Wow . Steep escalation at bullet #4. Ha.

a person familiar with the breach confirmed to CNN

They said this was an Iranian state actor so that’s what we’re going with. I mean, it must have been. /s

I have encountered issues with IA torrents in the past. My issue is explained here and may be related to what you are seeing:

https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/issues/19747#issuecomment-1884145923

It’s the facial recognition piece that I find particularly concerning.

But federal immigration agents are using a facial recognition app called Mobile Fortify and U.S. Customs and Border Protection recently signed a contract with Clearview AI, a facial recognition company that has accessed billions of images of peoples’ faces off the internet

I am relatively new to the fediverse.

What is the verification process?

From the second article:

But I’m not on Bluesky and I don’t have any plans to join it anytime soon. I wrote about this in 2023: I will never again devote my energies to building up an audience on a platform whose management can sever my relationship to that audience at will

https://fedi.tips/