Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai✓

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Followers

8.7K

Account age

9 yrs

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📊 Post engagement

Avg engagement / post

0.3%

Engagement vs followers

Apr 2017

On Mastodon since

🔥 Top post: NEW: I delved into the mystery of Phineas Fisher, probably the m · 49 likes + reposts

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence

6.3 / week

Posts several times a week.

Content mix

Mostly text

Recent: 12 text · 0 image · 0 video.

Follower / following

4.9×

Follows 1.8K back. A more reciprocal / networked account.

Recent posts

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🔥 Top post NEW: I delved into the mystery of Phineas Fisher, probably the most prolific and public hacker never to have gotten caught. This is what we know about the infamous hacktivist and their spectacular hacks against spyware makers FinFisher and Hacking Team. There will be even more i… ★ 49

NEW: Google says several hacking groups are targeting and breaking into financial and investment firms with an old-fashioned method: calling employees and tricking them into giving up their passwords. The victims reportedly include Apollo… ★ 7 NEW: Connor Moucka, 26-year-old Canadian, pleaded guilty to hacking more than 165 companies, most of them customers of cloud provider giant Snowflake, including AT&T and Ticketmaster. DOJ said Moucka made around $3 million from ransom paym… ★ 6 NEW: PSA: Apple's Private Relay, which is supposed to keep your IP address hidden from websites you visit using Safari, can leak your real IP address. The issues underlying this are not fixed. Researchers set up a site to test this. We use… ★ 41 NEW: Several hackers have been stealing $130 million — and counting — in Bitcoin from the owners of supposedly secure offline hardware wallets. The heists rely on a security flaw in the Coldcard wallet. By knowing how to make the keys, th… ★ 23 NEW: We spoke to hacking law experts to learn if OpenAI and Anthropic could be prosecuted for their AI agents’ hacks against Hugging Face, and three unnamed victims. The answers are complicated, as we are in “uncharted territory,” as one … ★ 26 NEW: After the UK government sent a secret legal request to access users’ encrypted iCloud data, Apple has reportedly filed a new legal challenge against it. This is the latest in a legal fight that started early last year. Critics see the… ★ 15 NEW: Since the advent of LLMs experts have warned that AI would usher in an era of countless bugs, putting pressure on defenders to keep up with hackers. We are starting to see hard data backing up that prediction. In just one month, Googl… ★ 38 NEW: OpenAI’s hack against Hugging Face was novel because it was fully autonomous and AI-powered, but the rogue agent acted mostly human-like. And Hugging Face could have done a better job at spotting and stopping the attack with better t… ★ 8 This is a great explainer of the OpenAI hack against Hugging Face, particularly of the report that the latter published earlier this week. If you had trouble parsing the highly technical report, this article can walk you through it. http… ★ 26 NEW: After Redditors and journalists found an untold number of Claude chats publicly available on Google, Anthropic blamed the users. The company told us that share links only appear in search results when they’ve been posted somewhere sea… ★ 12 NEW: I spoke to several offensive cybersecurity researchers, including zero-day developers, about how the guardrails imposed by OpenAI and Anthropic on their AI models are getting in the way of their work. Most complained that the guardrai… ★ 26

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infosec.exchange

A cybersecurity & infosec server — its members and audience skew toward that niche, so expect a community-aligned, engaged following.

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On Mastodon since

Apr 2017

An OG fediverse account from Mastodon's early years — a long, established presence.

💡 Facts

🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2017 — 9 years ago.

👁️Averages 23 views per post.

📤Posts about 6.3× per week.

🕵️ Fake follower check

Estimated

52/100

Fair Credibility score

76%

Mixed Real audience

Medium Fake-follower risk

High Data confidence

Est. 76% real, active audience · Medium fake-follower risk.
Low engagement (~0.3% of followers engage each post) — a sign of an inflated or inactive audience.
Verified account.
Established account (9+ years old).

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About

Real-time cyber historian of the late capitalist era @TechCrunch, writing about the intersection of hackers, human rights, and spies. Also writing a book about Hacking Team and the history of government spyware. Posts about infosec, surveillance by day. 🍕, ⚽️, 🎸, 🎮 by night.   ☎️ Signal: +1 917 257 1382  💻 Keybase/Telegram: @ lorenzofb  ✉️   Previously: VICE Motherboard, Mashable, WIRED's Danger Room.