🇩🇪 prosecutors appear to be able to **deanonymize Tor ** by tapping servers, for years (!) and doing "timing analysis". In one case – Ricochet, related to CSAM – they did this four times, ordered telco provider to identify customer connecting to entry node tagesschau.de/investigativ/p…

hakan I read this as: more entities, including those outside big intel agencies, have the resources & know how to implement this long-known decloaking method and so inevitably the cases are starting to come out.

US official public comments sound pretty unhappy with the Israeli operation

The Australian government would rather auction off military equipment than offer it to #Ukraine. A story of parsimony & mean spiritedness towards a country in need by ⁦Richard Marles⁩ ⁦Anthony Albanese⁩ and ⁦Senator Penny Wong⁩. Shameful. smh.com.au/politics/feder…

India breaks with BRICS, Global South and rest of South Asia (except Nepal) to abstain on UNGA resolution based on ICJ order, that calls on Israel to withdraw from Palestinian territories within a year. Interesting that Japan voted for the resolution- 124 countries supported.

Man I have never felt so PROTECTED as a CONSUMER, thank you Thierry Breton 🙏

Nothing gets past Cheltenham. "John Bayliss, a former official at GCHQ, pointed out that the fact BAC had its name printed on a piece of A4 and stuck to the glass door of the address lent credence to the suggestion that it was a front company." thetimes.com/world/israel-h…

This isn't a specific judgment on events this week, but one general pattern we see in the past year is that many people struggle to distinguish between the question of whether someone or something is a valid military target & whether a specific attack against it/them is valid.

The tilt to ballistic missiles. "In practice, however, recent conflict experience has raised doubts about the effectiveness of subsonic cruise missiles without stealth capabilities. Ukraine regularly succeeds in shooting down Russian cruise missiles" iiss.org/online-analysi…

'Taiwan's national security team is "paying great attention" to the detonation of thousands of pagers targeting Hezbollah in Lebanon, the island's defence minister said, after a Taiwanese firm was linked to the pagers' production.' reuters.com/world/taiwan-s…

'A former British Army bomb disposal officer explained that an explosive device has five main components: A container, a battery, a triggering device, a detonator and an explosive charge. “A pager has three of those already,” said the ex-officer...' apnews.com/article/lebano…

- Per #Lebanon authorities, 37 people were killed in the pager/radio attacks on Tuesday & Wednesday. - Per #Hezbollah, 37 fighters have been killed in the past 48hrs, 3 of them in airstrikes. So 34/37 (92%) of deaths were #Hezbollah.

Today, Hezbollah is facing its limitations: - penetrated and battered by Israel - doubted by many in its constituency - distrusted or even opposed by many Lebanon - ridiculed by its Arab detractors - and even out of sync with Iran. You know what would help it rebound? An

It is getting increasingly hard to tell whether this is coercion of Hezbollah to force them into a change or a preparation for a ground war. Risk of latter appears to be rising.

A good assessment of Israeli options in the north, and why none of them are great. "Israel would likely have to keep expanding the limited buffer zone until it finds itself restoring the security zone that it left in 2000." timesofisrael.com/while-still-in…

"Senior Israeli officials have told Nasrallah in messages relayed, that he can end the fighting if he agrees to a deal that includes distancing Hezbollah's elite Radwan forces from the border and eliminating their threat to the residents there." ynetnews.com/article/sjofc3…

The problem with this argument is that it appears to assume that Russian & China were and are remotely interested in suspending strategic competition for the sake of co-operation on the climate crisis. Or that only the West would make concessions. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…