Alex Martin

UK Editor: @TheRecord_Media | Fellowship alumnus: @VirtualRoutes | @SkyNews | Agent: @NorthbankTalent

[Alex Martin @AlexMartin]

@shashj You don't deserve that abuse Shashank. I hope you don't let that small, mean, weak shouting get you down.

[Arndt Freytag von Loringhoven @FreytagArndt]

A truly wise man

[Alex Martin @AlexMartin]

A really charming, admirable man.

https://t.co/OmmYBpNY31

[Alex Martin @AlexMartin]

@martha__dark Report is by @CommonsSITC, a parliamentary committee, rather than @SciTechgovuk, the government department. It's also a very poor report, called on too few witnesses, lacks technical and economic grounding its recommendations about public sector use of technology.

[Alex Martin @AlexMartin]

@DominicWaghorn Don't knock it until you've tried it, Dom!

[Alex Martin @AlexMartin]

@TimJ_B Not hard to image the alternative view...

“We gave them GPS for free, they didn’t even pay for it, they just plucked our signals from space. From right out of the air. Crooked Bill Clinton switched off Selective Availability. He could have made a lot of money. Such a waste.”

[Alex Martin @AlexMartin]

“Every GPS satellite is a numbers station. The receivers were always listening. We just had not been.”

This is a fascinating bit of writing and research, and also a great reminder that GPS is ultimately a US military asset made available to the world as a public good.

[Steven Murdoch @sjmurdoch]

For 19 years, GPS satellites have secretly broadcast a “numbers station” in their public signals. We decoded 12M messages: a 2011 flash where 31 of 32 satellites flipped in hours, “ghost” substrings repeating years apart, and a “TEXT” prefix spreading now. https://t.co/xz3svmqiDa

[Alex Martin @AlexMartin]

@TimJ_B Tbh, even if it serves U.S. strategic interests, it's definitely been an enormous public good that we probably ought to applaud - fom KAL 007 through to financial transactions, power and telecoms infrastructure, etc. - even if we can't forget those interests, as the paper shows.

[Steven Murdoch @sjmurdoch]

For 19 years, GPS satellites have secretly broadcast a “numbers station” in their public signals. We decoded 12M messages: a 2011 flash where 31 of 32 satellites flipped in hours, “ghost” substrings repeating years apart, and a “TEXT” prefix spreading now. https://t.co/xz3svmqiDa

[Alex Martin @AlexMartin]

@John_ForemanCBE Is it the general tone or the lack of substance that bothers you? What would you do or say differently? I'm told UKIC can't disclose everything, doing so would provide an advantage to Russia. I'm not sure how the balance is struck, but I doubt it's Healey weighing the decision.

[Alex Martin @AlexMartin]

@ChaoticEclipse0 Is this court listing public?

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas

[Alex Martin @AlexMartin]

Please don't dunk on how dumb the idea is the UK could grow all of the foods we eat. Dunk on the even dumber national security framing. Our domestic wheat yields dropped by almost half due to the wet winter of 23/24 (https://t.co/SLentNzMsf). Imports are why you don't know this.

[ClarksonsFarm @ClarksonsFarm1]

National food security should be a top priority!🙌🏼

[Alex Martin @AlexMartin]

@thegrugq UK National Cyber Force: https://t.co/5kv7were8Q

“From operational experience, we find that we can often achieve the greatest cognitive effect by affecting the functionality and effectiveness of an adversary’s systems over a period of time...”

[Alex Martin @AlexMartin]

ICYMI: Last year @DanJarvisMBE pledged the government would introduce a statutory defense protecting cybersecurity researchers from the extremely broad prohibitions of the Computer Misuse Act.

Researchers say the plans, which we revealed here, don't do much protecting at all ⤵️

[Alicia Kearns MP @aliciakearns]

This gang lured and gang-raped at knifepoint a young girl while they filmed it laughing.

I will refer their sentences as unduly lenient - let’s see if this time the Government again says the rapists are too immature to receive stronger sentences.

Who are these disgraceful judges?

Judge Nicholas Rowland praised the boys for their conduct during the trial. “I think of you as very young and none of you have been in any big trouble before”

[Alex Martin @AlexMartin]

ICYMI: Last year @DanJarvisMBE pledged the government would introduce a statutory defense protecting cybersecurity researchers from the extremely broad prohibitions of the Computer Misuse Act.

Researchers say the plans, which we revealed here, don't do much protecting at all ⤵️

[Alex Martin @AlexMartin]

Scoop: We can reveal the details of the UK's planned Computer Misuse Act reform:

▶️Statutory defence will only cover scanning internet-facing systems
▶️Activity must stop once vuln is found
▶️Only available to UK nationals accredited by @UKCyberCouncil... https://t.co/omZRhb2PiK

[Alex Martin @AlexMartin]

Scoop: We can reveal the details of the UK's planned Computer Misuse Act reform:

▶️Statutory defence will only cover scanning internet-facing systems
▶️Activity must stop once vuln is found
▶️Only available to UK nationals accredited by @UKCyberCouncil... https://t.co/omZRhb2PiK

[Huib Modderkolk @huibmodderkolk]

‘An attack exploiting a previously unknown vulnerability in Huawei enterprise router software caused a nationwide telecoms outage in Luxembourg last year.’

https://t.co/vuBRUAXzbP

[Alex Martin @AlexMartin]

Shame to see this non-answer from Kanishka Narayan. The delays in bringing forward the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill (which stretch back to when Sir Oliver was in government) raise many questions about whether the CSRB is fit for the kinds of vuln disclosures coming our way.

[Oliver Dowden @OliverDowden]

Raising in Parliament the impact of frontier AI models, such as Mythos, on national security.