surveillance and censorship are not about safety. they're about control.

A pebble from Wicklow! (Taylor Swift did not warn me that it would be covered in sheep shit)

it's going to be like when we got rid of smoking in restaurants and on airplanes and within a matter of maybe a year everybody was like "we allowed WHAT?"

Print version of my dive into the growing threats of hackers getting access to victim organizations’ #AI. Thanks to experts from NCC, SentinelOne, Endor and elsewhere.

Meta admits that some categories of speech aren’t eligible for recommendation. Abortion content doesn’t clearly fit those rules, but content creators who use their platforms to spread educational information about abortion are feeling the consequences of being shadowbanned anyway.

The DOJ just erased its own study proving white supremacy drives more extremist killings than any other group since 1990. That’s not just a cover-up—it’s aiding fascism by hiding the deadliest threat Americans actually face. people.com/department-o...

It’s in the public’s interest to see the video of Border Czar Tom Homan who’s kidnapping immigrants with no criminal records & haven’t taken bribes to steer gov contracts & denying them due process. THIS IS THE IMM ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES! THIS CORRUPTION IS PERVASIVE! Someday, you will believe me.

Come see me talk about Reverse Engineering Surveillance Infrastructure and Feeding Your Neighbors TORMORROW at 12:20pm CT for Pancakescon 2025! Check out the other speakers in the lineup! pancakescon.com/2025-confere...

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This story, of equal or greater important to the Kirk shooting, is getting no material media coverage. The 16-year-old who shot two students in a Colorado high school on the same day Charlie Kirk was killed was a virulent white supremacist and antisemite. www.denverpost.com/2025/09/11/e...

📢 Call your senators! Check out the full opinion piece, Sullivan and Begich are selling Alaska out by scrapping the Central Yukon plan, in the Anchorage Daily News: www.adn.com/opinions/202...

I don't remember seeing any calls for violent retribution after a Minnesota state senator was assassinated, and it would have been nice not to see any today.

Charlie Kirk in 2023: "It’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment." He was wrong. No child, no moviegoer and no conservative commentator should have to die to maintain this perverted notion of the 2nd Amendment.

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

I’m just out here whimsy-maxing. (Writing sci-fi, playing the fiddle, dancing through the woods)

Look, I appreciate Newsom taking a stand as the “better evil,” but can we look up his track record with the homeless before we start posting edits of him to “Angel With a Shotgun.” I do not need to be jumpscared by y’all making AMV-style thirst traps of that man.

Meet Rayhunter - the @eff.org 's tool to gather much-needed data on the use of cell site simulators. It's cheap & easy to set up. Today we'll talk with @cooperq.com, OopsBagel, and Gibson about how CSS's can track you & what we can do about it. podcast.firewallsdontstopdragons.com/2025/09/01/m...

The cDc stands with the CDC, @altcdc.altgov.info, and all of our brave public servants as they stand up for science, democracy, and truth in the face of fascism!

cDc SUPPORTS STAFF AT OUR DIFFERENTLY CAPITALIZED ORGANIZATIONAL HOMONYM WHO ARE WALKING OUT IN RESPONSE TO FASCIST OVERREACH

I just want know how the Cesium-137 came into contact with the shrimp

Trump said the just-ended 11 D.C. days without a murder was the longest streak in years. In fact, it was the longest since…March. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

The secret to happiness: 1) acquire a musical instrument 2) write diss tracks about everything that has pissed you off throughout your life

Think of the children! (Give us your data)

“Corporate wants you to find the differences between these pictures” and it’s THESE TWO:

As a former Texas State Rep, let me be clear: LOCKING Rep. Nicole Collier inside the chamber is beyond outrageous. Forcing elected officials to sign “permission slips” & take police escorts to leave? That’s not procedure. That’s some old Jim Crow playbook.

Phrack turns 40. The digital drop is live. Download it. Archive it. Pass it on. 💾 www.phrack.org #phrackat40 #phrack72

Now that DEF CON is over, I can finally get back to what is important: WINNING THAT DANG FIDDLE MADE OF GOLD!

Nothing like refreshing the news every few minutes to see if they’re going to sell off my home piece by piece.

Shodan's $5 membership sale is live. Go go go! account.shodan.io

there’s a popular digital guide written and used by police that recommends sharing links with URL tracking elements to capture people’s IPs. Linkumori is a browser extension that purifies URLs before trackers can log you.

Well Putin certainly is an expert in bogus elections.

I take it all back, these LLMs really are just like me

The only thing that could cure my post DEF CON slump is a new Taylor Swift album

Got some provisions for the drive home

Wait, the last day of DEF CON can’t be tomorrow…. I’ve been waiting all year for this!

Not to brag, but I got second place at a DWF CON competition today

What a way to come out to a bunch of my friends as Non Binary! Thank you feet feud, thank you @tib3rius.bsky.social, and thank you to my incredible team captain @endingwithali.com!!!

And now everyone knows that I can rap the fast part in WAP at a moment’s notice…

**CULT OF THE DEAD COW COMMUNIQUE - PRIORITY 00A1** THE HERD HATH CHOSEN ITS OWN - BE ALL AND SUNDRY AWARE: @biascilab.bsky.social now walks amongst us, the Elite of the Elite. Thus it has been spoken, thus it is done. BOW TO THE COW / WORD TO THE HERD **COMMUNIQUE ENDS**

anyone working in security knows that tools can be used for good or for evil but dont forget they are often used for stupid

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“Please remember to bring your ID to get in.” You think I registered for a DEF CON party using MY LEGAL NAME?!?!? I might be doxxing myself by saying this, but it does not say “Juneau Fakenamington” on my Real ID.

All hail the glowing desert crystals

While I’m making DEF CON PSAs: Stop telling people not to go to talks! Yes, they’re recorded so you can watch them later, but it’s so incredible to be in the room where it happens and ask questions! DEF CON speakers are brilliant researchers; don’t miss out on the opportunity to pick their brains!

On the road to DEF CON Listening to the new Darknet Diaries episode Life is good

Washington Post: “Is fascism bad? The answer may surprise you” Teen Vogue: “Here are three fun tips you can use this summer to disable an armored personnel carrier”

Dyeing my hair pink the day before DEF CON is a time honored tradition at this point, and definitely not because I procrastinate every single year

Quick PSA: if you feel like DEF CON is boring or “not cool anymore” then DO SOMETHING COOL! Community starts with each and every one of us. I give you permission to stop worrying about being cringe and GO BE WEIRD!!!!

If the SCREEN Act passes, we’re gonna straight up need a new internet. www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

At EFF we spend a lot of time thinking about the tech used by police and authorities to spy on you while you’re going about your everyday life, like cell-site simulators (CSS). Rayhunter is an open source tool we’ve created that we hope empowers everyone to help search out CSS around the world.