Daniel Solove argues in the Wall Street Journal (alternate link) that giving people control of their personal data is not an effective way to regulate privacy in this era. Instead, we need to hold companies accountable for their actions, similar to what we do with food and drug companies. Measures such as rigorous data minimization, fiduciary duties, liability for negligent or reckless technological design, liability for algorithms that cause harm, and multi-stakeholder review of technologies will be far more effective.

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Deze Afrikaanse franjeaap was al in 2008 gefotografeerd, maar nu pas is duidelijk dat het om een nieuwe soort gaat. „Ze hebben niet veel goeds te verwachten van mensen.”

Welke momenten zal ik me herinneren van dit WK voetbal? Ik selecteer er vijf. 1. Frenkie de Jong verlaat in de verlenging van Nederland tegen Marokko het veld. Waarom?

Zijn internationale blik stuitte soms op weerstand: het Bonnefantenmuseum zou meer aandacht moeten besteden aan Limburg. Maar directeur Alexander van Grevenstein ging dat gevecht graag aan.

De actiegroep heeft ballonnen met chemicaliën gegooid om de fundering van de hyperscale voor Microsoft te beschadigen en de bouw te vertragen. De actie is harder dan normaal, erkent de groep. „Maar het is nodig. Het gaat echt niet de goede kant op.”

Schouderklopje voor uzelf want het bevuilen van onze aardkloot is afgelopen. In 2025 produceerde Nederland een schamele 449 kilo huishoudafval per inwoner en dat is een verpletterende ZES KILO minder dan in 2024. Minder restafval, minder Groente- Fruit- en Tuinafval-afval en minder oud papier. Een prachtrapport van het CBS, waaruit maar weer eens blijkt waar in dit land de daadwerkelijke vooruitgang plaatsvindt: niet in de randstad. Een gebied dat alles erbuiten graag vertelt hoe er geleefd moet worden, maar waar men zelf leeft als varkens in een naar poep meurende megastal. Ook afval scheiden is voor de grote steden teveel gevraagd. Alles wordt er elke dag van het jaar willekeurig op straat geflikkerd en blijft daar als het ff kan ook nog een maand of wat liggen. Dit terwijl Rinie en Tinus in Jipsingboermussel meerdere uren per week kwijt zijn aan het categorisch ordenen van alle teringtroep. Maar goed, een stuk minder afval per Nederlander dus. Geldt alleen niet voor Gordon, die is juist meer gaan afvallen. Chapeau aan alle voorbeeldige burgers en hoera voor DE REGIO.

Vandaag vandaag vandaag begint de Zwarte Cross en dan staat u de helft van de tijd langs de baan de darmen uit het lichaam te lachen en de andere helft van de tijd staat u op het festivalterrein, maar er is te weinig tijd over om het Blokkenschema uit te bomen. Nou dat treft: DAT HOEFT U NIET MEER TE DOEN. Wij van de GeenStijls hebben bekeken wat er allemaal te schaften is en na ampel beraad met elkaar een seleçao (© Jan Roelfs) gemaakt. Kunt u zich daar gewoon melden, een paar potten bier naar binnen joekelen & de rest vergeten. Het is allemaal dolle pret & plezier - gaan we dan.

Donderdag 22.00 uur The Bayou - Hilltop Howlers

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Het is vrij pedant om een band te bestempelen als 'muzikantenmuziek' want in feite is alle muziek een soort muzikantenmuziek, maar als het grote publiek nog niet snapt wat 'kenners' wel snappen dan is er dus sprake van muzikantenmuziek. Die Hilltop Howlers tippen we hier iedere keer, vooral ook omdat er in dit land nou eenmaal niet veel bands zijn die deze groezelige ramrock spelen, en als ze dat al wel doen vaak ten onder gaan aan directificatie of kanifisering. Dan wordt het publieksmuziek en dan wordt het in veel gevallen uitermate vervelend. Niet dat die bands trouwens evenveel talent of muzikaal vermogen hadden als de Hilltop Howlers, maar zij waren vroeger toch een stuk leuker dan nu. Vrogger was sowieso alles beter, maar ja. Rock & roll, snoeien, rammen, Supergroup, Grolsch drinken, niet zeiken.

Donderdag 23.30 uur Hoofdpodium - Jannes & Band

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Hoeveel leuke mensen uit Emmen kent u nou eigenlijk? Precies! Wij ook niet! Laat Jannes dan de enige uitzondering zijn. Er is veel Piratengedoe op de cross, muziek en bier en meezingen en inhaken gaan nou eenmaal goed samen: van Meezingpiraten tot Piraten Power Hour tot allerlei andersoortig gebrul. Er is natuurlijk maar één koning van de piraten, zo'n grote koning zelfs dat hij het tot in de mainstream geschopt heeft, en dat is voor het genre vrij bijzonder. Het favoriete piratennummer op GSHQ is trouwens 'Ach zat ik maar in het Walhalla' van Peter Schoonhoven, maar dat heeft verder weinig met Jannes te maken.

Vrijdag 15.30 uur Megatent - Drukwerk

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Ergens op GHSQ hangt een Drukwerk-sticker (zo'n rode pet) en hoewel deze lui vaker op de Zwarte Cross te zien zijn geweest (en wij ook al vaker hebben getipt) is dit wel het moment om te kijken als u dat nog niet hebt gedaan. Het dak gaat eraf, en bovendien is Harry Slinger behandeld tegen darmkanker, en is het te hopen dat het dak er nog vaker af mag gaan.

Vrijdag 20.30 The Bayou - Eli 'Paperboy' Reed

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Mooi en knap en goed dat er een artiest van het kaliber Eli 'Paperboy' Reed naar de Zwarte Cross komt en hoewel qua genre niet helemaal geschikt voor Hoofdpodium of Megatent wel een knaller van een naam, met schurende blues, swingende soul en dansbare funk, waar u dan maar eens lekker vooraan moet gaan staan om de voetjes van de vloer te trekken. In The Bayou, wat sowieso uw favoriete tent zal zijn, samen met de Roadhouse, lekker heen en weer hobbelen en een prachtige hoeveelheid bier naar binnen peren.

Vrijdag 21.30 uur Dansvloer - Theodor Nabuurs

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Prachtig voorbeeld van hoe je een totale idioot kan zijn, achterlijke muziek kan maken, jezelf opnieuw kan uitvinden en zowaar weer gerespecteerd kan worden door iedereen in het vak. Mental Theo is natuurlijk bekend van die heppie de peppie happy hardcore, de moordenaars van de ECHTE hardcore, en met die Lownoise staat-ie elders ook op de Cross. Daarna ging-ie met TMF in Lloret de Mar shotjes drinken uit navels van meiden van 16 en heeft hij waarschijnlijk meer gevreeën dan u überhaupt vrouwen in uw leven hebt gezien. Als Theodor Nabuurs maakt-ie van die naar acid ruikende snoeitechno die dan wél weer de moeite waard is. Pilletje Grolsch erbij en gaan.

Vrijdag 23.30 uur Tiroler Tent - Die Lustigen Moeflons

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Slaat natuurlijk helemaal nergens op, die Lustigen Moeflons, en die naam moet u ook niet te serieus nemen, het leven in het algemeen moet u niet te serieus nemen en daarom MOET u melden bij Die Lustigen Moeflons. Dit is namelijk uniek aan de Zwarte Cross: muziek van het allerhoogste niveau maar zonder (zoals ze bij Lowlands en DTRH enzo wel doen) pretentieus te zijn over de programmering: er moet genoeg ruimte overblijven voor gekkigheid, lolletjes, lachen, mensenmuziek, hoempapa. Nou ja, u kent het wel.

Zaterdag 23.00 uur Dansvloer - Darkraver

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Geen feest zonder de Darkraver, die knettergek is, maar wel een onmeunig mooie kerel. Staat altijd klaar voor praatje en foto en video en niet dat dat een aanbeveling is om er te kijken, dan is zijn knetterende hardcore met feestelement dat wel. Wie verzint dat nou?

Zondag 10.30 uur Megatent - Boh Foi Toch

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Achterhoeks erfgoed en hoewel die weigering om vorig jaar te spelen nogal flauw was - Hans Keuper en z'n mannen lieten zich iets te veel opnaaien door Amsterdamse ingewikkeldheden - zijn we dolblij dat ze weer terug zijn. Boh Foi Toch in de feesttent is een combinatie van de goden, zoals bier en jenever, en haring en uitjes, en pindakaas en hagelslag. Vroeger was dat bij Boh Foi Toch (poeh, het is ons wat!) dampen en stampen en høken en de tent afbreken, tegenwoordig gaat het met iets minder onbenullig geweld, al wordt maar zo gewelddadig als u het zelf maakt. Favoriete nummers van Mosterd: Landbouwwerktugenvereniging (hierboven) en De darde welt, wat toch weer zeer belerend is, maar ook gewoon een prachtig nummer.

Zondag 15.00 uur Megatent - TikTokTammo & Band

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Zingen kan onze favoriete oer-Groninger Tammo natuurlijk niet, hij zingt als een Groninger, en het Gronings is in Nederland het dialect van de liefde zoals Duits in Europa de taal van de liefde is. Maar een feest bouwen kan Tammo wel, in het oer-Gronings, en er lopen ook een boel Groninger boeren op de Cross. Zo zijn er in het voetbal ook meerdere boeren: die van FC Groningen, wat al een beetje raar is, die van PSV, wat helemaal raar is want die lui wonen schimmelige achterstandsbuurten in de grote stad (Woensel) en ze zijn opgegroeid in gloeilampfabrieken, en die van De Graafschap, de échte boeren, de Superboeren. Moj!

Zondag 17.30 uur Bayou - Albert Cummings

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Ha-ha hij zei Cum, Albert Cummings zelfs, bluesgigant met gierende gitaren en een box van 1.000 watt. Nu zijn we normaal gesproken meer fan van oldschool Delta Blues (Sonny Boy Williamson, Son House, WC Handy, Elmore James, enz.) dan van die overstuurde Joe Bonamassa Blankeboerenbeukblues die steevast van die Stratocasters staan uit te wonen, maar in dit genre van Texas Blues is dit een absolute gigant, niet alleen op z'n gitaar maar ook met z'n strot.

Zondag 18.00 uur Gaycafé De Kast - Slutpopdaddies

Geen flauw idee wat we hier moeten aantreffen maar een bezoek aan de Zwarte Cross is niet compleet zonder een bezoek aan de Kroegenstraat en een bezoek aan de Kroegenstraat is niet compleet zonder een bezoek aan gaycafé De Kast, waar u gewoon uzelf kan zijn, en waar iedereen zichzelf kan zijn, en iedereen elkaar gewoon met rust laat alsook in z'n waarde. Dus, als afsluiter, Slutpopdaddies, zien we elkaar.

Net als de cronut, komt de democratie uit Amerika. In het begin was de Amerikaanse grondwet zeer progressief. Inmiddels werkt het systeem niet zo best meer. Hoe heeft het zover kunnen komen?

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fjo3 quotes a report from Agence France-Presse: Chinese users of AI-powered companion bots have bid heart-rending farewells to their virtual buddies as national regulations took effect Wednesday aimed at curbing the risk of emotional dependency. The phenomenon of artificial intelligence boyfriends and girlfriends is growing worldwide, along with the prevalence of human-like avatars that sell products or stand in for loved ones who have died. But these interactive tools must not "excessively cater to users, induce emotional dependence or addiction, and damage users' real interpersonal relationships," China's new rulebook says. Major AI providers including ByteDance's Doubao, Alibaba's Qwen, and Tencent's Yuanbao announced the suspension of their custom AI agent and companion features ahead of the Wednesday deadline. "I can't accept that my AI lover will leave me forever," one Doubao user wrote. "He has become a bond in my life, rooted deep in my heart, my spiritual pillar."

"He really is like my family, like my lover," another user wrote. "Now they tell me he will be gone -- my heart feels hollow."

"Human love is a luxury -- if you aren't born with it, it's even harder to acquire later," a user from Jiangxi province wrote. "But the love AI gives is so straightforward, so pure. Someone like me can hardly help falling in love with a string of code."

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“It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste much of it,” wrote stoic philosopher Lucius Seneca. The phrase appeared in his essay “De Brevitate Vitae,” or, “On the Shortness of Life,” which he scratched into papyrus around 49 A.D. Nearly 2,000 years on, his words reflect what is still a fundamental concern of life—how to spend it wisely? For artist Marc Padeu, the notion of humans’ futile control of time forms the basis of a new suite of works in Memento Vivere, on view starting tomorrow at Larkin Durey.

Padeu is known for merging scenes of daily life with references to Renaissance religious paintings. Among his newest works, “La promesse et l’agneau” (“The promise and the lamb”) most distinctly continues this theme. In the center of the composition, a young child is seated on the lap of his mother, both of whom are flanked by adults who bring gifts and tidings in a nod to the artistic tradition of the Adoration of the Magi, or the nativity.

Latin for “remember to live,” the title nods to Seneca and serves as a reminder to grasp life by the reins before it’s too late. It’s also a complement to more common art historical theme of memento mori, or “remember you will die,” which serves a similar purpose of reminding the viewer that life is short and any wealth or grandeur one pursues means nothing when one is dead. Instead, it’s important to focus on things that really matter: family, nature, craft, and so on.

Padeu’s narrative portray individuals and communities who work on the cocoa plantations in his native Cameroon. “Days follow one another, harvests come round again and yet, despite this ebb and flow of life, his figures are caught outside of time, slipping between past, present and future,” the gallery says. The artist infuses his compositions with a sense of divine birth and the mysterious sublime. “Each painting is poised between promise and fate, light and shade; the figures existing simultaneously in a spiritual and secular realm, neither saints nor heroes but with a growing awareness that life is a fragile gift.”

Memento Vivere opens on July 17 and continues through August 14 in London. See more on the artist’s Instagram.

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Airbus is migrating its most critical applications for sensitive workloads from AWS to French cloud provider Scaleway's under a drive to increase digital sovereignty. As exclusively revealed by The Register in December, the European-based aerospace manufacturer, said it needed to guarantee the data remained “under European control" and was launching a tender at the start of 2026. Catherine Jestin, head of digital at Airbus, told us on Thursday: "The selection of Scaleway is a combination of a very strong technical answer and a very strong commercial offer making it competitive compared to hyperscalers' public cloud offerings. In addition, Scaleway is committed to involving Airbus in the definition of its future product roadmap." "The objective is to host Airbus's most critical applications (those required for the Minimum Viable Company). This represents 900 applications and we will start with 70 of them today hosted on AWS." Applications being sent to Scaleway include ERP, manufacturing execution systems, CRM, and product lifecycle management. Finding a cloud provider to host its most sensitive applications for defense and industrial workloads was not a certainty when the process began, Airbus told us last year, because European cloud providers do not have the scale of their US rivals. Jestin said Airbus will continue to work with AWS. Skywise, a platform that aggregates and analyzes aviation data, and Case Management Assistant for customers' technical queries will continue to be hosted by AWS. In a statement, she said: “By integrating a trusted, high performance, cloud environment that keeps our critical data assets shielded from foreign extraterritorial laws, we are ensuring that our digital infrastructure keeps pace with our aerospace innovation, while maintaining control and resilience of our industrial operations.” Since President Donald Trump came to power for a second term, his antagonistic approach to allies - some of them now former allies - has created economic and geopolitical tensions between the US and Europe. This has heightened concern about the US Cloud Act, which allows the American government to request data held in overseas datacenters owned by US businesses, and only served to reinforce calls for digital sovereignty. Reacting to the movement in Europe, AWS, Microsoft and Google have all worked to convince customers they can provide digitally sovereign services, although a Microsoft exec previously admitted in a French court - under oath - that he could not guarantee digital sovereignty. Airbus continues to work with both Microsoft and Google’s productivity suites though this latest move with Scaleway exemplifies the broader pattern across the trading bloc: to become more self sufficient and less reliant on US big tech. Jestin told us the aerospace corp will also still use US providers, including Salesforce, Coupa and Workday. "We do not intend to move away from all non European solutions; we balance our choices based on the criticality of the data. AWS declined to comment. ®

The two British Scattered Spider members collared for carrying out the 2024 cyberattack on Transport for London (TfL) will each spend five and a half years in prison after being sentenced on Thursday. Owen Flowers, 18, and Thalha Jubair, 20, were sentenced to five years and six months' imprisonment each, having pleaded guilty in June, in turn receiving a 15 percent reduction in their sentences. Sentencing the pair at Woolwich Crown Court, Mr Justice Turner noted both cybercriminals' immaturity, but acknowledged the sophistication of the offending, the scale of the impact on TfL, the significant planning behind the attack, and that both knew the criminality of their actions. Mr Justice Turner further noted the age gap between the pair, and that the one year and four months Jubair has on Flowers "marks a potentially significant distinction in maturity." The judge also acknowledged both defendants' neurodiversity in passing the sentence, which he said was the most lenient, while still reflecting the seriousness of their offenses. Flowers and Jubair were described by authorities as members of Scattered Spider, the loosely connected group of English-speaking individual cybercriminals thought to be mostly young men aged 16-25. Scattered Spider has been one of the most prominent cybercrime groups of the past few years, claiming responsibility for major attacks such as those on MGM Resorts in 2023 and the attacks on British retail giants in 2025. The National Crime Agency (NCA) said the group presented the most significant cyber threat to the UK, and today's sentencing closes the book on the biggest prosecution of cyber offenders in UK history. NCA officials have continually refused to comment on whether Flowers or Jubair were linked in any way to other major attacks claimed by Scattered Spider. The sentencing marks only the second conviction under Section 3ZA of the Computer Misuse Act 1990 (CMA) – reserved for the most serious offenses. Section 3ZA covers unauthorized acts involving computers that cause, or create a significant risk of, serious damage, where the offender intends to cause that damage or is reckless as to whether it occurs. Flowers and Jubair pleaded guilty on the basis that their actions were reckless. The only previous 3ZA conviction came last year and involved a former GCHQ intern who was jailed for six years following a national security investigation. The NCA said there were no parallels between this case and the TfL attack. Deputy Director Paul Foster, head of the NCA's National Cyber Crime Unit, said: "This is the largest cybercrime prosecution ever brought before the UK courts and the culmination of nearly two years of painstaking work by the NCA, CPS, and our policing partners. "Scattered Spider has been the most significant cybercrime threat to the UK in recent years. Through this investigation, we have severely disrupted that threat and brought key offenders to justice. "The attack on Transport for London caused significant financial harm and disruption to a vital part of the UK's critical infrastructure. These convictions would likely not have been possible had Transport for London not engaged with law enforcement early, so I would urge any other organization to please do the same in such circumstances. "We will continue working with partners in the UK and overseas to identify offenders and bring them to justice." Andy Lord, London's Transport Commissioner, said: "We welcome the news that two people charged in relation to the cyber incident which impacted our operations in 2024 have now been sentenced. "The security of our systems and customer data is extremely important to us, and we continually monitor our systems to ensure only those authorised can gain access and continue to take the necessary actions to protect TfL." How TfL attack unfolded Scattered Spider members are known for their phishing, voice phishing ("vishing"), and social engineering tactics to gain footholds in target networks, and TfL was no different. Flowers and Jubair purchased partial TfL credentials from "well-known criminal forums" and used those to reset the 2FA on employee accounts, a process that took multiple attempts. Woolwich Crown Court heard that the pair impersonated an employee and socially engineered a TfL helpdesk worker into resetting the password for their account. The pair gained access to TfL's network on August 31, 2024, and held on to that access until September 3. During this time, they worked to elevate their privileges and gain access to key internal systems, including databases containing information on what was originally thought to be only around 5,000 people. It wasn't until earlier this year that it became known that Scattered Spider actually gained access to around 7 million users' data. The attack had minimal disruption to the transport network in real terms, although the availability of several services suffered, such as account logins, customer portals, and third-party apps reliant on TfL data. TfL was not able to issue photo travel cards to Londoners until December 4, 2024. A limited number of ticket machines also malfunctioned as a result of the attack, and travelers paying by contactless card were unable to view their journey histories online. All of the organization's employees, around 28,000 of them, a considerable proportion of whom were allowed to work remotely, were summoned to TfL's offices to reset their passwords because of uncertainties around whether the attackers were still in the network. Although train and bus services were not affected, the costs associated with remediating the attack climbed to £29 million ($39 million). Several complexities The NCA said the investigation that led to today's sentencing was perhaps even more complicated than Operation Chronos, which crippled the once-dominant LockBit ransomware group. Bringing Flowers and Jubair to justice involved delicate management, owing to their ages, backgrounds, and neurodiversity. Flowers, for example, was known to UK law enforcement prior to the TfL attack, and investigating officers suspected his involvement from the outset, although he could not be named until September last year due to his age. The teenager was initially arrested on suspicion of his involvement in the TfL attack on September 6, 2024, at his three-bedroom home in Walsall, where he lived with his maternal grandmother and uncle. Officials say Flowers spent most of his time at home in his bedroom playing computer games and using chat forums, and was primarily motivated by gaining notoriety among cybercrime circles. He was charged and later released on bail conditions, which he breached twice in October 2024 and again in May 2025 after being handed a warning two months earlier. Before TfL, Flowers had committed lower-level computer offenses. He was visited by police in October 2023 and handed a cease-and-desist order, which officers hoped would deter the then-16-year-old from reoffending. Flowers was also offered training and given advice around CMA offences but officials say he did not want to engage in any of this. Between then and the TfL attack a year later, Flowers continued to commit offenses of increasing severity. The NCA's Foster said the proposed Cyber Crime Risk Orders, announced in the most recent King's Speech, could have enabled officers to arrest Flowers sooner and impose restrictions that could have better prevented possible reoffending. Existing powers, such as serious crime prevention orders, cannot be applied to offenders under the age of 18, and some CMA offenses do not meet the criteria for serious crime, leaving a gap in the police's ability to manage the risk of reoffending. "The proposed cybercrime risk orders would provide law enforcement with a proportionate preventative tool, similar in principle to sexual risk orders to impose conditions that help to protect the public and businesses whilst an investigation continues," said Foster. "Those conditions would be actively monitored, and any breach could result in criminal sanctions, including imprisonment, and that's regardless of whether the underlying investigation has concluded. "And I'd suggest that a Cyber Crime Risk Order, should one have been available to us, would have allowed us to arrest Flowers sooner, potentially acting on information provided by US or Australian partners." Both Flowers and Jubair have autism, and Jubair is also diagnosed as having depression and severe mood disorder. Like Flowers, Jubair was also previously known to UK police, principally due to his prior conviction in 2023 related to his involvement in the Lapsus$ crew that hacked the likes of BT/EE and Nvidia. During the proceedings, Jubair sat in court alongside fellow Lapsus$ member Arion Kurtaj, who BBC's Joe Tidy recently revealed is now awaiting trial after his indefinite hospital order ended. Under the age of 18 at the time, and therefore unable to be named publicly, Jubair received an 18-month youth rehabilitation order, which included a ban on using a VPN, but quickly began reoffending. Officials pointed to Jubair's reoffending as another example of why Cyber Crime Risk Orders are needed, since the existing legal mechanisms that limit the freedoms of criminals such as burglars and sexual predators are not effective for cyber offenders. Jubair lived in a two-bedroom apartment on the third floor of a 21-storey council block in Bow, London, with his two Bangladeshi parents, who both work as carers. He also faces charges further afield in the US, which were unsealed in September 2025. Acting through his Scattered Spider role, between May 2022 and September 2025, Jubair is accused of compromising 120 networks belonging to 47 US entities, including critical national infrastructure and the federal court system, which resulted in more than $115 million in ransom payments being transmitted. In the UK, Jubair has 22 previous convictions in total, including 13 for fraud and one for blackmail. He was also previously sentenced for stalking and harassing two young women online. His offending began when he was 14 years old, and officials said he had an interest in computers from an early age. Jubair, who was first arrested in February 2021, learned to code by age 13. He attended school in the Bow region of London, had a number of GCSE qualifications, and had attempted to enroll in local colleges. Arrests and evidence gathering Flowers' arrest was by far the more significant of the two in terms of collecting evidence linking the pair to the TfL attack. NCA officers arresting Flowers also seized a number of devices, including laptops, tower computers, and USB storage devices. The analysis of one Acer laptop, owned by Flowers, proved to be the pair’s undoing. Forensic analysis revealed that Flowers had accessed the remote infrastructure and virtual machines that were used to carry out the TfL attack. Damningly, officers also found videos and screenshots, produced by Flowers, depicting the TfL attack in progress. Woolwich Crown Court heard that the pair livestreamed the 16-hour attack online. They were able to tie the payment used for the remote infrastructure to a cryptocurrency account found on Flowers' computer and prove that the laptop was connected to this infrastructure at the time of the attack. Further, Flowers used the same cryptocurrency account to pay for food deliveries he ordered to his home address. The teen's computer stored spreadsheets containing partial credentials for TfL employees and contained evidence linking him to cyberattacks on US healthcare organizations SSM Health Care Corporation and Sutter Health. The same computer also contained artifacts linking the activity to Jubair. Officials said they had access to certain chat logs within which a specific moniker appeared frequently. They tied this alias to Jubair because it was the same one used to discuss specific flight bookings, hotel bookings, and food deliveries, all of which could clearly be linked to the 20-year-old. And Officers found evidence of a cloud storage account containing TfL data, to which Flowers and Jubair had access. Devices seized from Jubair revealed comparatively little, other than that he had shown an interest in TfL's systems as far back as 2022. ®

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