I wrote up a detailed analysis of TM SGNL, the unofficial Signal app that senior Trump fascists use to organize their war crimes micahflee.com/tm-sgnl-the-...

Mr. Miyazaki sir, I love your movies about how capitalism and the destruction of nature are evil, I made a shitty facsimile of them in a computer that drains reservoirs, do you like it

is ur child texting state secrets in a Signal chat? ily - I Leaked Yemen (attack details) smh - Secret Message Hahahaha tbh - Talkin 'Bout Houthis idk - I Doubt Korea (is in this signal chat) gtg - Gonna Text Goldberg

Not the first story i hear about people being asked to show a passport or permanent residence card while traveling domestically in the US.

More details here: www.dropsitenews.com/p/dhs-detain...

This is quite comforting edition.cnn.com/2025/02/28/p...

A new version of Cyd is out today! Upgrade now. The biggest thing is change is your local Cyd archive now includes images, videos, replies, and quote tweets. Re-import your X archive into Cyd to get all of this stuff -- you'll want it you want to eventually migrate your tweets into Bluesky

“Parents should check reviews of the devices they buy, both within the site they're buying it on as well as separate from that site,” EFF’s @legind.bsky.social told Parents magazine. Also, stick with recognized brands that have good product security histories.

A Lithuanian company provided data on US military personnel in Germany to a databroker in Florida, which could then theoretically sell that data to essentially anyone. The global nature of commercial online ad surveillance should concern everyone. www.404media.co/email/0747f7...

The Trump admin intends to undermine access to health care and destroy social safety net programs through budget cuts, funding disruptions, and increased eligibility requirements. Here's a rundown, with the help of @upturn.org:

All the actions taken by the Trump admin are a widespread attack on civil rights protections that have been instrumental to confronting racism and other forms of exclusion in housing, hiring, and credit. Here's a rundown, with the help of @upturn.org:

NEW: An internal email obtained by WIRED from a threat intelligence team monitoring US Treasury systems advised labeling DOGE operatives an "insider threat," adding that it recommended suspending their access "immediately." | www.wired.com/story/treasu...

Why do medical costs continue to skyrocket in the US? Well, manufacturers are forcing hospitals into 1st repair contracts, which means a hospital's own staff are prevented from repairing devices that they had long been able to fix. www.404media.co/email/42b13b...

So the Treasury is going on the blockchain... cool cool cool www.forbes.com/sites/digita...

I don’t know when people will start realizing that the US is under authoritarian rule

The hackers behind the massive breach of AT&T data last year hunted through the data for phone numbers and records of top officials and their families, including the Trump family (Melania and Ivanka Trump); Kamala Harris; and Marco Rubio’s wife www.404media.co/email/061e4e...

NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE *full* access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.

Nearly 100 journalists and civil society folks were targets of Israeli spyware company #Paragon. The targeting was a “zero-click” attack, which means targets wouldn't have had to click on any malicious links to be infected. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Trump's sudden freeze of federal aid has profound repercussions all around the world. Here are some of the stories that are coming up: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/w...

China’s repression of #Uyghurs in #Xinjiang extends beyond borders to target women Uyghur activists and their families, using digital threats, harassment, surveillance, and other means to silence them. Read @citizenlab.ca's report: citizenlab.ca/case-studies...

Trump administration just suspended all new foreign aid pending review, per State Department cable leaked to me (1/2)

Are you a journalist? Or do you work on investigative research? The Global Investigative Journalism Network @gijn.org is offering a free, online cyber investigations training program for investigative journalists. The course will run for six weeks, starting April 14, 2025. gijn.org/stories/digi...

Users are reporting that their posts are being taken down from #TikTok for saying "Free Palestine," yet TikTok denies that this is happening. Still incredible to witness how afraid the world is of even the idea of a free Palestine. www.404media.co/tiktok-free-...

The volume of scam phone calls targeting elderly people in the US is insane. If you've visited an aging person, you know what I'm talking about. Ring after ring on that landline. Several calls a day isn't out of the ordinary. Each of them a risk of wiping out their savings.

Managed to pass both my #CIPT and #CIPM in the past two weeks, while dealing with the news out of Lebanon and checking several times a day that my friends and my family are still alive. Not sure how I did it but talk about working under pressure...

After I reported on automakers selling info about people’s driving to the insurance industry, G.M. stopped providing the data to risk profiling companies. But I heard it was still selling data about how & where people drive, anonymized. This is the major use case: www.nytimes.com/2024/12/20/t...

Authorities in Serbia have repeatedly used #Cellebrite tools to unlock mobile phones so they could then infect them with potent malware, including the phones of activists and a journalist. #security #privacy www.404media.co/email/ad7b75...

Older story, but a reminder that social engineer attacks are the most commonly used against vulnerable populations, and in this case, journalists and activists. cyberscoop.com/iranian-hack...

Hey America, are you okay?

A good reminder to boycott McDonald's. Just saying.

New: multiple major health insurance companies (Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, Caresource, Medica, Elevance Health) have taken down pages on their websites which listed their leadership, following the murder of United Healthcare CEO www.404media.co/multiple-maj...

Still one of my favorite headlines to have read recently: www.404media.co/police-freak...

Anyone have experience with Cape? www.theverge.com/2024/11/21/2...

Another way data brokers can be incredibly dangerous, and why privacy matters: more than 3 billion phone coordinates collected by a US data broker expose detailed movements of US military and intelligence ops in Germany, and no one can do anything about it. www.wired.com/story/phone-...

I think this is a pretty good norm at this point, but it’s also helpful to remember that orgs mostly want you to register so that you can stay in the loop. So have a burner organizing email, follow them on social media, attend meetings, find ways to stay in the loop and get into the work.

New: I interviewed Signal's Meredith Whittaker for the 404 Media Podcast. We talked about the threat of AI to end to end encryption; what backdoors in encrypted apps actually look like, and much more. A genuinely insightful discussion. Listen here: www.404media.co/podcast-sign...

The NYT cannot even be bothered to name the fact that Biden has been condoning, supporting, and financing a genocide for the 10 months as possible reason for the lack of support.

Ahaaa…interesting developments truthout.org/articles/atl...

USPS was sharing customers’ info by hiding data-collecting code (tracking pixels) used across its site. Tech and ad companies create this kind of code to collect info about the user every time a page with the code loads in the browser. techcrunch.com/2024/07/18/u...

How Israel influences content moderation and silences Palestinians and their supporters.

I can count off the top of my head 7 or 8 Lebanese friends who, like myself, are on standby waiting to see if they can head home. Scattered between Paris, NYC, London, Geneva, Dubai, etc, and glued to the news, not knowing whether or not to board their flights to Beirut.

Not the first #privacy fail with Strava. In this instance, the author used the weekly heatmap, browsed the map, selected a neighborhood that looked like it had one active runner, and found that person’s name and where they lived. lifehacker.com/health/strav...

Another great piece by @kashhill.bsky.social : If you drive a car made by General Motors and it has an internet connection, your car’s movements and exact location are being collected and shared anonymously with a data broker. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/26/t...

Why metadata matters, and can be a goldmine of dangerous information simplex.chat/blog/2024041...

When car companies share people's driving behavior with insurance companies, including when they speed, brake too hard or accelerate rapidly. And the majority of drivers have no idea this is happening, until they see big hikes in their insurance quotes www.nytimes.com/2024/03/11/t...

Fascinating article about adtech and how incredibly granular the data can be - enough to track a specific person “The [adtech] ecosystem is the largest information-gathering enterprise ever conceived by man. And it wasn’t built by the government.” www.wired.com/story/how-pe...

Really not helping out your brand there by blaming customers for a data breach... techcrunch.com/2024/01/03/2...

The new round of fellowship is now open at Mozilla ✨ Are you interested in the intersection of tech and society? Check this out foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/seek...