Best Infosec-Related Long Reads for the Week, 11/11/23
Tokelau became the web's dark underworld, Oregon cops' surveillance apparatus lives on, Tool for small platforms to fight terrorism content, GOP fights to keep US in the dark, Inside fake Apple gear
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How a tiny Pacific Island became the global capital of cybercrime
In MIT Tech Review, Jacob Judah tells the story of how the tiny Pacific island of Tokelau, the last place on Earth to be connected to the telephone in 1997, and its domain .tk became the unwitting “host to the dark underworld by providing a never-ending supply of domain names that could be weaponized against internet users” after Aukusitino Vitale, the then-general manager of Teletok, the impoverished country’s sole telecom operator, struck a deal with con artist Joost Zuurbier.
It took until the late 2000s for Vitale to realize that something had gone bad…
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