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When Telemetry Turns Predatory: A DevSecOps Look at Digital Repression in Venezuela

Posted on Tue 25 August 2026 in DevSecOps • 8 min read

devsecops
security
venezuela
censorship
threat-modeling
privacy
surveillance

Every SOC pipeline has a shadow version. Using Venezuela as a grounded case study: how the primitives security engineers build become surveillance systems.

Catching a Nation-State Proxy: OSINT on Twitter

Posted on Thu 17 April 2025 in Threat Intelligence • 3 min read

osint
threat-intelligence
phishing
devsecops
venezuela

In 2012 I traced a state-aligned Twitter proxy tied to Venezuela's ruling party. OSINT lessons for spotting subtle, credential-phishing nation-state infra.