed a threat to the United Nations General Assembly meeting, which was “within 35 miles” of the servers and which it said could have been used to “disable cell phone towers.” The story quickly went viral, with the New York Times and CNN’s reports being widely shared and discussed.
CNN reported that the SIM servers were used in swatting calls against members of Congress, and the New York Times quoted an expert who said that they believed the servers could be used for espionage. As security researcher Robert Graham points out in a post called “That Secret Service SIM farm story is bogus—it’s just normal crime,” the Secret Service has not yet released any actual evidence of what the SIM servers were used for and it is unclear how such a setup could be used for “espionage.” Graham notes that, based on photos released by the Secret Service and its description of the operations, claims that such a network could have only been created by a sophisticated nation state actor are particularly ridiculous: “I can pull this off, personally. It’s just a SIM farm. Sure, there’s some capital involved, on the order of $1 million, but it could be setup and managed by a single person. It likely wasn’t setup all at once with that much money, but has been slowly growing for years as profits are funneled back into setting up more SIM accounts,” he wrote.
The discovery of a bunch of SIM banks (also called SIM farms, SMS gateways, and several other things) anywhere is interesting from a spam / cybercrime perspective, and they give a type of cyberpunk visual that, frankly, is extremely my shit. But the breathless way this bust has been announced—with a special video announcement by Secret Service director Sean Curran and a clearly embargoed rollout with the New York Times and CNN, makes these SIM farms seem as though they are particularly special and high tech, when they clearly are not. The technology used, which can be seen clearly in photos released by the Secret Service, are regularly used by SMS scammers, spammers, and marketers, yes, but the tech is also extremely widely used by ticket scalpers seeking to create lots of Ticketmaster accounts with which to buy tickets. This is off-the-shelf technology that anyone can buy and use; if one had enough money, one could surely buy 300 of them from Ejointech, the Chinese company that makes them, and set something like this up.
I have been familiar with and meaning to write about SIM banks for a few months now, specifically because they have become popular with ticket scalpers. Like many “anti-scalping” and anti-fraud measures taken by Ticketmaster, relatively recent updates that require SMS verification to create a new Ticketmaster account and immediately before buying tickets hasn’t actually stopped scalping. Instead, it has created a new underground market for tools that make SMS authentication at bulk easier. By adding this barrier to entry, Ticketmaster has ensured that normal fans have one single attempt to buy tickets, while motivated ticket scalpers with specialized tech can have many attempts at buying tickets.This SMS verification system has created a new underground market for various technologies and software that lets scalpers game this SMS verification system. SIM boxes are such an important part of that new underground market that Ejointech now advertises one of its products—which looks very much like the models shown in the Secret Service’s images from the seized servers in New York—as specifically being good “for ticketing & bulk SMS.”
“Popular model: used by 5,000+ leading ticket brokers globally & trusted for thousands of large-scale SMS campaigns!,” Ejointech advertises on the $3,730 Ejoin 256 SIM 4G LTE SMS Gateway. On TikTok, it advertises a similar, 512 SIM card model as having “human behavior,” “cloud management,” and “auto SIM card switch.”
“Ticket brokers, streamline your Ticketmaster operations with EjoinTech! Our SMS gateway devices support up to 512 SIM cards, ensuring you never miss a verification code,” the company says. “Designed for efficiency with no unnecessary noise.”
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There is of course no evidence that the SIM boxes seized by the Secret Service this week were used by ticket scalpers, but there’s also no public evidence released by the Secret Service that suggests they were going to try to disrupt the UN General Council’s meeting. The point I’m making is that these devices and these types of farms have become somewhat common in recent years, and they are used not just to send messages in bulk but to receive them in bulk, too. They are used not just for crimes, but for various grey market and controversial, but not necessarily illegal, purposes too.“Proxies” and real SIM cards that can receive SMS messages have become critical to the ticket scalping industry. The way ticket scalping works now is that big time brokers will create many (hundreds or thousands) of unique Ticketmaster accounts, each associated with their own phone number. These are sometimes made using prepaid or low-cost wireless carriers like MobileX, whose SIM cards appeared in bulk in Secret Service materials.
Not every big time broker is going to want to roll their own SIM bank, so a series of companies have popped up that offer “proxies,” which just means that they are basically a company running and selling access to phone numbers, keeping them online, and forwarding SMS codes directly to the ticket broker buying them. These companies do not advertise what specific hardware they are using to do this, but SIM boxes could easily be used to do this, and the scale of farm that the Secret Service found is not particularly large considering these types of services exist. They go by names like “WiredSMS,” “TextChest,” “Quick-Text,” “SMSPass,” and “Jivetel,” among others. TextChest advertises “industry-leading physical SIM lines, trusted by thousands.” A company called Seat Heroes notes that it is “carrier compliant” and that “while others rely on risky, unauthorized setups, Seat Heroes runs on the first ever Tier 1 carrier-integrated infrastructure—no modems, no VOIP, just proprietary and exclusive access to genuine numbers—always on, 24/7” and “no SIM banks—just direct connections.”
In practice, ticket brokers connect their proxies—either bought from a third party or rolled by themselves—to other bespoke ticketing-buying software that helps them actually manage tons of Ticketmaster accounts and tons of phone numbers at once. There are a host of ticket broker-specific internet browsers that allow brokers to open hundreds or thousands of browser tabs, which each have a browsing session tied to either a specific SIM card or to an IP proxy which can also be bought from third-party services. This allows brokers to power through Ticketmaster’s “Virtual Waiting Rooms” because a broker can have hundreds or thousands of independent browser sessions waiting as separate “people.” The SIM box (or a SIM proxy service) can then be set up in these bespoke browsers to automatically forward and submit Ticketmaster’s SMS two-factor authentication, which is supposedly designed to prevent scalpers from getting tickets.At one point, Private Tabs, one of the bespoke browsers for ticket scalpers, was advertising a “SIMBOX HARDWARE ADD-ON,” which could “add 512 phone numbers for $3 per line.”
“These hardware devices allow you to add 512 phone numbers to your Private Tabs account,” an archived version of the Private Tabs website reads. “If you already have one, then you can just add it to the config or call us, and we’ll set it up for ya. This ensures that every account you load in has its dedicated number. Rather than paying $9 to $24 per phone number, you can purchase one of these devices and get a phone line for as little as $3 per number. Typically, they pay for themselves within 2 months since each device can hold 512 numbers. With this device you do not need ‘TextChest’ or ‘Private Tab Phones’ [a proxy service] as you can host your own numbers for half the cost.”
The Private Tabs web browser no longer advertises SIM boxes, and in a FAQ on its current website, it says says people using their own telecom hardware may run into problems: "There have been recent reports as of 9/5/2025 that some people using Chinese hardware is a problem. You may want to contact your phone company before trying to integrate it with the API to confirm it works ok."
Ticketmaster Used Revolving Barcodes to Control Ticket Resale Market and Surveil Customers, DOJ Alleges
"We now not only know the person that bought the ticket, but we’re going to know those three people that you are taking to the show, which we have not known historically."Jason Koebler (404 Media)
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🎶 #Milano, questa sera a partire dalle ore 19.30, presso il Duomo, si svolgerà il terzo incontro del progetto “Uto Ughi per i Giovani”.Telegram
ma quando mi trovo davanti a un tagliagole di Al Queda e dell'ISIS mi sciolgo tutta!
È uscito il nuovo numero di The Post Internazionale. Da oggi potete acquistare la copia digitale
@Politica interna, europea e internazionale
È uscito il nuovo numero di The Post Internazionale. Il magazine, disponibile già da ora nella versione digitale sulla nostra App, e da domani, venerdì 26 settembre, in tutte le edicole, propone ogni due settimane inchieste e approfondimenti sugli affari e il potere
Multiple Palantir and Flock sources say the companies are spinning a commitment to "democracy" to absolve them of responsibility. "In my eyes, it is the classic double speak," one said.#News
How Surveillance Firms Use ‘Democracy’ As a Cover for Serving ICE and Trump
In a blog post published in June, Garrett Langley, the CEO and co-founder of surveillance company Flock, said “We rely on the democratic process, on the individuals that the majority vote for to represent us, to determine what is and is not acceptable in cities and states.” The post explained that the company believes the laws of the country and individual states and municipalities, not the company, should determine the limits of what Flock’s technology can be used for, and came after 404 Media revealed local police were tapping into Flock’s networks of AI-enabled cameras for ICE, and that a sheriff in Texas performed a nationwide search for a woman who self-administered an abortion.💡
Do you work at any of these companies or others like them? I would love to hear from you. Using a non-work device, you can message me securely on Signal at joseph.404 or send me an email at joseph@404media.co.Langley’s statement echoes a common refrain surveillance and tech companies selling their products to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) or other parts of the U.S. government have said during the second Trump administration: we live in a democracy. It is not our job to decide how our powerful capabilities, which can track peoples’ physical location, marry usually disparate datasets together, or crush dissent, can or should be used. At least, that’s the thrust of the argument. That is despite the very clear reality that the first Trump administration was very different to the Biden administration, and both pale in comparison to Trump 2.0, with the executive branch and various agencies flaunting ordinary democratic values. The idea of what a democracy is capable of has shifted.
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