Dialog, the invite-only network founded by tech billionaire Peter Thiel, claims it was hacked after it left its private data exposed. straightarrowne.ws/4g4y1wO

Based on what's publicly known about how Dialog configured its systems, characterizing people's access to Dialog's information as "criminal" appears "far-fetched" - it doesn’t look like anyone bypassed a technical control to gain access, EFF’s @aaronmackey.bsky.social told @wired.com.

i think its mostly the far right and shitty centrists that are feeding far right rhetoric, but what do i know

Are you stupid?

okay i actually figured out how to make neo4j work for this story, i still disagree with their community/enterprise pricing model and wanna yell at them but alas i dont think there is any other graph db i could find that combines this level of intuitivity with depth that isnt cloudslop

some people love to accuse journalists i get daily updates from and whom i actively helped understand the dataset of "stealing for me", u rly dont need to white knight for me. i'll complain if i feel like im not being appropriately treated for my work :)

Smashed three car windows already to save dogs from the heat. Haven’t found any yet but I’m not giving up.

its just kinda funny to think that guys like peter thiel and auren hoffman are forced to have thoughts and opinions about me

yo! quick question mark, why are you on the "potential future stories" list in my research obsidian, filed under "look into this guy" also can you just quickly read this old tweet of yours out loud?

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also as an aside, calling me a "well-known criminal" is libelous. i have no criminal record and have not been found guilty of a crime in any court of law.

some background on the dialog leak, uuh sorry i mean, international hacker conspiracy or whatever dialogs lawyers are calling it again

NEW: Thiel's Dialog society privately told members their data was stolen in a cyberattack. But WIRED found it was just readable to anyone on a misconfigured web page. Its lawyers sent us a legal demand to hand over the data. We passed.

do any of my data journo friends know of a good alternative to neo4j that lets me do local (as in local network not neccessarily same machine) easy graph db analysis of a dataset without putting my shit on a proprietary cloud thingie or paying a bazillion dollars

neo4j community is maybe the most cucked open source edition of an enterprise-first software. like wdym bro go fuck yourself

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it IS kind of inconvenient how there is both jeff epstein (new york financier) and jeffrey epstein (new york financier) and they are not the same person but they were around at the same time

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dude theyre trying to havana syndrome kill my ass or some shit

dude no wonder my brain doesnt work, my whole apartment is at like over 30C (86f) and over 50% humidity theyre basically boiling my ass all day and night

bullies these days r probably on youtube like "bullying method 2026 no slurs [unpatched]"

noticing a severe and continuous lack of a blue check next to my name. concerning. someone should maybe look into that.

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did you let your autocomplete write entire "professional" emails for you at your job essentially in its own?

stop sending me inquiries obviously written by claude or other llms, i will not reply.

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i don't really care if outlets use "hacktivists" vs "independent researcher" in general, but if ur this dedicated to minimizing my work at least credit me as a researcher

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Both datasets were obtained due to insufficiently secured systems that were openly leaking data, no security mechanisms were bypassed and no "advanced hacking" took place. I verify all source data sent to me and it's provenance before using it in research or passing it along to other journalists.

Both sets of dialog data are the results of source work by me, this is just currently not noted anywhere for the more detailed dataset because i forgot to ever confirm that on the record. I just wanted this to be clear because some people appear to be confused.

Erst von @t-online.de mit einer Teilnehmerliste von 2022 konfrontiert, räumt Jens Spahn ein, fünf Konferenzen des Thiel-Netzwerks besucht zu haben. Pro Veranstaltung werden eigentlich 15.000 Euro fällig. Spahn sagt, er habe lediglich Gebühren im niedrigen dreistelligen Bereich selbst gezahlt.