cabal
@cabal.cx
hacker collective fighting tech-enabled abuse. ended 2025-01-01. website: https://cabal.cx newsletter: https://hatemail.io members: NY Cyber Abuse Taskforce curators: Museum of Modern Malware at DEFCON
Thanks for letting me present @brooklynwebworkers.com ! For anyone who missed the link, here it is, chock full of useful resources - aramzs.me/privacynow
Broken by Design - Ad Tech and What We Can Do About It
This is the first banner ad. Created for an AT&T advertising campaign in 1994 by Wired Magazine it is perhaps the most influential thing to ever happen to the internet. No single thing has done more t...
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There is a whole underworld of exploited workers who make up the foundation of digital tech. We talk about content moderators, but content farms are also very exploitative industries where moderately educated people with reasonable English skills in the global majority are used to push content.
Matt Ford@mford.bsky.social · 9mo agoIt may be hard to believe, but Twitter was once a useful public space instead of a weird monetization scheme for racist ragebait chatbots.
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featured here in a zine on counter surveillance by 8-ball at the NY State Zine Fair in NYC: fun zine fair find today Cabal: Now defunct international hacker collective combatting tech-enabled abuse. You can still view their resources (cabal.cx/resources/)
My response to Ring's decision to roll back reforms and go back to surveillance on behalf of police as a business model. This is part of a trend of companies bending over backwards to get in on the techno-authoritarian money/power grab that comes with being a lapdog of the carceral state.
Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance
Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is back at the helm of the surveillance doorbell company, and with him is the surveillance-first-privacy-last approach that made Ring one of the most maligned tech devices....
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New — The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) was told this week by DOJ that they'd lose their funding if the org didn't remove any mentions of LGBTQIA+ issues from their public materials, I've learned. Staff were told they need to deadname trans kids in their reports to comply.
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Friends, for something to be open source, we need to see 1. The data it was trained & evaluated on 2. The code 3. Model architecture 4. Model weights. DeepSeek only gives 3, 4. And I'll see the day that anyone gives us #1 without being forced to do so, because all of them are stealing data.
there are good positive examples - Stop LAPD Spying Coalition, or the group in SD that's been fighting against "smart street lights"; like Civil Rights Corps; like grassroots mask bloc groups that have been fighting mask bans. but they all start from and stay close to the violence people experience.
i've said this a few times now so i'm sorry if i'm a broken record, but if you go back in time 30 years, you find AI in a very different form than it exists today. go back another 30 years, and again something very different. the academic tradition that falls under that one umbrella is disjointed;
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Here's a poster version of the DIY Web Archiving zine's front cover, with some added text if you want to print copies for some space where people can take them—you can hang this poster above or nearby:
screening Adam Curtis' HYPERNORMALISATION monday 1/20 at 7:30pm eastern. IRL in bushwick, or watch at home at stream.fightdystopia.net
our network has raised hundreds of dollars to give firefighters the zyn they need to keep protecting LA from the fires. Thank you!!
I'm nonbinary. I applied for a Gender Recognition Certificate. My application was granted, but I've had to sue the UK to try to get it issued. I've spent about £100k out of pocket already. I'm expecting another £100k in costs for my appeal, which is being heard next week. rya.nc/k7
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THIS is what Tech is supposed to fucking be. Do not except anything less.
Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans)@iwriteok.bsky.social · 2y agoafter days of grifters and con men at CES we stumbled upon the booth for VLC. they were all dressed as wizards and told us, "we have nothing to sell, we just decided to show up". i told them I'd been using their software to pirate media for 15 years and they said "keep doing that"
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If y'all haven't seen this really poignant talk by @meredithmeredith.bsky.social, you should. media.ccc.de/v/38c3-feeli...
Feelings are Facts: Love, Privacy, and the Politics of Intellectual Shame
A debut of new research and analysis, focused on emotions and the affective register—love! shame! intimacy! What happens when we put lov...
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Does it feel like tech is ceasing to evolve in ways that are useful to everyday people, and instead functions to control, placate and diminish us?
Foursquare released their Places data as an open source data set, as well as through an API now that their city guide is shutting down. It is sort of a cool idea in theory but as I've been trying to work with my exported archives I found out something...
"The only clue that users seemingly had of Siri's alleged spying was eerily accurate targeted ads that appeared after they had just been talking about specific items like Air Jordans or brands like Olive Garden"
Siri “unintentionally” recorded private convos; Apple agrees to pay $95M
Apple users may get $20 each for up to five Siri-enabled devices.
arstechnica.com
"For Project Maven, Google hired hundreds of gig-economy workers to solve numerous CAPTCHAs at an incredibly low cost (roughly $1/hour). The results of these completed CAPTCHAs were then used to develop a classification program for the use of US Military drone applications" Workers had no idea
Google Hired Gig Economy Workers to Improve Artificial Intelligence in Controversial Drone-Targeting Project
As part of Project Maven, Google's artificial intelligence program for military drones, the tech giant hired unwitting “crowd workers” through Figure Eight.
theintercept.com
im rewatching my talk from strange loop 2017 and i love that i open with a Donna Haraway quire and “i am not interested in machine learning and artificial intelligence for commercial applications, don’t tell Microsoft that”. No wonder why i got fired lmao. youtu.be/L4fjPojo1yE?...
"The Future is Now" by Rachel White
YouTube video by Strange Loop Conference
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This Salt Typhoon stuff is insane. The entire FISA surveillance infrastructure has been completely owned by China and literally no part of our telecom infrastructure is safe to use without end-to-end encryption.
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