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2mo ago

A woman’s hypothermia death in Pittsburgh after her release from ICE custody is ruled a homicide
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CubitOom @infosec.pub 2mo ago
Daphy Michel, 31, died March 2. She was found at a bus shelter in Pittsburgh. The Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office found her cause of death to be hypothermia and ruled the manner a homicide, “indicating the death was caused by the actions of another individual” and should not be interpreted as a declaration of criminal guilt, the office said in a statement. The office released its findings Friday.
Michel was a native of Haiti who was seeking asylum in the U.S. after arriving at the southern border in 2022, said Joseph Patrick Murphy, her family’s attorney. She was granted humanitarian parole based on urgent humanitarian need, but she did not live to see a hearing scheduled for two weeks after she died, he said.
The medical examiner’s office said Michel was a vulnerable adult “suffering from untreated severe mental health issues and a significant language barrier” at the time of her release on Feb. 27, the office said.

2mo ago

When you have a day off

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CubitOom @infosec.pub 2mo ago

Work on a hobby at home

2mo ago

It's possible that the heat on Proton is a smear campaign.

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CubitOom @infosec.pub 2mo ago

Check out mullvad as an example of a company gathering zero data on customers and legally providing law enforcement with zero data.

Re-read my above comment to see the most recent controversy.

2mo ago

It's possible that the heat on Proton is a smear campaign.

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If a company has no data on its customers then they can be in full compliance with law enforcement and still share nothing.

Again, the choice is your to ignore the issues and keep using it.

2mo ago

It's possible that the heat on Proton is a smear campaign.

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Company "accidentally" gave money to the far-right French YouTuber Vincent Lapierre.

They seem to keep being pro far right and then when they are called out on it, they back track.

But from a purely security standpoint, proton is not a good product either, if court documents and FBI collaboration are any indication.

2mo ago

Trump asking Congress for symbolic expunging of his two impeachments

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CubitOom @infosec.pub 2mo ago

How about all of his convicted felonies?

2mo ago

‘He was Born a Very Special Baby’: GOP Congressman Mocked for Cultlike Trump Praise

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2mo ago

25 Babies and Toddlers Are in ICE Custody on an Average Day

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CubitOom @infosec.pub 2mo ago

"Worst of the worst."

2mo ago

Pokémon Go data trained AI that could assist military drones in war zones

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CubitOom @infosec.pub 2mo ago

Pikachu used war crime!

2mo ago

Pokémon Go data trained AI that could assist military drones in war zones

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CubitOom @infosec.pub 2mo ago

Niantic Spatial – a spin-off company from Niantic – announced its partnership with Vantor, a company that specialises in spatial detection software for drones, including those used by some militaries, in December.
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Vantor announced in February a deal with the US Army of up to US$217m for training software.

If we don't read and understand EULAs, Terms of Service, and Privacy Policies, we might help the goverment kill people.

it's somehow legal to make a 20 page contract for a digital service or game that states it can be updated at anytime somewhere in it and because you are using it you agree to the terms and opt-in to any updated terms.

There is no government watchdog to protect consumers from this and if there were it only takes one rogue unconstitutional action for it to be dismantled and probably never get challenged in the legal system. The closest we have are advocacy groups like the EFF and they depend on people reading, using critical thinking, and giving a fuck.

When the devs collaborate with the government and military or spread propaganda, games are political, all aspect of life is. I think it always was. playing a game can now mean children get bombed. I think the sooner we come to these realizations the better.

Data can be retained and used retroactively in anyway the corporations that owns the data seem fit. That apparently means also selling that data to military contractors or using it to train models used for the military.

Did anyone guess that a pokemon game could be used to kill? I wonder how much blood money nintendo/pokemon company made off this?

This is not enshittification, but weaponization, and we all need to pay attention because this will not be the last time it happens.

2mo ago

Teardown Confirms the Trump Phone Is a Gold-Painted HTC U24 Pro

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CubitOom @infosec.pub 2mo ago

(Starts shanking gold spray can)

2mo ago

Cheap Iranian drone downed $25 million US Army helicopter—maybe by chance

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CubitOom @infosec.pub 2mo ago

We are in another middle east quagmire, harming civilians, and committing war crimes under the orders of a Republican child rapist felon -- maybe by chance

2mo ago

It's possible that the heat on Proton is a smear campaign.

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CubitOom @infosec.pub 2mo ago

There are plenty of other options which haven't actively supported the American Regime or white supremacists.

You can either switch to one of those and have peace of mind with the biggest downside of not haveing a suite of apps in one location (which is probably bad from a privacy perspective anyway). Or you can deny and ignore the issues that continue to come.

3mo ago

ICE has detained over 500 babies and toddlers under Trump

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CubitOom @infosec.pub 3mo ago

In the first years after birth, the human brain develops at a remarkable pace. Every second, more than a million new neural connections spring into being, shaping a person’s physical and emotional health for the rest of their life.
Since the Trump administration entered the White House last year, at least 500 babies and toddlers have spent some of that pivotal time in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
ICE has dramatically increased detentions of children aged 3 and under, holding 25 of them in custody on an average day between January 2025 and March of this year, according to a new analysis by The Marshall Project and MS NOW of records obtained by the Deportation Data Project, a group of academics and lawyers who collect and share federal immigration data. That number is 10 times higher than it was in the previous 12 months under former President Joe Biden. Back then, on an average day, fewer than three babies and toddlers were held at facilities across the country.
Parents in ICE detention have complained of substandard conditions that frequently left their young children sick, isolated and regressing in their physical and intellectual development.
ICE did not respond to a request for comment about the increase in detained young children. But in an emailed statement, an agency spokesperson said families with children receive appropriate food, water and medical care. In a separate statement, CoreCivic — the private company that operates the primary ICE facility used to detain families — echoed that its facilities were safe for infants and toddlers.
Marsha Griffin, a pediatrics professor and co-founder of the executive committee of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ Council on Immigrant Child and Family Health, called the period of infancy and toddlerhood “probably the most harmful time of their lives to have them in detention.”
“Our immigration system is breaking children,” she said.

Stores of a few of the children can be found within the article.

3mo ago

Evidence Destroyed or Lost in Death of ICE Detainee That Was Ruled a Homicide

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CubitOom @infosec.pub 3mo ago

A Government Accountability Office (GAO) audit released today said evidence was destroyed or went missing regarding the death of Geraldo Lunas Campos, a federal immigration detainee whose death a medical examiner later ruled a homicide by asphyxiation.
The GAO reported that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) filed a "discrepancy report" in February noting that the private contractor that previously operated the Camp East Montana detention facility in Texas had failed to provide the agency with use-of-force and death reports regarding a January death of a detainee by use of force. The GAO report does not name the detainee, but the details match Lunas Campos, who died on January 3 after an altercation with guards at the camp.
"In addition, evidence associated with the incident was missing or destroyed," the GAO report said.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) initially claimed that Lunas Campos had attempted to commit suicide and died during a struggle in which "guards were trying to save him." However, the El Paso Medical Examiner's Office ruled his death a homicide by asphyxiation. Multiple detainee witnesses told news outlets that guards choked Lunas Campos to death after he refused to stop asking for his medication.
"The officers entered, grabbed him," one detainee told Zeteo, "and the last thing we could hear him say was: 'They are choking me, they are choking me.'"

3mo ago

New plans to stop children taking, sharing or viewing nude images

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CubitOom @infosec.pub 3mo ago

How about arresting pedophiles starting with those connected to Epstein?

3mo ago

The Delaney Hall Strike Is Exposing a Massive Thirteenth Amendment Crisis

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The Thirteenth Amendment prohibits slavery, except “as a punishment for crime.” But people in immigration detention haven’t been convicted of anything—and are still being forced to work for nothing.
For the past several weeks, hundreds of detainees at Delaney Hall, an immigration detention center in Newark, New Jersey, have been on a labor and hunger strike. Participants in the strike are refusing to perform their work assignments or eat meals in protest of what they describe, in a series of handwritten letters smuggled out of the facility, as “unlawful and forced detention” and “inhumane treatment” that violates their constitutional rights. Among the myriad “injustices and irregularities” named in the letters are rotten food riddled with worms; persistent “unresolved issues” with bathrooms in “terrible and inhumane” condition; and detainees being forced to work for practically pennies or, more often, for no pay at all.
Delaney Hall was the first immigration detention center to open during President Donald Trump’s second term in office. And like almost all immigration detention facilities, Delaney is owned and operated by a private prison corporation. GEO Group, a company valued at approximately $3.3 billion, signed a 15-year contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement in February 2025, providing ICE with the facility and “support services” like security, maintenance, and food services, in exchange for over $60 million annually.
But it is the detainees—not GEO Group—who actually do that work.
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Forcing immigrant detainees to work for their captors isn’t just exploitative. It’s unconstitutional. The Thirteenth Amendment explicitly prohibits slavery and indentured servitude, except “as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted.” But immigration detention is a form of civil confinement. People held in detention centers are simply waiting—behind bars—for the resolution of their immigration cases. This is punitive in practice, but not in law, as they are incarcerated, but not in prison. Only 12 percent of the people who have been detained at Delaney Hall since it opened have ever been convicted of anything.
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The strike at Delaney Hall is not an isolated incident. In recent weeks, hundreds of other immigration detainees across the country have participated in similar strikes. But Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin told reporters last week that “only a handful” of detainees at Delaney were refusing to eat, and it was because they wanted “ethnic” food.
In their letters, the migrants write that GEO Group is failing to “meet the basic conditions necessary to protect our health and our lives.” And as one recently-released Delaney detainee quipped, in an interview with The Guardian last week, “If we are going to be detained for months so this company can profit, they should at least provide a better service.”
Since reentering the White House, Trump has waged an aggressive campaign to detain and deport people of color—building more detention infrastructure, arresting more people, and releasing fewer. And as the immigration detention population grows, so too does the nation’s Thirteenth Amendment crisis.

3mo ago

Georgian [immigrant] is 50[+] person to die in ICE detention during immigration crackdown

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CubitOom @infosec.pub 3mo ago

A Georgian immigrant who officials said died last week in Immigrant and Customs Enforcement custody is the 50th person to die in ICE detention during the second Trump administration.
Mamuka Artmeladze, 43, died on June 4 at the Winn Correctional Center in Louisiana, according to an agency notification sent to lawmakers.

3mo ago

'There Must Be Accountability,' Says Jayapal in Response to 50+ ICE Detainee Deaths

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"Yesterday, I was notified of the 50th death in ICE custody since Trump returned to office," Jayapal (D-Wash.)—the ranking member of the House Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement—said on social media. "This is unprecedented and further proof that ICE and their private, for-profit prison contractors should not be sent another cent of taxpayer dollars. There must be accountability."
According to ICE's public database, 51 people have died while detained by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agency during Trump's second term, including two people who were killed in a sniper attack on an ICE administrative and processing center in Dallas. At least 10 of the deaths were men who killed themselves, according to an Associated Press investigation published late last month.
ICE recently announced it would stop reporting the deaths of people recently released from ICE detention. The reporting policy, enacted in 2021, was meant to assure accountability and prevent the agency from offloading severely ill detainees.
Many of the deaths were preventable, say experts who point to systemic understaffing and DHS policy choices that weaken detainee care and employee oversight.
Jayapal's call comes as ICE detainees across the nation are resisting abuse in concentration centers across the nation, through hunger strikes and other civil disobedience, as well as via lawsuits.
Hundreds of detainees at Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey—which is operated by prison profiteer GEO Group—are participating in a hunger and labor strike over unsanitary conditions, inedible food, poor medical care, and prolonged detention, while federal agents have attacked people outside the facility including protesters and a sitting US senator.
Similar strikes and other acts of resistance are either ongoing or recently occurred at Adelanto Processing Center and its Desert View Annex in California, North Lake Processing Center in Michigan, Moshannon Valley Processing Center in Pennsylvania—all run by GEO Group—and other lockups. Detainees who participate in hunger strikes or speak to reporters say they have been placed in solitary confinement and subjected to other retaliation.
Despite—some critics say because of—reports of widespread abuses, DHS recently shut down its Office of the Immigration Detention Ombudsman (OIDO), which was created by an act of Congress signed into law during Trump's first term amid rampant systemic abuse of migrants including detainee deaths, family separation, and severe overcrowding. OIDO had the power to receive detainee complaints, investigate alleged abuse or misconduct, inspect detention facilities, and report systemic problems to DHS leaders and Congress.

3mo ago

Senate OKs $70B immigration bill after rejecting efforts to permanently ban Trump’s settlement fund

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CubitOom @infosec.pub 3mo ago

Senators voted 52-47 to pass the $70 billion legislation to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol for the next three years, through the end of Trump’s term, after Democrats blocked the money for months. The bill will now head to the House, which is expected to take it up next week.
The final vote came just before 5 a.m., after Republicans narrowly defeated multiple attempts by members of both parties to add language to the bill that would permanently ban Trump’s settlement fund for allies who believe they’ve been politically persecuted.