Open Tea News Archive December 2022 - - - The Parler/YE deal has been terminated. In October, YE (Formally Kanye West) agreed to purchase Parlement Technologies, the parent company of the Parler social platform. See the Tweet https://twitter.com/parler_app/status/1598422341553364993 12/1/22 5:30pm MST - - - Twitter Files part 1 Today Twitter released information about Twitter censorship and the Hunter Biden laptop story. Read the Tweet Thread https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1598822959866683394 12/2/22 11:36pm MST Read our Archive https://www.openteanews.com/archive/twitterfiles1.txt - - - Elon Musk considers the possibility that Twitter may have interfered in the 2022 election in Brazil. See the Tweet https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1598990820665065472?s=20&t=KcI5YTYYT7M_NPY3td5qPg 12/3/22 2:57pm MST - - - Time Magazine names Volodymyr Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, "Person of the Year." Read the article https://time.com/person-of-the-year-2022-volodymyr-zelensky/ 12/7/22 12:12pm MST Read the Tweet https://twitter.com/TIME/status/1600470652363866113 - - - Kevin McCarthy (R) has released a plan for oversight and accountability. Read the article https://republicanleader.house.gov/oversight-in-the-118th-congress/ 12/7/22 12:32pm MST - - - House Ethics Committee opens investigation into Rep. AOC. Read the release https://ethics.house.gov/press-releases/statement-acting-chairwoman-and-acting-ranking-member-committee-ethics-regarding-3 12/7/22 12:50pm MST - - - Texas Gov. Greg Abbott: "The Texas National Guard is doing the federal government’s job at our border. They’re working around the clock to stop illegal crossings into Texas, including on Christmas Day." Read the Tweet https://twitter.com/gregabbott_tx/status/1606346039585255424?s=46&t=0QKfx8aSmvRinyz4GnEm1w 12/23/22 2:43pm MST - - - Narcotrafficker pleads guilty Gerado Gonzalez-Valencia pleaded guilty to international cocaine trafficking. Read the release https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/narcotrafficker-pleads-guilty-international-cocaine-trafficking-conspiracy 12/23/22 3:06pm MST - - - LastPass password management service experiences "security incident". "Based on our investigation to date, we have learned that an unknown threat actor accessed a cloud-based storage environment leveraging information obtained from the incident we previously disclosed in August of 2022. While no customer data was accessed during the August 2022 incident, some source code and technical information were stolen from our development environment and used to target another employee, obtaining credentials and keys which were used to access and decrypt some storage volumes within the cloud-based storage service." ... -Excerpt from the statement from LastPass. Read the full statement below. Read the release https://blog.lastpass.com/2022/12/notice-of-recent-security-incident/ 12/23/22 3:38pm MST - - -