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Silicon Valley Human Rights Conference

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Organized by the nonprofit group Access and sponsored by Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Skype, Mozilla and other major tech companies, the conference brought together business leaders, policy makers and online activists, especially from the Arabic-speaking world. We need the persistence of human rights groups to secure accountability for violators.

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New Guide: How To Engage Your Supporters with Social Listening

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

United to End Genocide (UEG), a group with only four staff members, was paying attention to the conflict in Yemen last year. Both their capacity as a group and the lack of a clear advocacy solution regarding the conflict left them in question as to WHEN to run advocacy campaign, so they listened.

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National Security Council adds Gmail to its list of bad decisions

Engadget

Unless you are using GPG, email is not end-to-end encrypted, and the contents of a message can be intercepted and read at many points, including on Googles email servers," Eva Galperin, director of cybersecurity at the Electronic Frontier Foundation told the Post.

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As Top Officials Were Messaging a Group Text About Bomb Plans, Their Passwords Were Leaked Online

Futurism

We're on week two of the fallout from the Signal group chat scandal and apparently, there's a lot more where that came from. That same address was contained in at least ten leaked data caches that also included a partial telephone number purportedly linked to a WhatsApp and Signal account for the director of national intelligence.

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Trump National Security Adviser Accidentally Sent Plans for a Bombing Campaign to a Random Journalist

Futurism

The editor-in-chief of The Atlantic was accidentally added to a group text message between key national security advisers as they discussed an upcoming offensive strike in Yemen and nobody seemed to know he was there until after the bombs went off. A few days later, the Houthi group chat was created.

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The Trump administration accidentally texted military plans to a journalist. The White House says its fine.

Mashable Tech

The Trump administration accidentally texted an Atlantic journalist its plans to bomb Yemen last week. On Monday, The Atlantic 's editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg reported that he had been inadvertently added to a Signal group chat with several apparent U.S. airstrikes on Houthi targets in Yemen took place on Saturday.

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U.S. security officials passwords found online, including people in Signal chat

Mashable Tech

officials' private contact details exposed on the internet, specifically information belonging to Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth , and national security advisor Michael Waltz. officials' group chat were linked to private phone numbers. How did reporters find U.S. officials' passwords?

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