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Glenn Greenwald Charged with Cybercrimes in Brazil

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Re: Glenn Greenwald Charged with Cybercrimes in Brazil

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In case someone is wondering how they hacked Telegram. They used caller id spoofing and a telco vulnerability. 1. Change your phone ID and try to login on Telegram; 2. Telegram will send an SMS with an authentication number followed by a phone call to the actual mobile phone; 3. To avoid the message going through, spams the victim with many VoIP calls; 4. The Telegram call will be recorded on the missed call voice me…

I'm surprised that 2FA wasn't activated.

I'm not...Greenwald, while an incredibly brave journalist, and friend of consumer tech rights, struggled to use PGP keys with Snowden...

Re: Glenn Greenwald Charged with Cybercrimes in Brazil

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Oof. I don’t know why he would stay in Brazil while publishing stuff that embarrassed powerful interests in Brazil. You can do that shit in Canada, in Brazil you’re lucky to not get a bullet.

Surprised to see this comment downvoted. Journalists (and basically anyone against those in power) are killed routinely in Brazil. It's not even a big deal in these countries. [1] [1] - https://cpj.org/americas/brazil/

Doubt it's not a big deal - it's just not known the value of these people killed, and who is doing it, because people don't fucking read - ironically.

Same in US.

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Dude, Brazil wasn't an English colony. They don't even have juries , much less jury nullification .

Brazil has juries.

Whoops, my bad: https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judiciary_of_Brazil

But it doesn't sound like Greenwald will get a jury trial.

Thanks for the correction!

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In case someone is wondering how they hacked Telegram. They used caller id spoofing and a telco vulnerability. 1. Change your phone ID and try to login on Telegram; 2. Telegram will send an SMS with an authentication number followed by a phone call to the actual mobile phone; 3. To avoid the message going through, spams the victim with many VoIP calls; 4. The Telegram call will be recorded on the missed call voice me…

Does anyone know if Telegram will ever move away from relying on phone numbers for authentication?

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Actually, he didn't expose any criminal evidence. After all is said and done, nothing found in the conversations he [ilegally] acquired that demonstrates wrongdoing by the judge.

>nothing found in the conversations he [ilegally] acquired that demonstrates wrongdoing by the judge. "In the files, conversations between lead prosecutor Deltan Dallagnol and then-presiding Judge Sergio Moro reveal that Moro offered strategic advice to prosecutors and passed on tips for new avenues of investigation. With these actions, Moro grossly overstepped the ethical lines that define the role of a judge. In Br…

These conversations happened in the clear. It was well known and disclosed at the time of the investigations that this judge (and a few others) were exchanging information about the case with prosecutors and defenders.

Also, "tips for new avenues of investigation" may be ethically questionable (although it's hard to make the case for that), it's not crime at all. It would be crime if the judge was taking sides in the ruling, which that specific judge is not accused of.

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> a position he occupied just after releasing "dirt" on the government opponents to facilitate the presidential election That judge went after one of the largest corruption scandals of our age. There's no evidence he did so in order to acquire a political position: at the heyday of the prosecutions against the workers party, the current president (who made the judge one of his ministers) wasn't even widely known by t…

>It's hard to argue that Greenwald was exposing some sort of manipulation by the judicial system. It's not hard to argue at all - it's exactly what he did. The leaked texts make it clear that the prosecutor's office and the judge (Moro) had clear political motivations for taking down the front-running candidate in the last election and that they abused their powers to do so.

> The leaked texts make it clear that the prosecutor's office and the judge (Moro) had clear political motivations for taking down the front-running candidate in the last election and that they abused their powers to do so.

At the time the bulk of the investigations were happening, Lula wasn't even running for president, and the elections were quite far away (4-6 years), so you can't argue he was in the front-run of the election.

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> a position he occupied just after releasing "dirt" on the government opponents to facilitate the presidential election That judge went after one of the largest corruption scandals of our age. There's no evidence he did so in order to acquire a political position: at the heyday of the prosecutions against the workers party, the current president (who made the judge one of his ministers) wasn't even widely known by t…

Is attacking Grewnwald's character relevant here? Anyways, if it is, Greenwald has been one of the most outspoken critics of many aspects of the Russiagate accusations against Trump(1); and in consideration of your aforementioned "liberal agenda" of his, it hardly makes any sense at all to label him on this hand a Trump defender--as he has been accused of--and on the other a 'liberal commie.' 1- https://theintercept.…

I'm not attacking "Greenwald's character". I just observe that he uses his role of a journalist to push particularly hard for a leftist political agenda.

Greenwald has been criticizing Russiagate, but he's certainly not supporting Trump. He's very far from being a Trump defender if you've been following his work.

Re: Glenn Greenwald Charged with Cybercrimes in Brazil

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In case someone is wondering how they hacked Telegram. They used caller id spoofing and a telco vulnerability. 1. Change your phone ID and try to login on Telegram; 2. Telegram will send an SMS with an authentication number followed by a phone call to the actual mobile phone; 3. To avoid the message going through, spams the victim with many VoIP calls; 4. The Telegram call will be recorded on the missed call voice me…

I'm surprised that 2FA wasn't activated.

Isn't it possible he used it but the person he was speaking with didn't?

At least from a U.S. perspective, it seems more likely that law enforcement would try to get a court order to get into the hacker's conversations than a journalist's.

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>It's hard to argue that Greenwald was exposing some sort of manipulation by the judicial system. It's not hard to argue at all - it's exactly what he did. The leaked texts make it clear that the prosecutor's office and the judge (Moro) had clear political motivations for taking down the front-running candidate in the last election and that they abused their powers to do so.

> The leaked texts make it clear that the prosecutor's office and the judge (Moro) had clear political motivations for taking down the front-running candidate in the last election and that they abused their powers to do so. At the time the bulk of the investigations were happening, Lula wasn't even running for president, and the elections were quite far away (4-6 years), so you can't argue he was in the front-run of…

That's false, Lula had always been the frontrunner in popular polls for the 2018 election. He was convicted by the ex-judge in the year before and jailed a few months before the election. Moreover, just a few days before the election ex-judge Moro and his group was actively providing"dirty" about Bolsonaro's opponent to the press, even though he had already negotiated a position in Bolsonaro's cabinet.

All this political activity is revealed by Greenwald's reporting on the leaked messages.

Re: Glenn Greenwald Charged with Cybercrimes in Brazil

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In case someone is wondering how they hacked Telegram. They used caller id spoofing and a telco vulnerability. 1. Change your phone ID and try to login on Telegram; 2. Telegram will send an SMS with an authentication number followed by a phone call to the actual mobile phone; 3. To avoid the message going through, spams the victim with many VoIP calls; 4. The Telegram call will be recorded on the missed call voice me…

I'm surprised that 2FA wasn't activated.

I should made it clearer that Gleen Greenwald that was not hacked.

I described the procedure the hackers used to access the politicians conversations. Not GG's.

In one interview, Gleen Greenwald said the computer with the copy of the data isn't connect to the internet. Many news organization worked with the same offline computer at his office. According to him, he did that to avoid leaking personal information.

Yet, he published conversation of others journalists with theirs sources. Violating the secrecy of the source (protect by law). I should note that this other site editorial line is the opposite of GG's.

GG suggested the hackers to delete all the files. They didn't. That's how the police manage to get the messages of GG talking with the hackers.

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