#stateactors — Public Fediverse posts

“Speaking to the Australian National University’s (#ANU) “securing our future summit”, #KrissyBarrett (#AFP) says law enforcement (#LEO) agencies around the world are uncovering examples where “#StateActors have turned traditional organised #crime networks to #GreyZone offending”

#Extremism / #UnderWorld / #ideology <https://theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2026/mar/24/australia-politics-live-fuel-crisis-cost-of-living-petrol-diesel-rationing-question-time-anthony-albanese-angus-taylor-pauline-hanson-one-nation-ntwnfb?CMP=share_btn_url&page=with%3Ablock-69c21ecd8f0870f125bb2381#block-69c21ecd8f0870f125bb2381>

Yeah, the problem with #Government #surveillance is that some or later they are not the only state actor hitting the citizens.

Every "legitimate" backdoor is a "security through obscurity" attack surface.

#CriminalActivity #CybersecurityThreat #ForeignSpies #PotentialNationalSecurityRisk #MassivePhishingAttack #infosec #stateActors

https://www.wired.com/story/coruna-iphone-hacking-toolkit-us-government/

I have been thinking about #gemini #protocol lately and it's #TOFU model in particular. While I understand what they are going for, I think it's still really vurnelable against attacks from the #StateActors. Even if #HTTPS cannot penetrate the block, lack of #certificate alerts user to the tampering.
The system where each #server has something like a #webring of hashes certificates of other #websites and clients would check if site supplies real or fake certificates is interesting, but the system still need #bootstraping (Maybe with the help of something like #TOR or #I2P) and it still has risk of sites being #coerced into hosting #fraudulent certificates and then using them to act as #MITM.
Perhaps system of more reasonable compromises can exist, but I am not sure.