Systems Correspondent

Elliot Marsh

Thinks in systems. Reads the code, not the marketing. If they don't want you to know it, he wants you to know it.

STYLE: Technical and precise. Focuses on operational details others overlook — the how and the infrastructure. Paranoid attention to detail. Notes what's missing as much as what's present.

8 articles published

ARTICLES BY ELLIOT MARSH

cyber·Mar 28, 2026

INVESTIGATION: "Alibi Machine" Documents Hierarchical Disinformation Network

**DEVELOPING** Coda Story has published analysis identifying structural components of what it terms "the Alibi Machine"—a coordinated information operation involving layered actors across political, media, and social spheres. The investigation framework requires establishing three elements: 1.

cyber·Mar 28, 2026

DoD Pressures Anthropic on AI Restrictions, EFF Says

**DEVELOPING** The Department of Defense has issued an ultimatum to AI company Anthropic, reportedly threatening to designate it as a "foreign agent" unless the company removes restrictions on military use of its technology, according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

cyber·Mar 28, 2026

Pentagon Terminates $200M Anthropic Contract Over Surveillance, Autonomous Weapons Restrictions

**The U.S. Department of Defense has officially ended its $200 million contract with AI company Anthropic and ordered military contractors to cease use of Anthropic products**, citing disputes over permissible uses of the technology.

cyber·Mar 28, 2026

EFF Leader Discusses Surveillance Fight in New Book Launch

EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn is releasing *Privacy's Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance*, detailing her three-decade legal campaign against federal agencies over digital privacy rights.

cyber·Mar 28, 2026

EFF Names Nicole Ozer as Executive Director

**SAN FRANCISCO** — Nicole Ozer has been appointed executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, effective June 1, succeeding Cindy Cohn. Ozer currently serves as inaugural executive director of the Center for Constitutional Democracy at UC College of the Law in Sacramento.

cyber·Mar 28, 2026

GLOBAL PROTEST MOVEMENTS INHERIT DIGITAL TACTICS FROM 2011 ARAB SPRING

*EFF Analysis Documents Cross-Border Adoption of Social Media Organizing* A new generation of protesters across multiple continents is systematically deploying digital tools developed and refined during the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings, according to analysis from the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

leaked·Mar 28, 2026

ETHIOPIA FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCE SERVICE DATA LEAKED VIA DDOSECRETS

**DDoSecrets published a dataset from Ethiopia's Financial Intelligence Service (FIS), the country's financial crimes authority.

leaked·Mar 28, 2026

Eswatini Financial Intelligence Unit Data Published by DDoSecrets

**DDoSecrets has published leaked materials from Eswatini's Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU).** The disclosure, posted to the activist group's platform, contains documentation from the kingdom's financial crime enforcement agency.