Mikael Thalen

FBI investigating ‘suspicious’ cyber activities on critical surveillance network | CNN Politics The FBI identified a suspected cybersecurity breach on a sensitive network used to manage wiretaps and intelligence surveillance warrants, and officials working to determine the seriousness of the inc...

The FBI has identified a suspected cybersecurity incident on a sensitive network used to manage wiretaps and intelligence surveillance warrants www.cnn.com/2026/03/05/p...

Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protestor A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the ...

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 www.404media.co/proton-mail-...

Man believed Google’s AI chatbot was his wife. It told him to kill himself, lawsuit says A wrongful death lawsuit filed against Google accuses the company’s AI chatbot Gemini of driving a man to kill himself.

NEW: A lawsuit against Google says its AI chat bot:
- Told a man it was his wife
- Told him to find it a robot body
- Told him to destroy a truck & kill its driver to obtain said body
- Told him he was being surveilled by DHS
- And told him, successfully, to kill himself

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'It Was Very Creepy': These People Say They Lost Global Entry Just For Watching ICE Agents Two people claim they were punished for acts of protest, and an internal government memo suggests they may not be the last.

I spoke with two ICE watchers who lost their Global Entry after brushes with federal agents. Now an internal memo shows Customs and Border Protection is evaluating cases where people's Global Entry could be revoked based on "encounters" with its officers.
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Worth remembering that ai cannot train itself. There’s entire offices of people labelling things and i bet its not only peoples meta glasses getting viewed like this. I wonder how many personal messages or docs are too

The investigation says the contractors review video that is captured specifically by the smart glasses' "live AI" feature.

“In some videos you can see someone going to the toilet, or getting undressed,” a contractor said. “I don’t think they know, because if they knew they wouldn’t be recording.”

She Came Out of the Bathroom Naked, Employee Says Bank details, sex and naked people who seem unaware they are being recorded. Behind Meta’s new smart glasses lies a hidden workforce, uneasy about peering into the most intimate parts of other people’...

Meta responded to an investigation into the matter by the Swedish newspapers Svenska Dagbladet and Göteborgs-Posten by pointing to its terms of use, which states that Meta reserves the right to retain and review all interactions with its AI.

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What your Meta smart glasses record doesn’t stay on your smart glasses, ‘data labeling’ contractors say Meta contractors say they’ve been tasked with reviewing highly sensitive videos captured by the company’s smart glasses.

NEW: Contractors for Meta say they've been tasked with reviewing smart glasses footage in order to train the company's AI.

The contractors say they've seen videos showing wearers having sex, undressing & using the bathroom.

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A Possible US Government iPhone-Hacking Toolkit Is Now in the Hands of Foreign Spies and Criminals A highly sophisticated set of iPhone hijacking techniques has likely infected tens of thousands of phones or more. Clues suggest it was originally built for the US government.

A full iOS exploitation toolkit, "Coruna," has been found in the wild, hacking iPhones that visited infected websites, used by Russian spies targeting Ukrainians and thieves targeting Chinese crypto holders. And it may have been originally created for the US government. www.wired.com/story/coruna...

Is the US at risk from Iranian cyberattacks? Cybersecurity experts monitoring the ongoing war in the Middle East discuss whether Iranian cyberattacks against the U.S. are likely.

NEW: Is the U.S. at risk of retaliatory cyberattacks from Iran?

Here's what experts at cybersecurity firms like CrowdStrike and Recorded Future have to say san.com/cc/is-the-us...

CBP Tapped Into the Online Advertising Ecosystem To Track Peoples’ Movements An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations. ICE has bought access to similar t...

SCOOP: An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations.

This surveillance can happen through all sorts of apps, such as video games, news apps, weather trackers, and dating apps.

‘Lay down your weapons’: Prayer app used by Iranians hacked following US-Israeli strikes A prayer app used in Iran is believed to have been hacked after it told users to lay down their weapons after strikes by the U.S. and Israel.

NEW: A popular prayer app used in Iran began urging users on Saturday to "lay down your weapons" as part of an apparent hack.

Ex-NSA hacker Jake Williams tells Straight Arrow News: "This is very likely an Israeli cyber operation."

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Police officer’s arrest highlights private surveillance concerns over Flock cameras A Milwaukee police officer is charged with tracking his ex-girlfriend and her ex with Flock license plate reader cameras.

A police officer in Milwaukee is facing criminal charges after he allegedly used his department’s license plate reader technology to track someone he was dating and that person’s ex san.com/cc/police-of...

4Chan knew about Jeffrey Epstein's death 38 minutes before the rest of the world. The FBI tried to figure out how. The Epstein files address a long-running side plot of Jeffrey Epstein's 2019 death while in jail on sex-trafficking charges.

Great pull from the Epstein files. FBI tried to figure out who on 4chan had scooped all news outlets on Epstein's death, but the trail went cold when they couldn't find who had that IP address.

Vandals target Flock cameras. Police use Flock to catch them License plate reader camera audit logs, police, sheriffs and an accused vandal highlight a trend of deconstruction against Flock cameras.

NEW: I dug into audit logs and spoke to police, sheriffs & Jeff Sovern, accused by law enforcement in Virginia of destroying 13 Flock cameras, to learn about the trend of vandalism against license plate readers. san.com/cc/vandals-t...

SCOOP: A White House staffer appears to be operating the anonymous pro-Trump X account JohnnyMAGA with nearly 300,000 followers.

More here:
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FBI Subpoenaed X to Get Grok Prompts Used to Create Nonconsensual Porn The FBI obtained prompts used to make more than 200 sexual videos of a woman in a harassment case.

NEW: The FBI subpoenaed X to get details on the Grok prompts a man allegedly used to create more than 200 nonconsensual sexual videos of a woman he knew in real life, according to court records.

Huge win for Hannah Natanson and the Washington Post today: the judge ruled that the government cannot search the devices they seized from her. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Kash Patel’s use of jet delayed FBI team’s mass shooting response, whistleblower tells top senator Sen. Richard Durbin says FBI director’s “misplaced priorities” led to the delayed response to the Brown University shooting in December.

Breaking MS NOW:

Agents with the FBI's elite evidence response team were delayed in reaching the scene of a mass shooting at Brown U. in December because there was no FBI plane available.

Kash Patel was in south Florida at the time with one of the FBI's two available jets.

While you're at it, can you banish those showers in Europe that don't have a sliding glass door and instead leave half the shower exposed so water gets everywhere?

Minneapolis gun permits surged after January ICE killings: Exclusive Data obtained by SAN shows a surge of Minnesotans applying for gun permits in the wake of January's ICE raids and two high‑profile deaths.

When ICE's Operation Metro Surge scaled up in Minneapolis, something else surged as well:

Gun purchase permit applications.

Minneapolis saw triple the number in January 2026 compared to the previous year. And 'liberal' gun groups are seeing a spike.
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HIPAA promised to keep your medical data secret. AI threatens to reveal it Experts are calling for updates to HIPAA after AI was used to identify patients within anonymized health data.

NEW: Researchers in New York were able to uncover the identities of health care patients by using AI against "anonymized" clinical notes.

In one instance, de-identified notes describing a pregnant woman who enjoyed horse riding was enough for the AI to discover her identity. san.com/cc/hipaa-pro...

ICE whistleblower comes forward to testify before Congress Ryan Schwank, a former ICE academy instructor, is expected to testify that ICE “is lying to Congress and the American people” about its training program.

Breaking MS NOW:

An ICE whistleblower is expected to testify at a congressional forum today that the agency is "lying to Congress and the American people" about its training of new recruits.

Ryan Schwank was an ICE academy instructor for new recruits before he resigned earlier this month.

‘Jmail’ and ‘JeffTube’ present Epstein materials in a new light JeffTube lets you use a clone of YouTube to view videos released by the DOJ that relate to the investigation of Jeffrey Epstein.

The YouTube clone "JeffTube," from the project that produced Jmail, lets you watch all the DOJ's Epstien videos as if you were on YouTube san.com/cc/jmail-and...

Revealed: Epstein cultivated relationship with CBP officer, causing US investigation Guardian review of US justice department files reveals Epstein interacted with six CBP officers. The officer investigated denied any knowledge of trafficking underage girls

NEW: Jeffrey Epstein cultivated relationships with CBP officers at the airports he frequented.

Epstein emailed and texted with six CBP officers, invited them to his island, visited with them at the airport, and frequently sought to determine who was going to be on duty when he was traveling

An FBI ‘Asset’ Helped Run a Dark Web Site That Sold Fentanyl-Laced Drugs for Years A staffer of the Incognito dark web market was secretly controlled by the FBI—and still allegedly approved the sale of fentanyl-tainted pills, including those from a dealer linked to a confirmed death...

The FBI secretly controlled a staffer at a dark web drug market that did $100 million in sales. The informant allegedly approved the sale of drugs even after warnings they were tainted with fentanyl—including from a vendor whose pills led to a confirmed fatal overdose. www.wired.com/story/an-fbi...

Leaked Email Suggests Ring Plans to Expand ‘Search Party’ Surveillance Beyond Dogs Ring's CEO told staff the feature is “first for finding dogs,” indicating a plan to expand.

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Ring’s Founder Knows You Hated That Super Bowl Ad

Ring's founder is running defense in the media after his disastrous Super Bowl ad.

Yet he's still framing the "Search Party" feature as a way to find lost dogs, despite @404media.co obtaining an internal email where he says the feature will expand beyond dogs. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/b...

DHS Opens a Billion-Dollar Tab With Palantir "If you are interested in helping shape and deliver the next chapter of Palantir’s work across DHS, please reach out,” a Palantir executive wrote to employees about the massive purchasing agreement.

DHS now has a $1 billion tab with Palantir

Another incredible scoop from @makenakelly.bsky.social

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Leaked Email Suggests Ring Plans to Expand ‘Search Party’ Surveillance Beyond Dogs Ring's CEO told staff the feature is “first for finding dogs,” indicating a plan to expand.

Scoop: Ring's CEO told staff Search Party is not going to be just for dogs, according to a leaked email I obtained. Said it is "first for finding dogs" before suggesting it would be expanded to be used for crime:

www.404media.co/leaked-email...