NEW: Our visual analysis suggests the U.S. hit two drinking-water facilities overnight in southern Iran with precision-guided munitions. Deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure could constitute a war crime. w/ @ckoettl.bsky.social @johnismay.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/w...

all you people who are constantly posting ducks and have jobs could do the most amazing thing right now and donate to my friend's ducks' veterinary care www.gofundme.com/f/support-wi...

I wrote about my SecretCon talk and about some of my frustrations around the way we talk about scams. blog.yaelwrites.com/scams-dont-e...

If you have ever emailed a writer to let them know you enjoyed something they wrote, you are among the noblest and best and most saintly in this entire world, and I hope you sleep really well tonight.

Oh, late-night legal folks ... you're going to want to check this one out.

Meta uncovered instances of WhatsApp users being targeted by phishing attempts linked to NSO Group's surveillance tech despite 2025 court order not to do so. The targets, who self-reported the hack attempts, were mostly in Lebanon and Jordan, I'm told. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/08/u...

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WhatsApp catches NSO Group targeting its platform in violation of court orders. Files injunction. Also announces it's donating to the Spyware Accountability Initiative. about.fb.com/news/2026/06...

I just fixed the RSS feed configuration on my blog bc a reader told me they had an issue importing it into their feed reader. Turns out it was pointing at a Feedly wrapper URL instead of the feed itself. It's fixed now! If you have a Ghost blog, it may be worth checking your footer as well.

It sounds crazy, but I guess when somebody tells you their only mistake was a Nazi tattoo, its possible they actually made a series of other mistakes that did not happen to produce a Nazi tattoo.

My opponents are all communists. In unrelated news, my government will be taking ownership of the means of production.

Update to FIG (where I list people search site your paid removal service doesn't cover). I added Clustal and Men Stopping Violence (new additions to BADBOOL). And I removed brokers DeleteMe only covers for biz plans (special thx to @jonaharagon.com for flagging !) docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

I once got drunk on 4 loko and tried to fight a tree. Never got drunk and got a Nazi tattoo.

"Nazi tattoos are fine, but I draw the line at..." is probably where our movements are starting to fail, I dunno

I, for one, am shocked that someone with a Nazi tattoo might also have other personal issues.

2005 called and wants its hostile vendor culture back. Let's take a moment to talk about how “responsible” disclosure would mean vendors don’t give bug hunters the runaround and slow walk fixes, then cry victim when the researcher discloses the bug publicly. 1/

So very impressed with MSRC today. infosec.exchange/@adamshostac...

I’m at SecretCon and tomorrow at 1:30pm in the Forge track I will be sharing at least two, maybe three, embarrassing stories from stage…

welp. www.politico.com/news/2026/06...

fixing some link rot early in the morning

crazy that under the precedent set by callais, a lily-white congressional delegation formed by "partisan" gerrymandering in a plurality black state passes constitutional muster, while any majority-minority district is constitutionally suspect

Have you vibe coded an app and then run it through an AI security review and found it had tons of issues? Or have you actually found a security issue on your own? I would love to talk to you for a story I'm writing!

I finished five of the six things I said I would do on a flight, proof that it can happen.

White voters in Louisiana want to eliminate the state's only remaining majority-Black congressional district — and a federal court has agreed to hear their arguments. State lawmakers just passed a new congressional map, dismantling one of two majority-Black districts. Soon, both could be gone.

This is truly one of the worst things the court has done — both in terms of legitimacy and in terms of the law — since I have been covering the court.

Sotomayor, joined by Kagan and Jackson, issues a 17-page dissent to the 4-page order: "[J]ust as Alabama doubled down on racial discrimination, the Court today doubles down on chaos."

BREAKING: In an unsigned, per curiam opinion on the shadow docket, the SCOTUS conservatives allow Alabama to use a congressional map held repeatedly by a lower court to have been enacted with discriminatory intent.

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I tried to find emotional support peaches for BADBOOL, but no luck. relatable.com/collections/...

New: we sued ICE for its $2 million spyware contract. The agency is redacting everything. We've started getting docs from our lawsuit. While we have hundreds more to go, ICE is withholding why it bought spyware to remotely break into encrypted messaging apps www.404media.co/we-sued-ice-...

Nice to see Carey discuss my blog post on always-on transcription tools alongside some great reporting by Zack Whittaker, Dell Cameron and many others...

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I just finished the May update of the Big Ass Data Broker Opt-Out List aka BADBOOL. (Yes, people have asked me to change the name and even changed it on their own sites. I am sorry to report that 🍑 wants to be free.) github.com/yaelwrites/B...

Today in check your fonts carefully

"But he says he didn't know--" I don't know if this is your first time following a political race, but let me assure you, candidates lie. They lie all the time. They're proverbial for it. They. Lie.

Unless the bar is actually the Democratic party, I guess, in which case, go right ahead and hold the doors open.

The thing about Platner is that I swore we were all passing around some anecdote a little while back about how you can't allow even one nazi, even a well-spoken one with good vibes, into your bar. I have a very clear memory of this. We all agreed with it and found it trenchant and apt.

Greg Bovino will speak at a white nationalist conference in Portugal tomorrow. He will share the stage with no fewer than five people who idolize Hitler, including one who joined a group created by two Nazi SS members. Another guy is a self-described racist who refers to women as "cockroaches."🧵

Look, plantar fascitis sucks but I think this guy has bigger issues going on

oh no I finished everything except the one thing I really need to do

No shit. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... @surj.org

No shit. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... @surj.org

🌵 Arizona 🌵 An absolutely disgusting Deer Valley School Board member, Kimberly Fisher, did a Nazi salute & said “Heil!” twice (because she was mad at another member?), then stormed off. The video is clear. If you find it, please share it- I can’t get it to download. She MUST resign immediately.

Delivering a Nazi salute is an unacceptable endorsement of an ideology responsible for millions of deaths. Kimberly Fisher should apologize to the DVUSD community and step down. 2/

AEA stands with educators in Deer Valley as they demand accountability for DVUSD Governing Board member Kimberly Fisher's despicable Nazi salute during yesterday's Board Meeting. 1/

No one could have possibly seen this coming except for the many people documented in this story who saw this coming.

ICYMI: @yaelwrites.com on her @apnews.com investigation into surveillance! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

@yaelwrites.com wrote another great piece: What My Privacy and Security Stack Actually Looks Like blog.yaelwrites.com/what-my-priv...