SCOOP — Body camera footage obtained as a result of my lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan PD confirms DOGE and the Trump administration openly admitted they were entering private property when they raided the building on March 17, 2025. That didn't stop MPD from breaking down the doors.
My report:
I'm sorry, I spat out my tea reading this line, "We will counter the spread of the surveillance state and authoritarian technologies that monitor and repress citizens."
*gestures wildly in literally every direction* What a crock of utter horseshit!
Couple things here:
1. What the fuck
2. I am allllllmost more offended by the suggestion that I would give this shitbox edit than having my identity stolen
3. The CEO is scheduled to be on Decoder soon and we will see if they back out!
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
New, by me: Health tech giant TriZetto has confirmed that more than 3.4 million people’s personal and health information was stolen in a 2024 cyberattack, which the company failed to detect for almost a year.
In every Republican presidency of my lifetime there's been a recession and a new war in the Middle East.
MS NOW confirms Corey Lewandowski is also out at DHS.
And this is the problem, the rush to market, the vibe coding tread, the need to beat the competitors ends up with vendors not meeting the basic standard of protecting the customer.
NEW: The FBI said it is investigating a hack on its networks.
The breach affected the FBI's systems to manage wiretaps and surveillace requests, according to CNN.
techcrunch.com/2026/03/05/f...
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-...
NEW: Italian prosecutors confirm that the phone of journalist Francesco Cancellato was hacked with Paragon spyware at the same time as the phones of two immigration activists.
The Italian government admitted the hack on the activists, but said it wasn't behind Cancellato's hack. So who was?
Half of the zero-day bugs that Google tracked last year were found in buggy enterprise tech, including VPNs, firewalls, and routers, which are *meant* to protect large corporations from intruders. (And yet, the irony.)
It's also basic flaws are getting big companies hacked.
NOEM TAKING QUESTIONS - DOES NOT APPEAR TO KNOW SHE WAS FIRED
Meta is facing a new lawsuit over its AI smart glasses, after a news investigation found subcontractors are reviewing footage from customers' glasses, which "included sensitive content, like nudity, people having sex, and using the toilet."
The amount of illegal material on Meta's servers... 👀
One woman who called the State Department helpline looking for help said they told her to "stop ranting and raving" and hung up on her.
Another woman said they asked her how to spell Oman.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/t...
U.S. and EU police say they've taken down LeakBase, “one of the world’s largest online forums for cybercriminals” for sharing stolen passwords and hacking tools.
The site now displays a seizure notice.
It's absolutely insane to me that in this day and age a company would reject end-to-end encryption so that cops and feds can actively read people's messages. It also puts that same data at risk from hackers. But that's TikTok, under new U.S. ownership.
NSO has spent years lobbying in the US to overturn spyware restrictions, writes Tech Policy Press fellow Vas Panagiotopoulos. Now it’s hired former US ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, to help rebuild its business and recruit US law enforcement customers. Will these efforts pay off?
The data from your Meta Ray Bans is used to train Meta's AI, which most people don't understand means that humans are looking at the most intimate details of their lives. www.svd.se/a/K8nrV4/met...
New from me: TikTok won't protect DMs with controversial privacy tech, saying it would put users at risk. This came about from a safety briefing at TikTok where execs say a deliberate decision was taken to protect users, especially young ones from grooming & other harm www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
absolutely stunning.
my cat, Theo, grey and white Russian blue, laying on the floor, almost collapsed, on my foot, curled up with his paws up and looking me straight in the camera, like "draw me like one of your french girls"
Seems like the whole world is melting down so I'm gonna break my longstanding rule of not posting my feet to the internet to post this snap of my incredibly handsome loaf cat.
Security researchers say exploits used by governments to hack into Apple iPhones have been found used by cybercriminals. They warned of an emerging market for "second hand" exploits.
A rare glimmer of good news.
Free newsletter: The AI bubble's info war demands that we believe in things that aren’t true, like the economic fundamentals of the AI industry are perfectly sound, or that Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are anything other than warmongers.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-bubble-is-an-information-war/
We have obtained videos showing the software in a live-scenario, at metro stations in Teheran. We have contracts, and we have had a look at the code, built by the Russian company Ntechlab.
www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
NEW: There have been reports and some statements from government officials that suggest cyber operations played a role in the first days of the war in Iran.
At the end of the day this war is about dropping bombs, but these reports show cyber can have an important supporting role in IRL conflict.
New from 404 Media: CBP tapped into the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples' movements, according to an internal DHS document. Shows for the first time DHS tracked phones via process for putting ads in ordinary apps—video games, fitness apps, many more www.404media.co/cbp-tapped-i...
A lot of chatter about cyberwar, Iranian retaliation, disruption going around but, for the second war against Tehran in less than a year, Iranian hackers have gone "almost completely dark" -- this time even more starkly than in the 2025 war www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
In @svenskadagbladet1.bsky.social and @goteborgsposten.bsky.social investigation, the people behind Meta’s smart glasses testify to the hidden stream of privacy-sensitive data that is fed straight into the tech giant’s systems.
www.svd.se/a/K8nrV4/met...
“I don’t think people realized how ill-served we, the American public, were by having someone that was this unserious, just asleep at the wheel in an agency leadership position like this,” said one of the four officials. www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
