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/
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Joseph Cox (josephcox@infosec.exchange)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 07:09:07 JST Joseph Cox 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/
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Joseph Cox (josephcox@infosec.exchange)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 23:26:49 JST Joseph Cox 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/
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Joseph Cox (josephcox@infosec.exchange)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 02:54:22 JST Joseph Cox New from 404 Media: Meta has deleted trans and nonbinary messenger themes. Comes amid Meta's now allowing users to target trans and gay people, and as Musk says Facebook lifting restrictions on "mainstream discourse"
https://www.404media.co/meta-deletes-trans-and-nonbinary-messenger-themes/
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Joseph Cox (josephcox@infosec.exchange)'s status on Friday, 10-Jan-2025 06:09:15 JST Joseph Cox New from 404 Media: data hacked from location giant Gravy reveals thousands of ordinary apps hijacked to steal your location data. Candy Crush, MyFitnessPal, Tinder. Period trackers, prayer apps. Because of how data collected, apps may not even know https://www.404media.co/candy-crush-tinder-myfitnesspal-see-the-thousands-of-apps-hijacked-to-spy-on-your-location/
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Joseph Cox (josephcox@infosec.exchange)'s status on Friday, 10-Jan-2025 03:59:21 JST Joseph Cox Thank you Gizmodo for including my perspective on why Musk is an ARPG poser and is probably cheating at Diablo IV, Path of Exile 2. Very very on brand.
https://gizmodo.com/path-of-exile-2-players-call-bullshit-on-elon-musks-video-game-stream-2000548126
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Joseph Cox (josephcox@infosec.exchange)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 08:03:37 JST Joseph Cox 404 Media is back for the new year, and just *today* we have published multiple scoops with only four of us reporting, writing, editing.
First: Facebook is censoring its own employees' criticism of hire of UFC head, according to internal messages we got https://www.404media.co/facebook-deletes-internal-employee-criticism-of-new-board-member-dana-white/
Second: hackers have claimed a massive breach of location data company Gravy. This is a beating heart of worldwide phone monitoring, and provides data to the U.S. government. It's a "nightmare" scenario https://www.404media.co/hackers-claim-massive-breach-of-location-data-giant-threaten-to-leak-data/
Third today: police automatic license plate readers are accidentally exposing live feeds to the open internet. So a privacy advocate built a tool that automatically scans the plates and puts them in a spreadsheet to highlight the risk these cameras pose https://www.404media.co/researcher-turns-insecure-license-plate-cameras-into-open-source-surveillance-tool/
Fourth: People are using AI video generator Runway to post extremely violent Minionfied videos to social media. Unfortunately what people are actually using AI for! https://www.404media.co/minion-gore-videos-use-ai-to-post-murder-to-instagram-tiktok-and-youtube/
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Joseph Cox (josephcox@infosec.exchange)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 02:08:13 JST Joseph Cox This is the "nightmare scenario all privacy advocates have feared and warned about." Could leak the locations of people who realistically had no idea they were being tracked through ordinary apps or ads https://www.404media.co/hackers-claim-massive-breach-of-location-data-giant-threaten-to-leak-data/
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Joseph Cox (josephcox@infosec.exchange)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 02:08:13 JST Joseph Cox New from 404 Media: hackers claim massive breach of location data giant Gravy. Gravy gives data to Venntel, which sells it to U.S. government (FBI, DHS, etc). Data includes customer lists, and even peoples' location data. Hackers threatening to publish it https://www.404media.co/hackers-claim-massive-breach-of-location-data-giant-threaten-to-leak-data/
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Joseph Cox (josephcox@infosec.exchange)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 01:36:50 JST Joseph Cox New from 404 Media: Facebook is deleting internal employee criticism of its new board hire UFC president and CEO Dana White. Facebook also deleting internal employee posts asking why the first ones deleted https://www.404media.co/facebook-deletes-internal-employee-criticism-of-new-board-member-dana-white/
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Joseph Cox (josephcox@infosec.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 08:41:28 JST Joseph Cox New: Instagram has begun testing a feature in which Meta’s AI will automatically generate images of users in various situations and put them into that user’s feed. We confirmed with Meta it's real. https://www.404media.co/instagram-begins-randomly-showing-users-ai-generated-images-of-themselves/
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Joseph Cox (josephcox@infosec.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 05:27:10 JST Joseph Cox New from 404 Media: Telegram has handed U.S. authorities data on thousands of its users. An absolutely massive spike in data turn overs after the arrest of Telegram CEO Durov.
Was ~100 impacted users to U.S. authorities in October. Now 2253.
https://www.404media.co/telegram-hands-u-s-authorities-data-on-thousands-of-users/
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Joseph Cox (josephcox@infosec.exchange)'s status on Saturday, 04-Jan-2025 03:57:53 JST Joseph Cox New: Meta says it is deleting those AI accounts. 404 Media confirmed that many of them being deleted at the moment https://www.404media.co/metas-ai-profiles-are-indistinguishable-from-terrible-spam-that-took-over-facebook/
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Joseph Cox (josephcox@infosec.exchange)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 00:53:22 JST Joseph Cox Some people have asked that 404 Media moves from a magic link system (to login you are emailed a link to click) to a user/password system. We're four journalists trying to spend as much time as possible doing journalism. We don't want your password https://www.404media.co/we-dont-want-your-password-3/
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Joseph Cox (josephcox@infosec.exchange)'s status on Monday, 30-Dec-2024 23:31:06 JST Joseph Cox New from 404 Media: the Secret Service admits it never actually checked if people really consented to being tracked by a location monitoring tool, like it claimed. Under a section saying what steps had it taken to ensure consent, the agency wrote "None"
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Joseph Cox (josephcox@infosec.exchange)'s status on Friday, 20-Dec-2024 20:40:32 JST Joseph Cox Researchers found its possible to automate the jailbreaking of AI models at scale. You just need to type like the SpongeBob meme https://www.404media.co/apparently-this-is-how-you-jailbreak-ai/
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Joseph Cox (josephcox@infosec.exchange)'s status on Friday, 20-Dec-2024 02:24:20 JST Joseph Cox New from 404 Media: An entity claiming to be United Healthcare is sending bogus copyright claims to internet platforms to get Luigi Mangione fan art taken off the internet https://www.404media.co/copyright-abuse-is-getting-luigi-mangione-merch-removed-from-the-internet/
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Joseph Cox (josephcox@infosec.exchange)'s status on Friday, 13-Dec-2024 21:44:58 JST Joseph Cox Person makes website that lets you take selfies through NYC's network of traffic cameras. NYC Department of Transportation sends cease and desist. Creator sticks the cease and desist to a pole and holds it up to one of the cameras to take a photo of it https://www.404media.co/traffic-cam-photobooth-cease-and-desist/
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Joseph Cox (josephcox@infosec.exchange)'s status on Thursday, 12-Dec-2024 03:15:04 JST Joseph Cox New from 404 Media: Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg has rage quit a Wordpress community Slack after court injunction. “It's hard to imagine wanting to continue to working on WordPress after this,” he wrote in that Slack https://www.404media.co/wordpress-wp-engine-preliminary-injunction/
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Joseph Cox (josephcox@infosec.exchange)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Dec-2024 08:45:06 JST Joseph Cox New from 404 Media: a location data firm is offering to help cops track targets via their doctor visits. Cops fill out form about their target, including doctor's address. Fog Data Science will then map out person's movements using massive bank of data https://www.404media.co/location-data-firm-offers-to-help-cops-track-targets-via-doctor-visits/
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