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#hacking is an active hashtag on Bluesky. In the last 30 days, 223 people shared 1,682 posts with it — around 56 a day. Activity is down 5% versus the previous week, peaking on Oct 22 with 84 posts.

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@bsky.realhackhistory.org
3 days ago
Excerpt from my next long form #blog, on the life, career & crimes of the grandfather of #ransomware, Dr Joseph Lewis Popp. WordPress estimates it is currently a 25 minute read, it will be the most complete account of this odd character anywhere when finished. #hacking #hacker #history #skystorians
He is described as having “dressed in a Banana Republic outfit with a loaded and cocked elephant rifle over his shoulder” and that Popp “fancied himself the Great White Hunter”. Sapolsky described him as “politically conservative and homophobic” and Rebecca Yerak notes that Popp’s “activities and attitudes angered some Kenyans.” In Christopher Evans’ article he wrote that “for a while” “Popp was engaged to a ballerina in the Nairobi Dance Troupe” which caused some gossip among his colleagues but that Popp’s many money making schemes raised more eyebrows. He had apiaries and sold the honey, had baboon t-shirts made so that he could sell them to tourists, published postcards and wildlife books but one of his schemes got him into trouble with the Kenyan authorities. Joseph Popp had decided to act as a tour guide for visiting tourists on the Masai Mara game reserve, violating Kenyan law that forbade foreign researchers from profiting from their research positions. His Harvard adviser Irven DeVore told Evans that “any time the Kenyan government interfered with research studies, Joe was blamed.” It is hard to read the accounts of Popp’s years in Africa without picking up on heavy implications of racism on his part or that at the very least he considered himself above the law and local customs. Joseph Popp’s time doing research on the reserve in Kenya came to an end when he became involved in a fist fight with a game reserve official, an incident that caused the Kenyan authorities to briefly revoke all field researcher licenses across the country. Popp’s colleagues said the altercation and its aftermath soured relations between U.S. researchers and local Kenyans even after Popp eventually left. Sapolsky said of the incident that after it Popp “packed up his car with his gun and his suitcases and he went into hiding, after leaving a note for me, saying I needed to go to the U.S. embassy and tell them to contact Kissinger and say his life was in danger and he needed hel
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Techdirt
@techdirt.com
4 days ago
Israeli Spy Company Busted Using Malware Ads To Infect, Locate, And Spy On Starlink Users Israeli spy outfit Discover-Tech spied on internet users through a sprawling... www.techdirt.com/2026/11/…

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Israeli Spy Company Busted Using Malware Ads To Infect, Locate, And Spy On Starlink Users

Israeli spy outfit Discover-Tech spied on internet users through a sprawling network of dodgy online ads ​that it used to track, surveil, and geolocate internet users. In some instances simply having the firm’s “zero click” spyware ads displayed by devices resulted in infection. The company seemed particularly interested in using ads to surveil and geolocate...
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