Hey, so I’ll be at #DEFCON34 talking about the national fight against ALPRs with my @eff.org friends. (Friday 4pm @ Crypto / Privacy Village) But like, I need @404media.co to slow down its reporting, I’m trying to finalize our slide deck. bsky.app/profile/jaso...

Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social · yesterday

New: Police are being told to hide the fact that they're using Flock to pull people over and arrest them in both encounters with citizens but ALSO in their official police reports: www.404media.co/do-not-menti...

Making stickers and pins has always been a way for me to comment on the world. Anyways, here’s some new ones I’ve made. I’ll have these on my Etsy and with me at DEFCON! thegarbagefile.etsy.com

most tech outlets spent the week burying the lede that this was a completely avoidable error (or intentional marketing decision) by a human being, and not a malevolent self aware cyber consciousness that slipped its leash

OpenAI’s Hacking Debacle Comes Down to Human Error

If the generative AI giant had followed well-known security best practices, it’s likely that its AI agent would never have escaped to the open internet and hacked multiple companies.

wired.com

The government is prosecuting US citizen Sam Tunick for allegedly providing authorities with a “duress password” that wiped his phone when they tried to seize it at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson airport.

The US is charging an American citizen for wiping his phone at the border

Whoops, was that the duress password?

theverge.com

“The vast majority of the talent and agents at our events felt that these were a violation of their privacy and were damaging and spoiling the interactions at the tables. Several expressed concerns that they might not continue to attend in-person events if they were being recorded in secret.”

Meta glasses banned by Comic-Con promoter after 'secret filming'

A number of guests said they would be reluctant to appear at conventions again after cases of recordings taking place without their knowledge.

bbc.com

Definitionally, these are not “friends.”

Warning: Your Friends and Colleagues Are Now Recording Every Conversation

People in tech circles are carefully recording every single conversation they're having — not just at work but in their private lives as well.

futurism.com

Flock's CEO keeps saying people don't understand their tech. Just told local news their cameras take a "static picture." But the company has spent the last year announcing it was bringing real-time video to existing ALPRs and public records show this was turned live: www.404media.co/flocks-ceo-s...

Flock's CEO Says its ALPRs Don't Do Video After Repeatedly Announcing They Can

Flock's CEO Garrett Langley says people don't understand the capabilities of its ALPR system, but they do.

404media.co

You opened a credit card. ICE now knows where you live. Here's how when you open a credit card your address leaves your bank, goes through middlemen companies, and ends up with ICE. ICE plans to use this data for immigration and 'voter fraud'. No warrant More: www.404media.co/you-opened-a...

Sometimes I miss being able to see what people liked.

Meanwhile, I'll remind folks that everyone cheering on New Mexico's big lawsuit win against Meta... that one of the remedies NM's AG is seeking is stopping Meta from offering encrypted messaging. Indeed, some of the "evidence" against Meta was literally "they offer encryption."

Riana@riana.bsky.social · 3w ago

Disincentivizing widely-used online services from offering strong encryption. During a war with Iran. A country that's been conducting cyber operations against U.S. targets for years. That's what both parties think belongs in the NATIONAL DEFENSE BILL.

Disincentivizing widely-used online services from offering strong encryption. During a war with Iran. A country that's been conducting cyber operations against U.S. targets for years. That's what both parties think belongs in the NATIONAL DEFENSE BILL.

John Perrino@johnperrino.com · 3w ago

There's another effort to break encryption in the US Senate! The STOP CSAM Act was added to the current version of the annual defense spending bill, known as the NDAA. If passed, it could require Internet infrastructure services and online platforms to break encryption to scan all data.

Flock Safety cameras are tracking and sharing our data without a warrant, but local communities across the U.S. are fighting and winning against this gross privacy violation. Get involved in the nationwide movement to say Get the Flock Out at aclu.org/gtfo_

Highly recommend this thoughtful and reflective piece on AI: one of the better reads on AI and the current paths before us

nsqe@nsqe.bsky.social · 4w ago

This piece, by Jules Polonetsky and Omer Tene, is pure poetry. www.techpolicy.press/the-pope-fou...

Study: 97% Of Average American’s Day Spent Retrieving 6-Digit Codes https://theonion.com/study-97-of-average-americans-day-spent-retrieving-6-digit-codes/

ChatGPT posters and flyers are polluting real life and driving me insane. Please respond to this with the worst ones you've seen irl. I'll post some in the thread www.404media.co/we-are-livin...

We Are Living in a ‘ChatGPT Flyer Pandemic’

"Hey if this is your flyer, I’m not going, I’m not donating, I’m not sharing. Don’t ask me."

404media.co

Good lord, this is bleak. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/04/u...

‘Who Should I Vote for?’ Voters Turn to A.I. Before Casting Their Ballots

nytimes.com

Run on this! It's a real thing! People want to hang out IRL but hanging out IRL is too expensive.

kottke.org@kottke.org · last mo.

The Fun Shortage Is Real, and It’s Making America Miserable. “With fewer places to relax and socialize, and steeper prices for entry, having fun is quantifiably harder than it used to be.” [bloomberg.com]

The real ones know there’s only one Bozo the Clown.

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · last mo.

I got this into the Associated Press.

New: there is a major vulnerability with Apple’s Hide My Email feature that lets attackers discover peoples’ real emails. Verified it works on my own email. We’re not disclosing how it works because Apple has not fixed it. But Apple has known for more than a year www.404media.co/apple-hide-m...

Apple ‘Hide My Email’ Vulnerability Reveals Peoples’ Real Email Addresses

”Hide My Email users deserve to know that it may be possible for attackers to discover their hidden email addresses,” the person who reported the issue said.

404media.co

Supreme Court upholding birthright citizenship: good. Supreme Court upholding birthright citizenship 5-4 instead of 9-0: terrifying.

Flock Safety does anything but keep us safe. Their network of over 80,000 automatic license plate readers across the country puts our privacy at major risk. Join the growing number of communities nationwide that are pushing back.

Get The Flock Out

Automatic license plate reader (ALPR) companies like Flock Safety are quietly trying to build a nationwide mass surveillance system. If there are Flock cameras in your city, they are tracking, logging, and sharing your movements without a warrant. But we're not powerless. More and more communities are rejecting these creepy cameras — and yours can be one of them!

aclu.org

Is anyone in tech happy these days? Seems like no…

"Sadly, data breaches are an all-too-common feature of modern life, which is one more reason that corporations like Madison Square Garden should not harvest and hoard personal information about their customers," EFF’s @adamdschwartz.bsky.social told @cnet.com.

Madison Square Garden Targeted Privacy Activists and Surveillance Critics

A leaked dossier exposes the private data of prominent digital rights activists who publicly criticized the company's facial recognition technology.

cnet.com

Opens news: welp the worst people seem to be winning. Me: switches to see whatever Mamdani is up to as a palate cleanse.

Trend prediction: getting your CISSP to *actually* understand data center physical security and its weaknesses

You can tell when public sentiment has changed when:

Between this and the stellar WSJ story about Polymarket's fake bettors, it really feels like we have completely given up on requiring influencers to disclose paid partnerships. It only hurts consumers.

Mia Sato@miasato.bsky.social · last mo.

This weekend DoorDash tweeted about the World Cup but repeatedly tagged T-Pain, as if they were mixing him up with NZ soccer player Tim Payne. T-Pain got in on it too, acting confused. Turns out it was all a "partnership." No ad disclosure on any of the posts. www.theverge.com/news/954145/...

NEW: Insane screwup inside Meta. The company exposed worker keystroke data that was being used to train AI — making it potentially accessible to anyone at the company. The data included personnel and performance info, private convos, full transcriptions…imagine your coworkers seeing all of that.

Meta Exposed Data Internally From Its Controversial Employee-Tracking Program

Employees had previously raised concerns about the initiative, which involves collecting workers’ keystroke data to train AI models.

wired.com

This expiration happened because surveillance maximalists in Congress refuse to make key reforms to 702, specifically a warrant requirement that would prevent the FBI from dipping into a massive communications database to spy on Americans without probable cause. We say: warrant requirement or bust.

The 702 Ultimatum: Warrant Requirement or Bust

For months now, Congress has been kicking the ball down the road—temporarily postponing the expiration of the mass surveillance authority Section 702 of FISA in hopes that some consensus could be reac...

eff.org

“I don’t think this is a win for public safety. I don’t think it’s a win for the officers. I don’t think it’s a win for the public,” EFF’s @Maassive.bsky.social told @azfamily.com of AI-generated police reports. www.azfamily.com/2026/06/04/...

AI-generated police reports raise accuracy concerns

Law enforcement agencies across the country are turning to AI to catch criminals and handle mundane aspects of the job, but critics argue these AI tools come with real risks.

azfamily.com