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Each Saturday, Metacurity puts out an infosec long-reads issue that covers pieces we couldn't get to during the crush of breaking news. https://www.metacurity.com/trust-under-pressure-best-infosec-long-reads-8-8-26/ They're all worth reading, but in an unusual move, I want to flag my two favorites. First, Toronto Life's Malcom Johnston proves that the envious couple in the upscale suburb might very well be multi-million-dollar phone scammers. https://torontolife.com/deep-dives/the-phone-scammers-next-door/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=ten_tabs&utm_campaign=&position=4&category=fascinating_stories&scheduled_corpus_item_id=86bf5c63-8cf8-4cc3-9979-c369096e6d30&url=https%3A%2F%2Ftorontolife.com%2Fdeep-dives%2Fthe-phone-scammers-next-door%2F Next, MIT Tech Review's Eileen Guo, along with writers Gisela Perez de Acha and Martin Sona, document how the lie that the US government had a censorship-industrial complex was fevered fiction concocted by a handful of right-wing conspiracists. https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/07/1141105/how-ideas-of-a-vast-censorship-network-moved-from-the-online-fringe-to-trump-policy/