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Who knew that Google Maps image filenames were so useful? But when Koltai.bsky.social showed me how to extract them, it made so much sense to build a simple tool that does it for you! 🖼️👩‍💻 bellingcat.com/resources/2024…

Galen has done it again 🙌 this time a tool that displays filenames on Google Maps user uploads

Video released by the IDF allowed the site where Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was killed to be geolocated to the Tal as-Sultan neighbourhood in Rafah. By Jake Godin for Bellingcat: bellingcat.com/news/2024/10/1…

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Israel's NSO Group is lobbying Republicans hard to reverse its U.S. blacklisting, spending nearly $2 mil so far this year. On the same day lobbyists for NSO met with Texas Rep. Pete Sessions, they gave $1,000 to “Pete Sessions for Congress.” The Intercept

NEW: (and very good news) 🇬🇧 UK-based dissident can sue Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 for alleged spyware, court rules reuters.com/world/uk-based…

Many have asked about Google Earth's new browser updates and how they work, so here’s a quick guide on timelapses, historical imagery and easy sharing with case studies on Amazon deforestation, conflict destruction and disaster damage. youtu.be/1aR1s0tkYhs?si…

New: lawsuit says warrantless use of Flock surveillance cameras—those license plate reading cameras that are in towns big & small across US—is unconstitutional "impossible for people to drive anywhere without having their movements tracked" 404media.co/lawsuit-argues…

Annnnnnd it's suspended again; well done @skirchy for highlighting

In 2020, authorities arrested armed men who drove a Hummer with a QAnon sticker and a US flag on it from Virginia to a ballot counting centre in Pennsylvania. The rhetoric has gotten worse since then. It's grim but unsurprising that election officials are bracing themselves.

The DHS quietly warned this month that cybercriminals—particularly ransomware actors—are more likely than state-sponsored hackers to actually disrupt election infrastructure. A pretty disturbing benchmark from Lily Hay Newman and @dell.bsky.social wired.com/story/cybercri…

Striking open-source investigation by Le Monde: security personnel for Biden (and wife), Trump (and wife), Harris, Pence, Putin, and Macron all used Strava, inadvertently exposing the whereabouts of the (vice) presidents they were tasked to protect. youtube.com/watch?v=KX7f1P…

🧵Google Earth has updated some of it's satellite imagery from northern and central #Gaza to 14/19 October 2023 I'll share some locations below. Eastern Shuja'iyya - 19 Oct. 2023 (31.490771, 34.478575) 1/

SCOOP: Chinese hackers who tunneled deeply into U.S. telecommunications providers successfully captured audio recordings from people affiliated with BOTH the Harris and Trump campaigns as part of Beijing's far broader and very successful spying operation. wsj.com/livecoverage/h…

Moving over here: bsky.app/profile/nathan…