Best Infosec-Related Long Reads for the Weeks of 11/20/23 and 11/27/23

Ukraine battles Russia in electromagnetic warfare, Apple's iPhone hacking lab in Paris, No federal law on deepfake porn, X fails on Hamas war misinformation, Canadian gov't extracts data from phones

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The Invisible War in Ukraine Being Fought Over Radio Waves

The New York Times’s Paul Mozur and Aaron Krolik reveal how a battle is raging in the invisible realm of electromagnetic waves in Ukraine, with Ukraine stepping up its efforts to battle Russian superiority in electromagnetic warfare.

To combat Russia’s century of Soviet know-how in electronic attack and defense, Ukraine has turned to a start-up approach associated with Silicon Valley. The idea is to help the country’s tech workers quickly turn out electronic warfare products, test them and then send them to the battlefield.

This summer, Ukraine’s government hosted a hackathon for firms to work…