Posts by josephcox@infosec.exchange
(DIR) Post #B08uytvIq0Y6079LbE by josephcox@infosec.exchange
2025-11-11T15:17:23Z
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DARK WIRE is in paperback today! The true story of how the FBI secretly ran a tech company for criminals to wiretap the world. "A tense, deep, beautifully told tale that could be a top-notch techno thriller... except it's all true." Available everywhere https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/joseph-cox/dark-wire/9781541702707/?lens=publicaffairs
(DIR) Post #B0CxP5fUlmEwUtDAfY by josephcox@infosec.exchange
2025-11-13T14:11:07Z
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New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings“Big tech has made their choice”https://www.404media.co/google-has-chosen-a-side-in-trumps-mass-deportation-effort/
(DIR) Post #B0PUwqUvSvgfuzSzei by josephcox@infosec.exchange
2025-11-18T19:35:03Z
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The long running HOPE hacking conference just got banned from its current venue because someone told the university the conference had an “anti-police agenda.” Based it seems on a single pamphlet?https://www.404media.co/hope-hacking-conference-banned-from-university-venue-over-apparent-anti-police-agenda/
(DIR) Post #B0dpxBQE2t1OpLlj5U by josephcox@infosec.exchange
2025-11-25T15:17:41Z
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We need your help. Because 404 Media uses Ghost (a privacy-forward stack) we don't know much about our readers. Do they find us through articles, or podcasts? Are readers on Bluesky, Mastodon, both? Please fill this out to help us grow sustainably, it takes 1 min! https://www.404media.co/please-please-do-our-reader-survey/
(DIR) Post #B157BOFu4WhxAlDdK4 by josephcox@infosec.exchange
2025-12-09T18:55:09Z
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“I hate it,” VanderMeer said in an email. “If I post content, I want to be the one contextualizing it, not some third party. It's especially bad because they're using the most click-bait style of headline generation, which is antithetical to how I try to be on social” https://www.404media.co/instagram-is-generating-inaccurate-seo-bait-for-your-posts/
(DIR) Post #B1MxrqQKESRc05yf7w by josephcox@infosec.exchange
2025-12-17T14:35:51Z
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This is a wild hack. a16z gave a million dollars to startup called Doublespeed. They use a phone farm to flood social media with AI generated influencers and ads. A hacker remotely broke into the phone farm, unmasking the AI influencers/fake accounts, gave us the data https://www.404media.co/hack-reveals-the-a16z-backed-phone-farm-flooding-tiktok-with-ai-influencers/
(DIR) Post #B1VtHRINnTZ8iT2eNE by josephcox@infosec.exchange
2025-12-22T16:12:11Z
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New from 404 Media: Flock exposed some of its AI-powered cameras to the internet. We know because we tracked ourselves with them. These cameras zoom in on passersby, sometimes so close we could read a random person's phone screen. Required no login to view camerashttps://www.404media.co/flock-exposed-its-ai-powered-cameras-to-the-internet-we-tracked-ourselves/
(DIR) Post #B26da9jDbWMCMzKWbQ by josephcox@infosec.exchange
2026-01-08T14:03:56Z
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New from 404 Media: we've obtained material explaining how an ICE surveillance system, called Webloc, works. Draw shape on a map, see all phones available there, follow them home. All without warrant“This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” https://www.404media.co/inside-ices-tool-to-monitor-phones-in-entire-neighborhoods/
(DIR) Post #B2ChE2dWr8IIll8fw0 by josephcox@infosec.exchange
2026-01-07T15:22:49Z
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Grok is being used to remove clothes from random peoples' photos. Journalists think they got the chatbot to 'apologize'. What are you doing? An LLM cannot apologize. It doesn't know what is happening. Journalists doing this is a form of AI psychosis. Full ep here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT9lEyHnZIk
(DIR) Post #B2FNB8IBxKVJphNFj6 by josephcox@infosec.exchange
2026-01-13T15:54:37Z
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New from 404 Media: police have unwittingly unmasked millions of their surveillance targets because of a Flock redaction error. Police didn't redact specific license plates in public record releases. A site is now making that information searchable, 2.3 million plates https://www.404media.co/police-unmask-millions-of-surveillance-targets-because-of-flock-redaction-error/
(DIR) Post #B313XELUthsMXFLuYy by josephcox@infosec.exchange
2026-02-05T15:37:34Z
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A new tool lets you search the Epstein files for mentions of your LinkedIn contacts. Tried it out, does work. Outputs a report with links to the material on the DOJ website.https://www.404media.co/this-tool-searches-the-epstein-files-for-your-linkedin-contacts/
(DIR) Post #B3CIXPI1qMnWWqpboe by josephcox@infosec.exchange
2026-02-10T22:08:47Z
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Inspiring: RFK Jr's nutrition chatbot recommends the best foods to insert into your rectum.“Start — whole peeled carrot, straight shaft, narrow end for insertion, wider crown end as base.”https://www.404media.co/rfk-jrs-nutrition-chatbot-recommends-best-foods-to-insert-into-your-rectum/
(DIR) Post #B3cRJDDlrvLuk36Wqe by josephcox@infosec.exchange
2026-02-23T15:22:40Z
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Meta's director of AI safety allowed an AI agent to... accidentally delete her inbox. This is supposedly the person at the company who is working to make sure that powerful AI tools don’t go rogue and act against human interestshttps://www.404media.co/meta-director-of-ai-safety-allows-ai-agent-to-accidentally-delete-her-inbox/
(DIR) Post #B3xx017JvNBUYJ8VzE by josephcox@infosec.exchange
2026-03-05T20:39:24Z
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New from 404 Media: Proton Mail, the privacy-focused email service, gave authorities data that let the FBI unmask an anonymous 'Stop Cop City' protester. It was payment data linked to the anonymous email account. From that, FBI ID'd them, then tracked their movements https://www.404media.co/proton-mail-helped-fbi-unmask-anonymous-stop-cop-city-protestor/
(DIR) Post #B4Ish1Y9ltQCtaXFA0 by josephcox@infosec.exchange
2026-03-12T18:36:50Z
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In Kenya, we spoke to the data labelers powering U.S. AI companies. They include someone who had to watch porn all day, annotate it, then had to flirt and sext with people over an AI chatbot. The users thought they were sexting an AI. It was actually a person.https://www.404media.co/ai-is-african-intelligence-the-workers-who-train-ai-are-fighting-back/
(DIR) Post #B4apl5aGzv5XGmC4hc by josephcox@infosec.exchange
2026-03-24T13:12:42Z
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This is wild: a company is secretly scanning the internet for Zoom meeting links and turning them into AI-generated podcasts for $$$. Some meeting participants only found out after we told them. Included meeting on protecting kids from ICE, was supposed to be private https://www.404media.co/this-company-is-secretly-turning-your-zoom-calls-into-ai-podcasts/
(DIR) Post #B584iwnYbP2kyFWOuW by josephcox@infosec.exchange
2026-04-09T13:31:37Z
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New from 404 Media: the FBI was able to extract incoming Signal messages from a phone even though the app was deleted. Why? Because parts of messages were stored in the iPhone's internal notification database. Shows how secure chat data can come from unexpected places https://www.404media.co/fbi-extracts-suspects-deleted-signal-messages-saved-in-iphone-notification-database-2/
(DIR) Post #B5FuX5wDLoU9Z4xZoG by josephcox@infosec.exchange
2026-04-13T14:50:18Z
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This is a great interview about how we ended up with the internet being hell, and how that results in today's politics, including the role journalists have played.Watch, subscribe here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp_n6vDmFfc
(DIR) Post #B5HzIS6vWENW4kjBI0 by josephcox@infosec.exchange
2026-04-14T14:41:10Z
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New: an entire industry now exists for Airbnb hosts to use AI to speak to their guests. I looked into it when one guest tricked the AI into providing a French toast recipe. I found companies that analyze guest message sentiment. Guests not pleased, obviouslyhttps://www.404media.co/airbnb-hosts-dont-want-to-talk-to-guests-anymore-are-outsourcing-messages-to-ai/
(DIR) Post #B5Jd83bfxaYUVSfUcy by josephcox@infosec.exchange
2026-04-14T13:15:54Z
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A new independent audit says that Google, Meta, Microsoft are all still tracking users even after they opt out. 55 percent of the sites it checked set ad cookies in a user’s browser even if they opted out of tracking.The company's all disputed ithttps://www.404media.co/google-microsoft-meta-all-tracking-you-even-when-you-opt-out-according-to-an-independent-audit/