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Russia Remains 'Economic Fortress' Despite Sanctions, While France Slides Into Crisis: Malian Expert en.sputniknews.africa/20250630…

Russia Remains 'Economic Fortress' Despite Sanctions, While France Slides Into Crisis: Malian Expert

France expects the EU to agree on the 18th package of anti-Russian sanctions in the coming days, the country's Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot announced on Saturday. However, new anti-Russian sanctions by the EU are unlikely to have a...
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EXCLUSIVE: European Researcher Bernadette Conrads Uncovers the Shadowy Reach of USAID Across Europe — Deep State Dollars, Election Meddling, and Censorship Campaigns Exposed

In an explosive sit-down interview with The Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft back in March, European researcher Bernadette Conrads delivered a chilling exposé on the sprawling influence of USAID and its deep state-funded allies operating across the European continent.

Conrads, who currently serves as Head of Communications for MEP Petr Bystron of Germany’s populist Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), has spent the last five years tracing a tangled web of taxpayer-funded NGOs, censorship initiatives, and foreign election interference stretching from Washington, D.C. to Brussels. minds.com/newsfeed/17864936001…


EXCLUSIVE: European Researcher Bernadette Conrads Uncovers the Shadowy Reach of USAID Across Europe — Deep State Dollars, Election Meddling, and Censorship Campaigns Exposed In an explosive sit-down interview with The Gateway Pundit’s Jim... | Minds

...s the Shadowy Reach of USAID Across Europe — Deep State Dollars, Election Meddling, and Censorship Campaigns Exposed In an explosive sit-down interview with The Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft back i...
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Women have better brains than men
Safa Hussain
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Main points:
* Size doesn't matter🙃
* Women have 85% more brain activity than men
* Men's brains are bigger because they are badly built

#RadicalFeminism #RadFem #Feminism #Feminist #MaleSexualPolitics #MVAWG #SmashPatriarchy

Women have better brains than men

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Jerome “Too Late” Powell, and his entire Board, should be ashamed of themselves for allowing this to happen to the United States. They have one of the easiest, yet most prestigious, jobs in America, and they have FAILED — And continue to do so. If they were doing their job properly, our Country would be saving Trillions of Dollars in Interest Cost. The Board just sits there and watches, so they are equally to blame. We should be paying 1% Interest, or better!

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Autumn

@Wtdrisco not like they didn't already have domestic issues - we were stuck once @ Brindisi for almost a week as there was strike that included the ferries to Greece. Our car was broken into - purse stolen - people has broken glass on the top of their walls....

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A group of over 400 cultural figures from across the political spectrum has called on British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Home Secretary Yvette Cooper to halt the proscription of Palestine Action on free speech grounds.

Alan Hollinghurst, Pankaj Mishra, Brian Eno and Yanis Varoufakis are among those who have signed a joint statement organised by Fossil Free Books.

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#PalestineAction #Gaza #UK


UK: Starmer and Cooper urged by over 500 cultural figures not to ban Palestine Action

A group of over 400 cultural figures from across the political spectrum has called on British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Home Secretary Yvette Cooper to halt the proscription of Palestine Action on free speech grounds. 
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“Meanwhile, the band, Bob Vylan, who had been due to tour the US later this year, have had their visas revoked. “Foreigners who glorify violence and hatred are not welcome visitors to our country,” said Christopher Landau, the deputy secretary of state.” Odd. They let Netanyahu in and he doesn’t just glorify violence. #Israel #Palestine #Gaza

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JUST IN: Trump DOJ Sues Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and City Council Over Its Sanctuary City Policy and Recent Anti-ICE Riots

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JUST IN: Trump DOJ Sues Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and City Council Over Its Sanctuary City Policy and Recent Anti-ICE Riots | The Gateway Pundit | by Cullen Linebarger

          The Trump Administration is again cracking down on the lawless city of Los Angeles, this time over city officials’ refusal to follow fundamental immigration law.
Cullen Linebarger (Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback)

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BREAKING: The DOJ filed a lawsuit against the City of Los Angeles and Mayor Karen Bass over their sanctuary city policies that protect criminal illegal aliens and discriminate against federal law enforcement officials.

The administration is asking the courts to BLOCK the city's sanctuary polices from being enforced.

Original tweet : xcancel.com/libsoftiktok/statu…

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Este mes ha tenido lugar el primer gran juicio resultante del movimiento #MeToo en la industria del videojuego. Empleadas siendo atadas a sillas, constantes comentarios sobre sexo y sobre sus cuerpos, besos y masajes no solicitados... Os lo explico todo aquí: www.3djuegos.com/industria-ga...

"Es una loca a la que conviene...


Ubisoft se enfrenta a una de las mayores crisis de su historia con graves acusaciones de abuso. Estos...

En junio de 2020 saltaban las primeras acusaciones públicas sobre varios casos de acoso y agresión sexual hacia algunas empleadas en Ubisoft. Durante las...
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AI slop classic, somebody files a bug report for a vuln, doesn’t disclose they’ve used AI when asked, argues in the comments - and includes his AI prompt in the paste.

hackerone.com/reports/3230082

curl disclosed on HackerOne: Stack-based Buffer Overflow in TELNET...

**Title:** Stack-based Buffer Overflow in TELNET NEW_ENV Option Handling **Vulnerability Description:** **Summary:** A stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the `libcurl` TELNET...
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Canada Resumes Trade Talks with U.S. After Scrapping Tech Company Taxes telesurenglish.net/canada-resu…

Canada Resumes Trade Talks with U.S. After Scrapping Tech Companies Tax - teleSUR English

Canada restarted trade negotiations with the U.S. after Prime Minister Mark Carney dropped a proposed digital tax on major American tech companies. The decision followed President Trump’s suspension of talks in response to the tax.
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#WestBank
#Settlers #riots
@palestine

"Dozens of Israeli settlers torched a security site and clashed with the Israeli army in the occupied West Bank late Sunday, deepening a growing internal rift within "Israel" amid rising settler violence against Palestinians"
The article doesn't really say what caused this, but it is good news that IOF and settlers are turning on each other. Really good news. I hope it spreads.

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Settler violence turns inward: IOF attacked, security post burned

Settler violence mainly aimed at Palestinians has now targeted the IOF, with rioters torching a military post and assaulting soldiers in the occupied West Bank.
Al Mayadeen English (Settler violence turns inward: IOF attacked, security post burned)
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#WestBank
#Settlers #riots

Here's the motivation for the settlers rioting:
"Palestinian journalist Azzam Abu al-Adas said that settlers are waging an ‘uprising’ against the Israeli military in the occupied West Bank, demanding more freedom in attacks against Palestinians"
"Israeli settler violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank has reached unprecedented levels in 2025"

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Katz to hold ‘urgent meeting’ on settler attacks against Israeli army

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Man do I love being a fix-it-up chappy.

I've been using this old PA. It's pretty cool. A Kustom Profile System 2 from the late seventies. 5 channels, 150W a side, built in effects. It belongs to a guy named Jazzy P. He paid $400 for it way back when. I don't know if I could use it with #GreyWails but for acoustic and solo stuff it's really great.

I fixed the effects a while back. There's a separate digital module that had bad contact to the main board. DeOxit is magic, did I ever tell you that?

I noticed something was rattling around in one of the speakers. What the hell?

So I took the connector panel off the back and found that the choke for the horn had fallen off the board. One of the wire ends had never been soldered. No indication at all that it had ever come through the back side of the board and the whole tinned end was still there. A bunch of the magnet wire had come unrolled from the spindle, wrapped around some speaker wires and unplugged both wires from the horn.

Re-wrap the choke, remove the old solder, solder the loose end, RTV the choke to the board. Put it back together.

Never noticed the horn wasn't working. I guess there was enough high end to cover for it from the other speaker.

Kustom Profile system 2. The Amp/Mixer is vertically oriented, channel inputs on the bottom with a bunch of knobs above. Speakers each have two eight inch round speakers and a small tweeter horn. The whole thing is gray, super neutral in color.

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Re-watching the first season of #StrangeNewWorlds and I think I can say that this spin-off, above all the others... above Picard, above Discovery, above TNG, DS9, Voyager even, even above Enterprise and Lower Decks....

That Strange New Worlds hands down has got to be the best spin-off from TOS.

Ever.

George E. 🇺🇸♥🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

2025-06-30 16:32:31

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#Paramount+ has released the entire first #season of #StrangeNewWorlds for free on #YouTube!

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | A Quality of Mercy (E10) | Season 1 Finale Full Episode | Paramount+

"A Quality of Mercy" - In the season one finale, just as Captain Pike thinks he's figured out how to escape his fate, he's visited by his future self, who sh...
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#Syria #HTS
#sectarianviolence
@palestine

"A Reuters investigation has uncovered a clear chain of command linking the March massacres of Syrian Alawites to armed factions now operating under the authority of Syria’s new government in Damascus. One faction, the 400 Division, is an elite unit of HTS"
"Nearly half of these factions have been under international sanctions for years due to human rights violations, such as killings, kidnappings, and sexual violence"

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Top Syrian GS, MoD officials involved in Alawite massacres: Reuters

Reuters has concluded that at least a dozen armed groups, including foreign fighters, now operating under the new government's command, were involved in the March killings.
Al Mayadeen English (Top Syrian GS, MoD officials involved in Alawite massacres: Reuters)
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#Syria #HTS
#sectarianviolence
A Breaking News item on Al Mayadeen reads:
20:54 - White House: Trump will sign executive order to terminate Syria sanctions

In 2019 Trump slaps on the Cesar Sanctions on Syria, crippling their economy and destroying the Country's future.
From 2011 US/Turkey/Israel/Qatar/UAE have been funding HTS + other headchoppers, in order to destabilise and finally overturn Syria's govt.
Syria is no more and now Trump lifts the sanctions. The US Empire for you.

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UNHCR Warns: The number of registered refugees and asylum-seekers in Egypt tops 1 million as funding falls
@egypt
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UNHCR Warns: The number of registered refugees and asylum-seekers in Egypt tops 1 million as funding falls - Egypt

News and Press Release in English on Egypt and 1 other country about Protection and Human Rights; published on 30 Jun 2025 by UNHCR
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Lebst Du hinter dem Mond und hast Dich da eingemauert? Sagt Dir #taharrusch #taharruschgamea etwas?


Wie konntest Du Silvester 15/16 verpassen?
Dann lies Dich mal schlau (ist eigentlich Deine Aufgabe, informiert zu sein):

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#Islamismus #Taharrusch #dschama'i (in manchen Texten #Taharrusch #dschamai), fälschlich auch #Taharrush #gamea
#migranten #merkel #arbeit #pampern #versorgung #muße #langeweile #kinder #tradition #moslem #taharrushgamea #spiel #game
#Gruppenvergewaltigung

In einer funktionierenden Gesellschaft passen sich die Gäste dem Gastgeber an.
In Deutschland passt sich die Gesellschaft den Gästen an und verzichtet auf seine Kultur.
#Islamismus #Gruppenvergewaltigungen #Messermorde #Brandmauertote #Islam #Brandmaueropfer #Massenvergewaltigungen
#Islam #Moslem #Islamisten #Migration #Remigration #Bevölkerungsaustausch


Neue Schock-Zahlen des BKA: Jeden Tag zwei Gruppen-Vergewaltigungen | Politik

An jedem einzelnen Tag werden im Durchschnitt zwei Mädchen oder Frauen in Deutschland von Männergruppen vergewaltigt!
Nikolaus Harbusch und Lydia Rosenfelder (BILD)

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“What Is Property?”


#Pierre-Joseph Proudhon


MikeDunnAuthor (@MikeDunnAuthor@kolektiva.social)

Attached: 1 image Today in Labor History June 30, 1840: Publication of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon's “What Is Property?” Proudhon is considered by many to be history's first anarchist and founder of the philosophy of Anarchism.
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Tagesschau: Ärzte ohne Grenzen - Scharfe Kritik an Gaza-Hilfe - "getarntes Massaker"


Immer wieder gibt es Berichte über Schüsse nahe den Verteilzentren der privaten GHF-Stiftung im Gazastreifen. Die UN gehen von Hunderten Toten aus. Mit harten Worten fordern Hilfsorganisationen die Rückkehr zum alten System der Verteilung.

Die von den USA unterstützte Privatstiftung "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation" (GHF), die im Gazastreifen Verteilzentren für Hilfsgüter betreibt, ist höchst umstritten. Immer wieder werden Palästinenser, die zu den Zentren kommen, um Lebensmittel zu erhalten, erschossen. Die Hilfsorganisation Ärzte ohne Grenzen (MSF) wirft der GHF deshalb vor, Hilfsbedürftige in "Todesfallen" zu locken. Sie forderte ein Ende der umstrittenen Hilfsmaßnahmen... (weiter)

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#Hintergrund #Gazastreifen #Israel #Massaker #Gaza-Hilfe #Gewalt #Ärzte-ohne-Grenzen #Verteilzentren #GHF-Stiftung #UN #Tote #USA #Tagesschau #2025-06-27 @aus aller Welt

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'It's a Killing Field': IDF Soldiers Ordered to Shoot Deliberately at Unarmed Gazans Waiting for Humanitarian Aid - Israel News - Haaretz.com share.google/OWMffjNry2OIbibcq

Jetzt ist es offiziell...


'It's a killing field': IDF soldiers ordered to shoot deliberately at unarmed Gazans waiting for humanitarian

IDF officers and soldiers told Haaretz they were ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near food distribution sites in Gaza, even when no threat was present.
Nir Hasson (Haaretz)

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Is it possible to work on AI as a computer scientist and not reinforce the hype?

Question for @alex at a great event at the @Weizenbaum_Institut. She has “no good news”. Among other concerns, the hype is creating a monoculture in research that draws away resources for actually useful topics.

Very much looking forward to reading “The AI Con” by her and fabulous @emilymbender!

Will use “synthetic content extrusion machine” from now on.

Stage at the Weizenbaum-Institut with Alex Hanna and audience in front.

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Trotz #Kritik weht zum #ChristopherStreetDay keine #Regenbogenflagge auf dem #Reichstag.


siehe: tagesschau.de/inland/innenpoli…

Dass in #München zum Christopher Street Day die Regenbogenflagge über der #Staatskanzlei wehte, kommentierte #Klöckner mit den Worten: "Ich bin Präsidentin des Deutschen #Bundestags und nicht der bayrischen Staatskanzlei."
Carola Ebhardt: Das ist eine fatale Entscheidung, denn sie hat weitreichende symbolische und gesellschaftlich-politische Konsequenzen. Das #Verbot, die Regenbogenflagge auf dem Sitz des Bundestags zu hissen, bedeutet, dass sich der Staat nicht mehr öffentlich sichtbar an die Seite diskriminierter Menschen und Minderheiten stellt. Die Regenbogenflagge ist ein Symbol für die Einhaltung von Menschenrechten. Das wird mit dieser Entscheidung fast schon mit Füßen getreten. Hinzu kommt noch, dass den Bundestagsbediensteten untersagt wurde, offiziell mit einer Gruppe am #CSD teilzunehmen. All das schwächt den Kampf gegen #Diskriminierung total – und das in einer Zeit, in der die Angriffe gegen #Minderheiten stark zunehmen.


siehe: vorwaerts.de/inland/keine-rege…

Die #AfD findet Klöckners Entscheidung gegen die Regenbogenflagge gut 🙁

#Menschenrechte #Demokratie #Minderheit #Schutz #Solidarität #Politik #Neutralität #Problem #Verantwortung #noAfD #noNazis #niewiedercdu #Union #niemehrcdu #Toleranz #Regenbogen #LGBT #LGBTQ #Queer #Berlin #symbol #Abgrenzung


Keine Regenbogenflagge auf dem Bundestag: „Eine fatale Entscheidung“

Bundestagspräsidentin Julia Klöckner will zum Berliner CSD nicht die Regenbogenflagge auf dem Reichstagsgebäude hissen. Die Vorsitzenden der SPDqueer, Carola Ebhardt und Oliver Strotzer, kritisieren das deutlich.
vorwärts

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#Deutschland am Ende


CDU will Bäume vor "künftigen Folgen des #Klimawandels" retten. Es existiert zwar keine #Dürre, aber man weiß ja nie. Die Lösung ist "kostenlos", fällt also dem #Steuerzahler zur Last.

Hintergrund: Es ist dieser #Kulturverfall, der mich am meisten sorgt. Wir haben so viele echte Probleme, doch kümmert sich die #Politik nicht um sie, sondern um #medial #gepuschte #Psychosen: #Dürre, #Pandemie, militärische #Bedrohung ...

Die Unzufriedenheit der Bürger wird daher immer größer. Auch wir brauchen mehr "common sense" statt dumpfer #Ideologie.
#GesunderMenschenverstand
#NurnochAFD

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Senator Chides FBI for Weak Advice on Mobile Security


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Agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) briefed Capitol Hill staff recently on hardening the security of their mobile devices, after a contacts list stolen from the personal phone of the White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles was reportedly used to fuel a series of text messages and phone calls impersonating her to U.S. lawmakers. But in a letter this week to the FBI, one of the Senate’s most tech-savvy lawmakers says the feds aren’t doing enough to recommend more appropriate security protections that are already built into most consumer mobile devices.

A screenshot of the first page from Sen. Wyden’s letter to FBI Director Kash Patel.

On May 29, The Wall Street Journal reported that federal authorities were investigating a clandestine effort to impersonate Ms. Wiles via text messages and in phone calls that may have used AI to spoof her voice. According to The Journal, Wiles told associates her cellphone contacts were hacked, giving the impersonator access to the private phone numbers of some of the country’s most influential people.

The execution of this phishing and impersonation campaign — whatever its goals may have been — suggested the attackers were financially motivated, and not particularly sophisticated.

“It became clear to some of the lawmakers that the requests were suspicious when the impersonator began asking questions about Trump that Wiles should have known the answers to—and in one case, when the impersonator asked for a cash transfer, some of the people said,” the Journal wrote. “In many cases, the impersonator’s grammar was broken and the messages were more formal than the way Wiles typically communicates, people who have received the messages said. The calls and text messages also didn’t come from Wiles’s phone number.”

Sophisticated or not, the impersonation campaign was soon punctuated by the murder of Minnesota House of Representatives Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband, and the shooting of Minnesota State Senator John Hoffman and his wife. So when FBI agents offered in mid-June to brief U.S. Senate staff on mobile threats, more than 140 staffers took them up on that invitation (a remarkably high number considering that no food was offered at the event).

But according to Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), the advice the FBI provided to Senate staffers was largely limited to remedial tips, such as not clicking on suspicious links or attachments, not using public wifi networks, turning off bluetooth, keeping phone software up to date, and rebooting regularly.

“This is insufficient to protect Senate employees and other high-value targets against foreign spies using advanced cyber tools,” Wyden wrote in a letter sent today to FBI Director Kash Patel. “Well-funded foreign intelligence agencies do not have to rely on phishing messages and malicious attachments to infect unsuspecting victims with spyware. Cyber mercenary companies sell their government customers advanced ‘zero-click’ capabilities to deliver spyware that do not require any action by the victim.”

Wyden stressed that to help counter sophisticated attacks, the FBI should be encouraging lawmakers and their staff to enable anti-spyware defenses that are built into Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android phone software.

These include Apple’s Lockdown Mode, which is designed for users who are worried they may be subject to targeted attacks. Lockdown Mode restricts non-essential iOS features to reduce the device’s overall attack surface. Google Android devices carry a similar feature called Advanced Protection Mode.

Wyden also urged the FBI to update its training to recommend a number of other steps that people can take to make their mobile devices less trackable, including the use of ad blockers to guard against malicious advertisements, disabling ad tracking IDs in mobile devices, and opting out of commercial data brokers (the suspect charged in the Minnesota shootings reportedly used multiple people-search services to find the home addresses of his targets).

The senator’s letter notes that while the FBI has recommended all of the above precautions in various advisories issued over the years, the advice the agency is giving now to the nation’s leaders needs to be more comprehensive, actionable and urgent.

“In spite of the seriousness of the threat, the FBI has yet to provide effective defensive guidance,” Wyden said.

Nicholas Weaver **is a researcher with the **International Computer Science Institute, a nonprofit in Berkeley, Calif. Weaver said Lockdown Mode or Advanced Protection will mitigate many vulnerabilities, and should be the default setting for all members of Congress and their staff.

“Lawmakers are at exceptional risk and need to be exceptionally protected,” Weaver said. “Their computers should be locked down and well administered, etc. And the same applies to staffers.”

Weaver noted that Apple’s Lockdown Mode has a track record of blocking zero-day attacks on iOS applications; in September 2023, Citizen Lab documented how Lockdown Mode foiled a zero-click flaw capable of installing spyware on iOS devices without any interaction from the victim.

Earlier this month, Citizen Lab researchers documented a zero-click attack used to infect the iOS devices of two journalists with Paragon’s Graphite spyware. The vulnerability could be exploited merely by sending the target a booby-trapped media file delivered via iMessage. Apple also recently updated its advisory for the zero-click flaw (CVE-2025-43200), noting that it was mitigated as of iOS 18.3.1, which was released in February 2025.

Apple has not commented on whether CVE-2025-43200 could be exploited on devices with Lockdown Mode turned on. But HelpNetSecurity observed that at the same time Apple addressed CVE-2025-43200 back in February, the company fixed another vulnerability flagged by Citizen Lab researcher Bill Marczak: CVE-2025-24200, which Apple said was used in an extremely sophisticated physical attack against specific targeted individuals that allowed attackers to disable USB Restricted Mode on a locked device.

In other words, the flaw could apparently be exploited only if the attacker had physical access to the targeted vulnerable device. And as the old infosec industry adage goes, if an adversary has physical access to your device, it’s most likely not your device anymore.

I can’t speak to Google’s Advanced Protection Mode personally, because I don’t use Google or Android devices. But I have had Apple’s Lockdown Mode enabled on all of my Apple devices since it was first made available in September 2022. I can only think of a single occasion when one of my apps failed to work properly with Lockdown Mode turned on, and in that case I was able to add a temporary exception for that app in Lockdown Mode’s settings.

My main gripe with Lockdown Mode was captured in a March 2025 column by TechCrunch’s Lorenzo Francheschi-Bicchierai, who wrote about its penchant for periodically sending mystifying notifications that someone has been blocked from contacting you, even though nothing then prevents you from contacting that person directly. This has happened to me at least twice, and in both cases the person in question was already an approved contact, and said they had not attempted to reach out.

Although it would be nice if Apple’s Lockdown Mode sent fewer, less alarming and more informative alerts, the occasional baffling warning message is hardly enough to make me turn it off.
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iOS zero-click attacks used to deliver Graphite spyware (CVE-2025-43200) - Help Net Security

A zero-click attack leveraging a Messages vulnerability (CVE-2025-43200) has infected the iPhones of two European journalists with spyware.
Zeljka Zorz (Help Net Security)

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