Profile avatar
dagrano.bsky.social
Fmr. NSC Director, Intelligence. Director, Threat Disruption @ Meta. Rescue Dog Pilot, Flight Instructor, Former Big Hair Practitioner 🏳️‍🌈
117 posts 2,785 followers 138 following
Regular Contributor
Active Commenter
Posts 14 Comments 36

For those unfamiliar with the US intelligence community, this is the Discount Intelligence Agency

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

In this episode of Zoom In Zoom Out on TaiwanPlus, The Citizen Lab’s senior researcher Rebekah Brown talks about the commercial spyware industry, its misuse by governments, and the urgent need for regulation. #spyware Watch it here: www.taiwanplus.com/news/shows/z...

submitted 71 days ago • 1 comment

Wrote a piece in @techpolicypress.bsky.social on some of the lessons that Meta’s Q3 threat report brings back to the surface in online IO: 1. Tension between virality & opsec 2. Experimentation is ongoing 3. Variation in defenses creates arbitrage dynamics 4. Line btwn overt & covert is blurry

submitted 73 days ago • 1 comment

To quote @hayesbrown.bsky.social, "this is going to be [is already] the dumbest dystopia

submitted 73 days ago • 1 comment

DRONE THREAD (I’m sorry) Context: I used to be a commercial drone operator in DC before becoming a real airplane pilot. I’ve seen a lot of people confused about this “drone” story. Some important things to understand:

submitted 75 days ago • 5 comments

As the holiday season approaches, we’re taking steps to disrupt scammers operating across the internet, including on Meta platforms, and partnering with researchers and experts to raise awareness about scams - read more below! /1

submitted 80 days ago • 1 comment

"The Haw Tuah Memecoin Rug Pull Is The Apotheosis of Bag Culture..." You bolt awake in the mountains of Carthage. You are not online. It is 217 BC. You are the general Hannibal, and you have changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Rome must burn.

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

Interestingly, Sichuan Silence LTD was also the subject of our info ops threat report in 2021: about.fb.com/news/2021/12...

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

"Big day for the GRU (ladies & gentlement the weeknd)" (2024)

submitted 84 days ago • 3 comments

We've just released our Q3 Adversarial Threat Report. Being part of the team creating the threat disruption discipline has been the high point of my last 6 years at Meta. The report covers influence operations and adversarial ops we've detected and disrupted in the last quarter. Some key takeaways:

submitted 87 days ago • 2 comments

NEW REPORT: We investigate the rising trend of gender-based digital transnational repression by drawing on the lived experiences of 85 women human rights defenders living in exile across the globe. Read the full report: citizenlab.ca/2024/12/the-...

submitted 88 days ago • 4 comments

All these takes debating whether we need to stay on X to “break through” or whatever and my top of feed there is a graphic of prominent women in history with Stars of David overlaid on their faces claiming “feminism is a tool of Jews to undermine the Christian Man” I think we will be ok without X

submitted 88 days ago • 1 comment

Ever wondered what more than 1000mph of closure looks like? Southwest Airlines passing 1000 feet below from a Cirrus Vision Jet going the other direction

submitted 89 days ago • 2 comments

Looking down the Pacific coast on a chilly Fall morning

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments