Notices by Joseph Cox (josephcox@infosec.exchange)

New from 404 Media: we went through court records to see how three alleged Tesla vandals were identified. License plate readers, looking through Instagram, fingerprints on Molotov cocktails, physical surveillance. Comes as authorities say this is domestic terrorism https://www.404media.co/how-three-alleged-tesla-vandals-got-caught/

New: I spoke to a person whose name, address, etc is included on the site doxing Tesla owners. Confirmed they owned a Tesla, said bought in 2013 (before knowing what Musk would become). Said very worried about being doxed because lived through GamerGate https://www.404media.co/dogequest-site-claims-to-dox-tesla-owners-across-the-u-s/

[content warning for disturbing stuff if you don't wanna see that right now] Article on how AI slop is a brute force attack on the algorithms that control reality. Here's an example of an Instagram feed right now . Entire companies are pivoting to making this stuff https://www.404media.co/ai-slop-is-a-brute-force-attack-on-the-algorithms-that-control-reality/

New: TSA confirms to 404 Media that the agency has a credit card freeze for its bomb-sniffing dogs. Comes after an alleged internal email said that requests for dog food and vet visits were on hold.

https://www.404media.co/tsa-k9-bomb-sniffing-dogs-funding/

This is crazy interesting: Super Nintendos are getting *faster* as the hardware ages. We spoke to the person who discovered this and has been collecting more data. They even put a SNES in the freezer to test a hypothesis

https://www.404media.co/super-nintendo-hardware-is-running-faster-as-it-ages/

New from 404 Media: scientists from NASA, Yale, Stanford are already considering "scientific exile" by moving to a French university. French university says it has already gotten interest about the idea. We spoke to one researcher at a leading US university who has considered it

"We are witnessing a new brain drain."

https://www.404media.co/nasa-yale-and-stanford-scientists-consider-scientific-exile-french-university-says/

Cellebrite, the ubiquitous company that cops use to unlock phones and copy evidence, is now offering cops AI to summarize chat logs, audio messages, more. Civil liberties experts already concerned about AI hallucinating for cops https://www.404media.co/cellebrite-is-using-ai-to-summarize-chat-logs-and-audio-from-seized-mobile-phones/

New from 404 Media: buying this $250 ID from the tropical nation of Palau allows you to bypass U.S. crypto laws. The law blocks certain exchanges and limits trades. I bought the ID, verified it works for making accounts on crypto exchanges. Traders are doing this.

https://www.404media.co/buying-a-250-residency-card-from-a-tropical-island-let-me-bypass-u-s-crypto-laws/

New from 404 Media: all 50 states have introduced right to repair legislation. Not all have passed, but it's just a massive milestone for the right to repair movement that just a few years ago was demonized by big tech https://www.404media.co/all-50-states-have-now-introduced-right-to-repair-legislation/

New from 404 Media: a Musk ally has demanded administrative access to Notify.gov, a system that lets the government text the public. The access would give them large swathes of the publics' personal data too. A worker has resigned in protest rather than give access https://www.404media.co/musk-ally-demands-admin-access-to-system-that-lets-government-text-the-public/

New from 404 Media: anyone can push updates to the Doge.gov site. Two sources independently found the issue, one made their own decision to deface the site. "THESE 'EXPERTS' LEFT THEIR DATABASE OPEN."

https://www.404media.co/anyone-can-push-updates-to-the-doge-gov-website-2/

New from 404 Media: inside the gov meeting where Musk ally laid out plans for data sharing across gov/AI. We got audio. In the call an employee pushed back and said the plan would be “illegal.” Musk ally said “we should still push forward and see what we can do.” https://www.404media.co/things-are-going-to-get-intense-how-a-musk-ally-plans-to-push-ai-on-the-government/

New from 404 Media: 'forbidden words'. Github commits reveal how software engineers working on behalf of the government are purging federal databases. Shows not just removing terms, but building blunt-force tools to remove banned material https://www.404media.co/forbidden-words-github-reveals-how-software-engineers-are-purging-federal-databases/

Huh, a new declassified CIA guide to sabotaging fascism has suddenly gone viral https://www.404media.co/declassified-cia-guide-to-sabotaging-fascism-is-suddenly-viral/

OpenAI is furious that DeepSeek might have stolen all of the data OpenAI stole from all of us

https://www.404media.co/openai-furious-deepseek-might-have-stolen-all-the-data-openai-stole-from-us/

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg “loved” an AI-generated slop image of a horse made out of bread posted by a spam page that also posts AI-generated images of amputated children and circumvents Facebook’s algorithm to link users offsite to ad-laden AI-generated content farms https://www.404media.co/zuckerberg-loves-ai-slop-image-from-spam-account-that-posts-amputated-children/

A bug in Cloudflare (and just the nature of how CDNs work) let an attacker learn the broad location of Discord, Signal, Twitter users by just sending them an image, according to a security researcher. It works because you can then check which Cloudflare data center cached the image https://www.404media.co/cloudflare-issue-can-leak-chat-app-users-broad-location/

New from 404 Media: Meta is laying the narrative groundwork for Trump's mass deportations. Meta now says users can call migrants pieces of trash, vomit, etc. Multiple experts drew parallels to when Facebook contributed to a genocide in Myanmar. Now U.S. https://www.404media.co/meta-is-laying-the-narrative-groundwork-for-trumps-mass-deportations-2/

New: this OnlyFans model publishes her machine learning explainers to both YouTube and Pornhub. Although YouTube may get a million views, that'll generate around $300. The same content posted to Pornhub, with ~30k views, makes $1000. We spoke to her https://www.404media.co/why-this-onlyfans-model-posts-machine-learning-explainers-to-pornhub/

New: the vast majority of traffic, something like 90%, to a nonconsensual nudify app is coming from Meta platforms like Instagram. The nudify app pays for Instagram ads, Instagram gets cash, and drives people to the app. Meta directly helping spread it https://www.404media.co/instagram-ads-send-this-nudify-site-90-percent-of-its-traffic/