Trying something new, with a weekly-ish list of links
1) OAPs are radicalised too
the radicalisation of middle-aged and elderly people remains largely overlooked despite their active involvement in nearly all extremist movements. This Insight advocates for a more nuanced understanding of extremism and ageing, emphasising the need for radicalisation prevention strategies geared towards those born as Digital Immigrants, such as Baby Boomers and Generation X. These generations did not grow up in a digitised world, and their education largely did not include critical media studies. Among others, this factor makes them prone to misinformation consumption online. [This article looks..] at the example of the German Reich Citizens Movement, which has a very specific age structure and is characterised by the relatively late radicalisation of its adherents. The movement, which predates the digital age, now primarily relies on the internet for communication, spreading its ideology, and mobilising action against the state and governmental authorities
Which should not be a surprise to anyone who looked at the Brexit movement or the supporters of Reform in the UK. Also, spoiler alert, it’s pro-Putin, and similar in many ways to the Sovereign Citizens and related movements.
I’ll gloss over the “digital native/digital immigrant” thing. It’s mostly not true (e.g. see the paper Do Learners Really Know Best? Urban Legends in Education or File not found from The Verge)
But while the current anti-vax/wellness/neo-nazi/whatever trends on TikTok pretty much disprove any idea that the youngs are immune to radicalisation, as the article notes, older people do re-post misinformation at higher rates. So it’s no so surprising that people are becoming radicalised more at a later age, when historically we might have expected them to become less radical over time
2) Supply Chain Attacks from North Korea
David Rosenthal on a successful attack against a crypto cold wallet, almost certainly carried out by North Korea. Radiant is a DAO. To keep funds safe they had a multi-sig cold wallet, and DPRK still stole $50m
Each transaction was simulated for accuracy on Tenderly and individually reviewed by multiple developers at each signature stage. Front-end checks in both Tenderly and Safe showed no anomalies during these reviews. To underscore the significance of this point, the compromise was completely undetectable during the manual review of the Gnosis Safe UI and Tenderly simulation stages of the routine transaction
dyor and be your own bank indeed.