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Decoherence Media @decoherence.media · 1d

As part of our investigation into the Rope Culture web server, we created a search interface for Nazi forum scrapes and leaked databases called FashyLeaks. Currently it includes the Iron March and Rope Culture datasets, with many more to come.

Decoherence Media @decoherence.media · 1d

We found the exposed web server of Rope Culture, a neo-Nazi online magazine from the same Nazis behind the notorious Iron March forum. It contains hundreds of email addresses of the site’s commenters, emails sent to & from their mail server & the IP address of every visit to the site.

Neo-Nazi “Rope Culture” Web Server Reveals the Structure and Culture of a Far-Right Network

Part I: The exposed web server of Rope Culture, a neo-Nazi online magazine, contains a trove of data for understanding the transnational far-right

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Michael Loadenthal @mloadenthal.bsky.social · 1d

www.justsecurity.org/122643/antif...

Yes, i concur.

Designating Antifa as FTO Could Threaten Civil Liberties

Trump's plan to designate Antifa as an FTO has implications extending beyond anti-fascist activists to the architecture of US civil society.

www.justsecurity.org

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Michael Loadenthal @mloadenthal.bsky.social · 1d

Two very exciting security enhancements are coming down the pipes:

1. Apple's Memory Integrity Enforcement as defense against Pegasus and other advanced malware security.apple.com/blog/memory-...

2. Signal's Post-Quantum Ratchets as defense against quantum cryptanalysis signal.org/blog/spqr/

👍😀👍

Memory Integrity Enforcement: A complete vision for memory safety in Apple devices - Apple Security Research

Memory Integrity Enforcement (MIE) is the culmination of an unprecedented design and engineering effort spanning half a decade that combines the unique strengths of Apple silicon hardware with our adv...

security.apple.com

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Tristan Lee @tristanl.ee · 1d

Decoherence Media is publishing the first article in our 3 part investigation of the leaked web server for Rope Culture, the in-house magazine of notorious Nazi forum Iron March. There are hundreds of new Nazi email addresses and comments for researchers and journalists to dig through.

Decoherence Media @decoherence.media · 1d

We found the exposed web server of Rope Culture, a neo-Nazi online magazine from the same Nazis behind the notorious Iron March forum. It contains hundreds of email addresses of the site’s commenters, emails sent to & from their mail server & the IP address of every visit to the site.

Neo-Nazi “Rope Culture” Web Server Reveals the Structure and Culture of a Far-Right Network

Part I: The exposed web server of Rope Culture, a neo-Nazi online magazine, contains a trove of data for understanding the transnational far-right

decoherence.media

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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 2d

From @stevanzetti.bsky.social: In February, the Texas Observer confirmed that James “Jim” Joseph Rodden—an ICE assistant chief counsel in Dallas—operates a white supremacist X account. Now, ICE refuses to tell us, or members of Congress, if he's still employed.

ICE Still Won't Answer Questions About Prosecutor with White Supremacist X Account

Congressman Marc Veasey arrived at an ICE facility Monday in his latest attempt to follow up on the Observer's reporting.

www.texasobserver.org

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Michael Loadenthal @mloadenthal.bsky.social · 4d

The first two were seen riverside in Cincinnati. The third…an ‘exchange’ about nazis, seemingly pro and con. (I’m assuming the ‘I’ was a second writer…)🤷

Notable rise in explicitly anti-nazi messaging in stuff I’m seeing.

Wonder why?

It’s a beautiful day to punch a nazi sticker

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Michael Loadenthal @mloadenthal.bsky.social · 4d

Re, re-posting this because it’s great and @micahflee.com ‘s work is excellent.

Micah Lee @micahflee.com · Jun 16

I wrote about how to turn in-person meetings into Signal groups, how to manage large semi-public Signal groups while vetting new members, and how to sue announcement-only Signal groups, perfect for rapidly responding to ICE raids micahflee.com/using-signal...

Using Signal groups for activism

Things are heating up. Millions of people are taking to the streets against Trump's rising authoritarianism. Communities around the US are organizing to defend against ICE raids, to protest Israeli ge...

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Michael Loadenthal @mloadenthal.bsky.social · 4d

“Department of Homeland Security obtains first-known warrant targeting OpenAI for user prompts in ChatGPT…DHS has secured a federal search warrant ordering OpenAI to identify a user of ChatGPT and to produce the user’s prompts, as part of a child-exploitation investigation.“

OpenAI Ordered To Unmask ChatGPT User Behind 2 Prompts

Filed by child exploitation investigators with the DHS, the warrant reveals the government can ask OpenAI to provide information on anyone who enters specific prompts.

www.forbes.com

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Front Range Antifascists @frontrangeantifa.bsky.social · 7d

NEW: CU Boulder sophomore Nathaniel Ellis has been identified as a member of the white supremacist groups Patriot Front and Active Club.

Nathan is on the Executive Board for CU Boulder's Turning Point USA Chapter.

Read the full report: frontrangeantifa.noblogs.org/nathan-ellis/

Three photos of Patriot Front member Nathaniel Ellis

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Michael Loadenthal @mloadenthal.bsky.social · 8d

"...security researchers...curious about a scandal in the world of electronic safes: Liberty Safe...had apparently given the FBI a code that allowed agents to open a criminal suspect's safe in response to a warrant related to the Jan 6, 2021, invasion of the US Capitol."

archive.ph/202510090828...

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Michael Loadenthal @mloadenthal.bsky.social · 9d

Prosecutor in 2017 anti-Trump protest cases faces license suspension - www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

#J20

Prosecutor in 2017 anti-Trump protest cases faces license suspension

An attorney disciplinary board in Washington, D.C., has recommended a three-month law license suspension for a former federal prosecutor who allegedly used deceptively edited videos as evidence in criminal cases against people who were arrested while protesting Republican President Donald Trump's first inauguration.

www.reuters.com

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Michael Loadenthal @mloadenthal.bsky.social · 9d

“the operation used around 42 types of "special cyberattack weapons" to infiltrate the National Time Service Center…disruption of network communications, financial systems and power supply…NSA exploited vulnerabilities in a foreign mobile phone brand's messaging system to steal sensitive info”

China claims the NSA conducted cyberattacks on its national time center

China's State Security Ministry accused the US' National Security Agency of a serious cyberattack operation.

www.engadget.com

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Michael Loadenthal @mloadenthal.bsky.social · 9d

"Today’s ruling bans spyware maker NSO from ever targeting WhatsApp and our global users again...We applaud this decision that comes after six years of litigation to hold NSO accountable for targeting members of civil society."

US court orders spyware company NSO to stop targeting WhatsApp, reduces damages

A U.S. court has ordered Israel's NSO Group to stop targeting Meta Platforms' WhatsApp messaging service, a development the spyware company warned could put it out of business.

www.reuters.com

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Michael Loadenthal @mloadenthal.bsky.social · 12d

“…35,596 companies that use F5 Networks…most often found in United States and in the Information Technology and Services industry. F5 Networks is most often used by companies with 10-50 employees and 1M-10M dollars in revenue.”

F5 Networks commands 17.82% market share in Networking Hardware

enlyft industry research shows that F5 Networks has a market share of about 17.82% compared to leading competitors Cisco Firewalls, Dell SonicWALL and Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances.

enlyft.com

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Michael Loadenthal @mloadenthal.bsky.social · 12d

“In August 2025, we learned a highly sophisticated nation-state threat actor maintained long-term, persistent access to, and downloaded files from, certain F5 systems.”

Nation-state
Long-term, persistent access

Not good.

myF5

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Michael Loadenthal @mloadenthal.bsky.social · 15d

resident.ngo/lab/writeups...

Because knowing is half the battle…

Technical Writeup: Signal Account Takeovers Phishing Campaign Targets Exiled Belarusian Activists 2025 - RESIDENT.NGO THREAT LAB

This writeup details a targeted Signal Account Takeover (ATO) Phishing Campaign identified by RESIDENT.NGO. The campaign utilizes spear phishing conducted in Polish or English via Signal Messenger and...

resident.ngo

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Michael Loadenthal @mloadenthal.bsky.social · 22d

authentic8.com/blog/investi...

Interesting read. What can be observe via OSINT from Signal?

Investigating on Signal

Learn how Signal works and inspect the different ways in which OSINT gatherers can collect practical intelligence from the platform.

authentic8.com

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Michael Loadenthal @mloadenthal.bsky.social · 24d

The children are the future.

[all images photographed at the Contemporary Arts Center]

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Michael Loadenthal @mloadenthal.bsky.social · 25d

Love this.

I’ve been saying for years, if you don’t work through your threat model first, you’re missing the point—like wearing a combat helmet but forgetting to put on shoes…then stepping on a nail. Over securing here when there’s the problem.

Measure twice, cut once.

Encryption At Rest: Whose Threat Model Is It Anyway?

Head’s up: This is a blog post about applied cryptography, with a focus on web and cloud applications that encrypt data at rest in a database or filesystem. While the lessons can be broadly a…

scottarc.blog

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Michael Loadenthal @mloadenthal.bsky.social · Sep 26

www.schneier.com/blog/archive...

Digital Threat Modeling Under Authoritarianism - Schneier on Security

Today’s world requires us to make complex and nuanced decisions about our digital security. Evaluating when to use a secure messaging app like Signal or WhatsApp, which passwords to store on your smar...

www.schneier.com

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Michael Loadenthal @mloadenthal.bsky.social · Sep 25

Oops, and a third, a qualitative investigation of the online culture of security and paranoia within the far-right. This piece is available for reading here: michaelloadenthal.academia.edu/research#boo...

Michael Loadenthal

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Michael Loadenthal @mloadenthal.bsky.social · Sep 25

Writing is like gardening (at least for me). I plant & plant, & things come up when they want. This month, 2 such blooms....one discussing neo-nazi survivalist network the Base, & the other, the video releases of Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

Check 'em out @ michaelloadenthal.academia.edu/research

Michael Loadenthal

michaelloadenthal.academia.edu

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Michael Loadenthal @mloadenthal.bsky.social · Sep 24

ICYMI in today’s game of ‘is it a hostile nation-state’ or a ‘well- resourced other’ i present this:

www.secretservice.gov/newsroom/rel...

U.S. Secret Service dismantles imminent telecommunications threat in New York tristate area | United States Secret Service

www.secretservice.gov

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · Sep 23

“Try to minimize what you take with you across the border to only the essentials,” EFF’s @legind.bsky.social advises international travelers in @wired.com. “If you are taking a vacation, do you really need that work laptop with you?”

Worried About Phone Searches? 1Password's Travel Mode Can Clean Up Your Data

Travel Mode not only hides your most sensitive data—it acts as if that data never existed in the first place.

www.wired.com

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · Sep 19

"The DHS subpoena asked Meta to provide the 'subscriber names, e-mails and telephone numbers associated as of 08/01/2025 through 09/03/2025' for multiple Instagram accounts, but Meta redacted all of the other usernames aside from @stopicenet."
#California #USA #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

The Feds Want to Unmask Instagram Accounts That Identified Immigration Agents

StopICE.net filed a motion to quash a subpoena about an Instagram video that identified a Border Patrol agent.

theintercept.com

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