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Mustafa Al-Bassam
Celestia
@musalbas
Co-founder @Celestia
Joined May 2013
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    Replying to @stablekwon
    "Are you in Asia to avoid the US" Lady can't you see I'm Asian 🤦‍♂️
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    Quick phishing demo. Would you fall for something like this?
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    ISIS guy 1: I know, let's use cryptography to hide our messages! ISIS guy 2: We can't, it's against the law in the UK. ISIS guy 1: Oh, OK.
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    In 2016, I was touched on the shoulder by John McAfee
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    Last week, NEAR Co-Founder @ilblackdragon was touched on the arm by Jensen Huang, Founder of @nvidia 💻 They were joined on stage by the other co-authors of "Attention is All You Need". Learn about that touch and the intersection of AI and blockchain: bit.ly/4cpRXGl
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    Replying to @musalbas
    Even if you uninstall Google Maps, Google Play's background service is tracking your location 24/7.
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    This log4j exploit = remote code execution in basically everything Arbitrary code execution in iCloud, Twitter, Steam, CloudFlare, Amazon, Tesla, Baidu, Tencent This may well be devastating 0day RCE exploit that has ever been dropped in all of history. github.com/YfryTchsGD/Log…
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    Replying to @musalbas
    So even the NSA hacks machines from compromised servers in China and Russia. This is why attribution is hard.
    New Shadow Brokers dump contains list of servers compromised by the NSA to use as exploit staging servers.
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    New Shadow Brokers dump contains list of servers compromised by the NSA to use as exploit staging servers.
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    Crypto has a serious problem. We're stuck in an endless cycle of new L1 smart contract platforms. Each purport to fix the problems of the L1s in the previous cycles. These L1s rinse and repeat the same bizdev strategy of prior L1s, building copy-cat DeFi & NFT ecosystems.
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    Ian Levy of GCHQ has released an essay on how law enforcement should get access to end-to-end encrypted communications. Here is the critical bit to pay attention to. They're proposing to exploit the fact that users don't verify each other's public keys, and inject bad keys.
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    Thread: as the only research co-founder of Chainspace that did not join Facebook (the blockchain scalability startup that Facebook acquired), people have been asking me about my view of Libra. Here's a thread about it.
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    Replying to @musalbas
    The NSA has been sitting on a zero day exploit to remotely grab VPN keys from Cisco firewalls for FOURTEEN years.
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    Remember BenignCertain, a Cisco exploit to grab VPN keys? Turns out current Cisco versions are also exploitable! tools.cisco.com/security/cente…
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    I'm confused, is London Bridge a website in cyberspace that had a cyberattack
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    Replying to @musalbas
    It seems that with the latest versions of Android, Google Maps is on 24/7, waiting to send you notifications, with no way to disable it.