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The Pangu Team—iOS Jailbreak and Vulnerability Research Giant: A Member of i-SOON’s Exploit-Sharing Network
A year after the i-SOON leaks, a deep dive into the Pangu Team reveals new insight into the relationships between elite vulnerability researchers and…
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Eugenio Benincasa
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Sichuan Silence Information Technology and Guan Tianfeng: Your Criminal Our Hero
Even before DeepSeek's debut sparked pride among Chinese netizens, US sanctions on Sichuan Silence developer Guan Tianfeng triggered online vows to…
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Natto Team

January 2025

December 2024

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Bluesky Should Outsmart China's Public Opinion Monitoring Tools to Safeguard Public Discourse
The Chinese government has leveraged public opinion analysis systems to target U.S. social media platforms to tamper with public discourse in the past…
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Eugenio Benincasa
Sichuan Silence Information Technology: Great Sounds are Often Inaudible
Formerly very public, Sichuan Silence has gone quiet since 2020; but as part of a circle of Chengdu-based jack-of-all-trades infosec companies, it…
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Natto Team

November 2024

October 2024

Ransom-War in Real Time, Final Case Study: Tumultuous 2021
What do Russia's low-trust political culture and Putin's "zero-sum sovereignty" have to do with Colonial Pipeline?
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Natto Team
It's Not Magic: Making Your Choice is Powerful
Just as authoritarian governments are not monolithic, politics in democratic societies should be a common effort; please vote!
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The Red Dragon Searches for Pearls Through Quantum Tunneling – But You’ve Got the Wrong Paper
A September paper, soon hushed up, shows Chinese researchers may have discovered a class of quantum-annealing algorithm capable of attacking…
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Natto Team
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