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- Ehud Baraj, wasn't he a close confidante of Epstein?
- I assume you mean Ehud Barak? Surely not, or I would have heard about it in the US media for sure.by tdeck
- So NSA Wiretapping is illegal but ICE is ok? This administration is so wantonly criminal.
- Wait, since when has the NSA stopped collecting data? That assumption is new to me.by mc32
- great article, very detailed
- for people that don't understand how bad ICE is, here is a brief selection of _recent_ news about ICE, this isn't even like the product of an extensive search
Ice buys shock gloves https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/a-perfect-tool-for-abuse...
ICE doesn't pay hospital bills: https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/ice-detainee-me...
DOJ blocked federal prosecution of ICE agent in shooting: https://www.propublica.org/article/doj-blocks-charges-ice-ag...
ICE doesn't vet candidates: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/us/ice-recruits-national-...
ICE agent with history of violent behavior shoots man in Maine: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/ap-report-ice-officer-in...
ICE puts tracking devices on Haitians who were here legally: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/haitians-ohio-l...
Haitian student commits suicide after being forced to wear tracking device https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/springfield-ohio-haitia...
ICE Deports Milo Yiannopoulos, to settle some intra-MAGA feud: https://sfist.com/2026/08/28/milo-yiannopoulos-detained-by-i...
Like, that isn't like cherry-picking, it's a five minute scroll through one of my social media feeds.
They are a stain on the US and need to be abolished.
by empath75 - > ICE Deports Milo Yiannopoulos, to settle some intra-MAGA feud
This is probably the one valid thing they did. He's truly vile [1]. He's also illustrative of how most undocumented people aren't "sneaking across the border" as the media claims but are simply visa overstayers. Still, Laura Loomer shouldn't have the power to advance his deportation. The story goes that he was in removal proceedings and he didn't show up for his hearing before an immigration judge so was ordered deported in absentia and then ICE picked him up.
Milo Yiannopoulos is just not a hill I'm ever willing to die on.
[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/30/milo-yiannop...
by jmyeet - Indeed. But when the rubber meets the road, even our community has trouble standing behind people taking direct action to disrupt ICE activities. eg: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48727750by jMyles
unsurprising that it's closed source software which is vulnerable like this. LLMs can now decompile binaries very efficiently so it's not even security by obscurity anymore.> Researchers have confirmed Graphite attacks through WhatsApp and iMessage, although the complete method remains secret.you really have to screw up to not carefully trace the path of incoming messages to ensure they are processed safely.
by teravor- Does this article have any information in it from 2026? or is it just a sloppy rehash of information from a year ago.
May 2026: DHS says ICE has 'no relationship' with spyware maker Paragon Solutions
https://www.npr.org/2026/05/22/nx-s1-5831577/dhs-ice-spyware...
- Seems a low price for no-click zero-day infectionsby edoceo
- My first thought too.by bobowzki
- They reuse the same zero-days across multiple countries and agencies; Israelis are very efficient at doing business.by miohtama
- > The most dangerous infections require no mistake by the target. A zero-click attack works because phones automatically inspect incoming messages and files before displaying them.
It’s zero click but it needs an entry point, do we know the entry point? Yes of course! It’s the phone number!! I hope now you know why they keep phone numbers as a mean of identification, all the big tech and advancement in protocols and what not, yet you are still required to have a phone number as an ID “to fight spam, spoiler: it doesn’t”, or even as a 2FA, Canada for example is making a unified login portal to its all government services and the 2FA is only a phone number, how convenient!!
Phone number is the entry point for zero click, but also for tracking you even when your gps is disabled btw, phone modems has their own gnss and they send location to the towers all the time.
To prevent that, keep the phone number in another phone, not your main (keep your main with no sim card), preferably some dummy phone that you will only use when you need to otherwise it’s on airplane mode.
by tamimio - If you don't use third party messaging services your phone number is not necessarily an entry point. Your particular device could have an sms 0day, but it's less universally applicable.by idiotsecant
- > "It’s zero click but it needs an entry point, do we know the entry point? Yes of course! It’s the phone number!!"
Sort of, but not really. iMessage, Whatsapp, Signal, etc are the actual entry point. You can use some of those services without a phone number and having your phone number tied to a different device isn't going to protect you. If you had none of those on your phone most of these attacks wouldn't work.
> phone modems has their own gnss and they send location to the towers all the time
Cell modems don't have their "own gnss", nor would it be needed to track people. Cell signal triangulation is what the mobile networks utilize. It is mainly used to help provide location data to emergency services and is accurate enough with three or more towers. They can also do it with two, but then it's a less accurate positioning, with the user's location being in the overlap of the two cells.
by strictnein - Meanwhile in Serbia
https://citizenlab.ca/research/pegasus-spyware-infection-of-...
"In collaboration with the SHARE Foundation, the Citizen Lab analyzed forensic artefacts from the iPhone of a member of Serbia’s student protest movement after they received an Apple Threat Notification warning of targeting with mercenary spyware."
Zero clicks are cheap if NSO can afford to go after students.
by miohtama - When a company sells a 0-click exploit like that, they don't sell the actual malware/exploit, they sell access to a service or product. The contract will likely have a certain number of attacks with additional infections having a set price of $XXk.
That is how companies like Crowdfense can pay up to $5 million for an exploit. The sell it to some service (or have the service themselves) and generate revenue off of that. The person who sells that exploit gets some of that revenue, they're not getting $5 million up front.
by strictnein
This buries the lede a bit. These companies play their part in trans-national organized crime networks, spanning countries like the USA, Russia and Israel. In Russia, it is often hard to delineate between organized crime and the FSB, because these networks overlap and they are often well established within the structures of the state. The same increasingly applies to the USA. ICE is becoming a paramilitary force, "immigration control" is clearly not its only purpose. I cannot unsee this from the massive purges in the military, rooting out the most competent leadership. The parallels with Russia can't be ignored.> Graphite belongs to the same category of commercial surveillance technology as Pegasus, the better-known spyware developed by NSO Group. Both are classified as mercenary spyware, meaning private companies develop and sell them to government intelligence and law enforcement agencies.by exceptione- > I cannot unsee this from the massive purges in the military, rooting out the most competent leadership.
Structural coherence issues aside, is this some sort of a joke, or just thinly veiled personal bias presented as fact?
- > In Russia, it is often hard to delineate between organized crime and the FSB, because these networks overlap and they are often well established within the structures of the state.
This already applies to the USA where Trump was very likely involved with the mob who were deeply embedded in the fabric of NYC. All of his NYC construction projects were pushed through and built by mobbed up companies. It's obvious he's in bed with anyone who will get him what he wants, criminal or not.
by MisterTea - > ICE is becoming a paramilitary force
this is how the gestapo gets established.
by chii - What is ICE doing besides immigration control?by headsman771
- Becoming?by thesuitonym
- there are many if these companies and toolkits. too many to mention. more than 150 countries spend over 10M a year on _offensive_ cyber. generally making use of such toolkits if they lack inhouse capabilities, which is pretty much all of those countries because the people creating the capabilities will refuse to work for them, so they can sell their tools.