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Best Infosec-Related Long Reads: Holiday Wrap-Up Edition

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Best Infosec-Related Long Reads: Holiday Wrap-Up Edition

The man behind the hacked voting machine conspiracy theory, How private Roomba screenshots got on Facebook, Israel's new dystopian cyber firm, Roblox’s criminal underworld, Oz's scary data breaches

Cynthia Brumfield
Jan 7
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Best Infosec-Related Long Reads: Holiday Wrap-Up Edition

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Metacurity is pleased to offer our free and paid subscribers this weekly digest of long-form infosec pieces and related articles that we couldn’t properly fit into our daily crush of news. Tell us what you think, and feel free to share your favorite long-reads via email at info@metacurity.com. We’ll gladly credit you with a hat tip. Happy reading!

The man behind Trump World’s myth of rigged voting machines

Reuters’ Aram Roston and Peter Eisler offer a profile of Dennis Montgomery, a computer programmer and self-described former contractor for the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), who provided the basis for the toxic theory that shadowy and malicious forces hacked into voting machines to rob Donald Trump of his presidential victory in 2020. Montgomery claims that he had built a supercomputer called the Hammer years ago as a U.S. government surveillance tool, along with software called Scorecard that could be used to manipulate election results.

Montgomery, 69, last year sold a trov…

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