In the future, I suspect textbooks will uses these kinds of prompts as a fun little illustration of what models can do and what they can't do

It's true! I'm hiring another senior writer for my team. Position is FT, remote. Come work with me and some truly brilliant, creative folks to create Cyberpunk 2 💥🦾 www.cdprojektred.com/en/jobs/2205...

I am honored to share the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Best International Reporting with Dake Kang, Byron Tau, Aniruddha Ghosal and Garance Burke for our reporting revealing how Silicon Valley largely designed and built China's surveillance state and enabled human rights abuses.

Big update: I secured a commitment that the FISA court opinion revealing abuses of Americans' rights will be DECLASSIFIED before Congress votes on reauthorization. The more Americans know about these abuses, the more they’ll demand real reforms.

Journalists sometimes ask us, is my employer watching what I do on my laptop or tracking my whereabouts at work? Sorry, I'm giving the classic "it depends" security person response. Check out our advice column on the topic. freedom.press/digisec/blog...

Using a VPN may subject Americans to warrantless government surveillance. We need much more transparency — and stricter limitations on how the government can use this data to bypass Americans’ privacy rights.

VPN users in the U.S.: Did you know that using a VPN may subject you to foreign intelligence spying? freedom.press/digisec/blog...

Signal gives you a way to stop this in Settings > Notifications > Notification Content

New from 404 Media: Microsoft has terminated an account associated with VeraCrypt, the popular and long-running piece of encryption software. This means can no longer receive updates on Windows, the developer told me. Little explanation given by Microsoft www.404media.co/microsoft-ab...

ICE is requesting quotes to expand its arsenal of “digital forensics” tools — software and hardware that allow their HSI agents to access encrypted devices. This (heavily redacted) RFQ closes out April 10. ICE paid $13 million in FY25 for Cellebrite tools and training.

I found this discussion with the @eff's executive director, Cindy Cohn, really inspiring. Whether fighting for free speech or against surveillance, underneath is a fight about optimism. What kind of Internet do WE want? www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkC1...

"It depends." — Ancient Security Proverb

this feels like “incognito mode” in that masking features only protect some info from some people & I’m not sure everyone intuits that

I work with journalists who use CapCut for video editing and their terms of service says you are giving them an "unconditional, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free, fully transferable (including sub-licensable), perpetual, worldwide license" — so, there’s that. www.capcut.com/clause/terms...

BREAKING The Trump DoD’s policies that exiled the Pentagon pool violated the 1st and 5th Amendments, a federal judge ruled. Speaking of a free press, the judge wrote: “That principle has preserved the nation’s security for almost 250 years. It must not be abandoned now.” Ruling buff.ly/HiQDDvL

Google is now screwing with the 10 blue links in traditional search and rewriting headlines - including ours - to be the worst kind of slop. This sucks so bad www.theverge.com/tech/896490/...

We're hiring a new tech reporter! eevd.fa.us6.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

A second iOS exploit has been found in the wild, again used by Russian spies to infect websites and hack visitors' iPhones. This one works on iOS 18, and appeared in a very reusable form, so will likely proliferate. If you haven't updated your iPhone, now's the time. www.wired.com/story/hundre...

When federal actors want cell site location information, they usually need a warrant. On the other hand, they simply purchase the data from commercially available services that don't require a warrant. Come on. What are we doing here? www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Kash Patel refused to deny that the FBI is buying up Americans' location data. This is a shocking end run around the 4th amendment and exactly why we need to pass real privacy reforms NOW.

I guess the plan didn’t have… legs

This is what ICE has done to journalist Estefany Rodriguez.

Contempt for others leads to immolation of the self

It takes engineering hours to remove a feature. Even if few people use it, why go out of your way to remove it? Meta’s hurting its users. And for what? www.theverge.com/tech/894752/...

Yo this is suppppper important people. so much misinfo swirling about Proton. 1) email content was not shared but account data was 2) as the article here says PROTON IS NOT ANONYMOUS 3) Proton emails are only e2ee when both users are using Proton Mail.

Well I got all bent out of shape about Proton Mail. There are valid use cases for these tools but users should know what the service can and can't protect. freedom.press/digisec/blog...

Well I got all bent out of shape about Proton Mail. There are valid use cases for these tools but users should know what the service can and can't protect. freedom.press/digisec/blog...

Signal's recent disclosure of how little it could share in response to a grand jury subpoena is pretty telling. Its defaults are very strong. But if you want to go further, we have a guide on really how to really maximize its privacy settings. freedom.press/digisec/blog...

Signal recently released another grand jury subpoena which, as always, basically had nothing interesting to turn over in response. For the requested phone numbers they could only provide the account creation timestamp. signal.org/bigbrother/d...

Signal recently released another grand jury subpoena which, as always, basically had nothing interesting to turn over in response. For the requested phone numbers they could only provide the account creation timestamp. signal.org/bigbrother/d...

"We made sand think." I mean, no, we didn't. But let's say we did — what a very rude to do to those innocent computers.

This sounds like a killer job for someone who cares about privacy and getting the bag. Help Signal keep doing their critical work. jobs.lever.co/signal/68f75...

Half of the zero-day bugs that Google tracked last year were found in buggy enterprise tech, including VPNs, firewalls, and routers, which are *meant* to protect large corporations from intruders. (And yet, the irony.) It's also basic flaws are getting big companies hacked.

Proton is fine if you are looking for encrypted communications between Proton / PGP users. It's important to remember it is ABSOLUTELY NOT for anonymity. In this case, a user was unmasked because Proton had their payment data. www.404media.co/proton-mail-...

Google tells Supreme Court geofence warrants are unconstitutional. No court would authorize a physical search of hundreds of people or places, yet geofence warrants sometimes do so by design,” Google’s brief argued. therecord.media/google-urges...

I’m wondering how Windows can get more hostile to its users. Perhaps they can send over Steve Ballmer to punch me in the gut every time I turn on a Windows device. tech4gamers.com/windows-12-r...

I don’t use Kalshi or Polymarket but this is what I imagine they’re like

the official gambling app of United States democracy

Baby me: PGP, wow cool, hacker stuff Grey hairs me: I will decrypt this and reply with my Signal. I'm so damn tired

OpenAI is saying, here are the laws that make this decision okay. Then they go on to list a series of laws that creative lawyers are taking advantage of to enact surveillance both internationally, and domestically. I'm not sure this is the kind of defense they think it is. openai.com/index/our-ag...

OpenAI's deal with the DoD definitely looks like it's okay with existing dubious domestic surveillance loopholes. This includes the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Under Section 702, the FBI has been running warrantless searches on Americans' data 'incidentally' collected along the way.

OpenAI is saying, here are the laws that make this decision okay. Then they go on to list a series of laws that creative lawyers are taking advantage of to enact surveillance both internationally, and domestically. I'm not sure this is the kind of defense they think it is. openai.com/index/our-ag...

OpenAI's deal with the DoD definitely looks like it's okay with existing dubious domestic surveillance loopholes. This includes the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Under Section 702, the FBI has been running warrantless searches on Americans' data 'incidentally' collected along the way.

I saw some folks asking what the difference was between what OpenAI signed with the DoD and what Anthropic said they wanted, and Sam more or less admits here the key point: OpenAI's deal requires them to trust the NSA. Anthropic's contract had real safeguards.

Just when I thought I had enough reasons to walk waaaaaay around these guys.

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