NetAskari

全息档案系统: A holistic data storage and analysis system for individuals. We are trying to track China's ability of using big-data to surveil and remote observe citizens through abandoned dashboards of demo projects, that might give outsiders an insight into this field that is often not well documented. 1/6

if all GPUs can do is deliver soy sauce and CT scans why do the PLA and Pentagon both want billions of dollars of them

@planedrop It is a bad idea: x.com/NetAskari/stat…

Your firewall should not be doing TLS break and inspect and I'll die on this hill. IDS/IPS is great but introducing a MitM to do DPI on packets is a terrible idea. If you're going to do it, please just do it with your EDR.

Every year, millions of phones are stolen. A bustling underground ecosystem is providing criminals with the tools to unlock iPhones—and wage phishing attacks against their contacts to access bank accounts and more. wired.com/story/your-iph…

We should note that there is a slight mistake in this post . We just threw Skynet and Xueliang ( 天网 and 雪亮 ) together. Although in our opinion 'Skynet', being the older video surveillance project, has been slowly becoming a subset of 'Xueliang which has morphed into a bigger program from its 2015 inception, they are ultimately not the same in terminology. Thanks for @doodlehuang for pointing that out.

Yes and no. Sharp Eyes is actually by now considered the unofficial "successor" of Skynet, which exists since around 2005 as far as I know. Sharp Eye's has been morphing over the years far beyond the "pure residential" surveillance and the rural aspect and seems to have de facto integrated Skynet ( the video surveillance program ). But I do agree, putting it down as '"Skynet Project" (雪亮工程) ' is not correct.

@NetAskari 雪亮工程 (Sharp Eyes Project) is NOT 天网工程 (Skynet Project). They share similar goals but the former is more focused on residential area (e.g. 小区) monitoring.

Interesting stuff from the wayside: Qi Anxin, the Chinese cyber security company, is providing firewall systems for the "Skynet Project" (雪亮工程) in China. The NSG series is an industrial scale firewall solution for large traffic regulation, something that is perfect for the mass surveillance system that 雪亮工程 is slowly morphing into. 1/4

Additional note: In 2022 the district that is mentioned in the above TLS certificate has issues a tender call for the expansion and procurement of infrastructure for Skynet: developer.cloud.tencent.com/article/2047098

As expected most of the DPI capabilities seem to focus on Chinese internal protocols used by QQ, heavy focus of user traceability and Anti-NAT to enforce "one account, one device" policies. What is also interesting is a built in "Honeypot" functionality to redirect outside attacks to "fake environment" for monitoring. 4/4

@blahmoah @lauriewired Full global language pack installs, I'd say !

@NetAskari @lauriewired So If I install Russian, Chinese, (and English is the default), I should be rather safe? Maybe throw in German and French just in case...oh and some other Eastern European language packs...

Preach @lauriewired !!!

@mwfowlie To be honest, I think most nation actors just buy the stuff via shell companies. I doubt there is a lot of due diligence as long as you are willing to put a lot of cash on the table. The data brokers usually sell to anyone who is willing to pay as far as I have heard.

I think it’s shocking that these advertising firms are allowed to hire foreign nationals from adversarial countries, and give them full prod access. It’s an intelligence goldmine.

The use of AdTech by nation states to track targets or cluster of targets is something not very well explored we think. Thought the @EFF has been leading the way in the debate: eff.org/deeplinks/2026…

AdTech can be an incredibly powerful tool to track and identify targets online. Combining enough of this data, a Israeli firm already figured out how to identify StarLink terminals by using connected user's online behavior : msn.com/en-gb/news/oth…

It is interesting how little play the new EU's age verification / Digital ID story gets play in the European public discourse. You see reports here and there, but the overall topic seems to be barely noticed by a wider public it seems. Maybe the topic is just not imminent enough and things will heat up towards the end of 2026 when implementation is going to be more wide spread. But overall it shows, how hard it is to get "digital topics"into the mind-space of ordinary citizens. euronews.com/next/2026/04/3…

@UK_Daniel_Card I owned a few pair of this shoes and they held up for years...and I wore them a lot. Hope the quality is still good.

I know these aren’t going to win any style awards but not having hurting feet > hurting feet! 🦶

A rare non tech gadget!

I guess you could also hold the platforms accountable and make them pay up for their shortcomings in how they expose the population to their garbage. But instead we get some half arsed "age control" combined with a blanket restriction on VPN use. We are not against regulations by default. Clearly the internet is in a bad state and most people struggle with what they are exposed of on a daily basis. But this stuff below is clearly spun up by people who have very little knowledge of the usage or necessities of VPNs. I am not even seeing a massive conspiracy here, it is just incompetence and bumbling political operatives who love to zero in on a "buzzword issue" and then come up with the most ham fisted solution.

This is such a poor take on VPN usage, it's shocking. Incredibly disappointing that the EU, and who ever is advising such research service, is taking this stance.

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