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Kentfield Hospital is a critical care hospital in California. They appear to have been the victim of a cyberattack by World Leaks, who claim to use an exfiltration-extortion model.

The hospital has not responded to an inquiry sent to it over the weekend, so they have neither confirmed nor denied any attack at this point, but I was able to preview the data tranche and reported on it all here:

databreaches.net/2025/07/05/ke

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@OhMyGod Remember: ANY "#KYC" in terms of #Messenger| #Apps IS the #IllicitActivity!

Regardless if @matrix or @signalapp , the sheer request, demand or coercion onto #PII like a #PhoneNumber or #eMail-Address is bad.

Personally, I'll recommend to switch to some real #E2EE with good #SelfHosting options like @delta / #deltaChat [which uses #PGP/MIME) or @monocles / #monoclesChat (which is based upon #XMPP+#OMEMO and who do host their own servers which are user-financed and can be paid for 100% anonymously.

@bfdi @kuketzblog @netzpolitik_feed @ccc @heiseonline

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@artfulmodder last time I checked @signalapp still demanded #PII in.the form of a #PhoneNumber, still peddled the #MobileCoin #Shitcoin #Scam and didn't move out of the #Cyberfacist #USA despite #CloudAct being nothing new!

  • Not to mention #Signal is both able and willing to discriminate against users based off said PII. Just because they do it for "#Sanctions #Compliance" diesn't mean they ain't gonna change that nor that @Mer__edith (or anyone else at Signal) could be bribed or threatened to do so.

They are #centralized #SingleVendor & #SingleProvider and are thus a #SinglePointOfFailure per design!

IMHO "memory tagging" is the least of Signal's problems. To me they stench "#ControlledOpposition" just as hard as #ANØM and incompetence as hard as #EncroChat!

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@MrGR
Das Ganze ist etwas komplexer und vielfältiger als "wenn man Google nicht will, sollte man [Google Apps] also nicht nutzen". Informiere dich mal, wie das Sandboxing in #GrapheneOS und #Google Play sowie #AndroidAuto im Allgemeinen funktionieren.
#OsmAnd braucht keinen Internetzugriff, sobald die Karten geladen sind, der Router ist eingebaut. Android Auto funktioniert offline und ohne #PII. Wenn du #Android Auto via Kabel machst, musst du dem Ding nicht mal WLAN oder BT Berechtigung geben.