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Note: these are my personal thoughts about a collective work over several years that continues without me, so it only represents my subjective views and not Echap or other Echap members’ view or opinions.

What happened in the world The US government has published a new National Security Strategy that espouses the racist great replacement theory and supports European far-right parties.

There is a lot going on these days, so here are my notes for both weeks 48 & 49.

What happened in the world Shamefully, Trump received Saudi Arabia’s Mohammed bin Salman at the White House.

What happened in the world Oxfam has published a piece about the awful consequences of the cut of US Aid.

What happened in the world The big news of the week is the election of Zohran Mamdani as Mayor of New York City.

So much is happening these days, the world is burning and tech companies are throwing oil on it, which means that these weekly notes are getting longer and longer.

What happened in the world Another week and the ceasefire in Gaza seems to hold, but in the meantime, the Israeli parliament pushed a law to annex the West Bank while violence by settlers against Palestinians is increasing.

What happened in the world For now, the ceasefire in Gaza seems to hold even with multiple deadly strikes by IDF.

Another week in the world and we are finally seeing a ceasefire in Gaza!

Second week writing weekly notes, I find interesting to anticipate these notes as I see myself reflecting more on what is newsworthy among my readings during the week.

Here we are, 10 months after I mentioned wanting to write weekly notes, I am finally adding that section to my website.

I recently attended an interesting talk about the challenge of identifying the timestamp of social media publications and this made me look more in depth at LinkedIn timestamps.

2025 is here and I have to acknowledge that this blog has been a bit abandoned lately.

In November 2021, I did some testing to see how many US media were blocking European visitors to avoid complying with GDPR.

January 2023, and once again the question of limiting access to porn websites for people under the legal majority age is back in the media.

I have been working and studying technology for over 10 years now, and the one thing I really love is discovering weird technical quirks you can find on Internet, and what they tell us about society.

Stalkerwares are malware used in abusive relationships to spy on someone’s partner.

I am not sure what happened this year but it seems that Cobalt Strike is now the most used malware around the world, from APT41 to APT32, even the last SolarWinds supply chain attack involved Cobalt Strike.

I am republishing here the guide on using passive DNS and Whois data in investigation that I published earlier this year on the Amnesty Citizen Evidence Lab website.

A few years ago, I wrote about Flexispy after the company got hacked and some data was released.

Shellcodes are an interesting piece of software because they have to run with unusual constraints.

TL;DR New trends in targeted attacks against civil society in 2019 : More attacks against smartphones, some attacks are using 0-days and we don’t know how to be effectively protected against them, but many attacks are using exploits against fixed bugs in…

I have been doing a lot of Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) lately, so to celebrate 2019, I decided to summarize a lot of tips and tricks I have learned in this guide.

TL;DR Harpoon is a tool to automate threat intelligence and open source intelligence tasks.

Analyzing PE files is a basic task in reverse engineering in order to understand their structure, look for anything interesting before going more in depth into the reverse engineering in itself.

Last week, Google has added a new set of security features in Gmail called “Advanced Protection”, specifically for high-risk users.

Introduction: I started this blog post to explain the context of FlexiSpy leaks and show some information I have found during my analysis.

There are now more and more privacy abuse everywhere, so even though we feel it, it’s often hard to understand the daily privacy demolition.

Olà, Some times ago, I have installed honeypot services on one of my servers, in order to see what happens in the real outside world.

Plop, I have been reading many articles about Machine Learning recently, and it seems to be the new hype technology so I wanted to play a bit with these algorithms to better understand the principles behind it.

Hi there!

This page gathers some useful guides and resources on digital security.

Here is a list of references regarding security topics and hacktivism: Political Organizations Here are several awesome organization regarding online freedom: EFF : The Electronic Frontier Foundation fights for digital freedom in many different ways (legal

Here are some personal projects I have been working on: Drawing by Matt Dixon Tools I am one of the developer and maintainer of the MVT Toolkit that allows to forensically analyze smartphones.

You can contact me securely in the following ways: Drawing by Matt Dixon By email: you can contact me at etienne AT maynier DOT eu, if possible using this public GPG key (Fingerprint 6861 626E B4A8 74F5 D794 ED0C 5FC6 A564 4D8A E276) or a protonmail accou…

I am Etienne “tek” Maynier, an activist, security analyst and researcher.