social media
Understanding Illicit Ecosystems: Weaponizing Mainstream Apps and Social Infrastructure
As part of our ongoing series, we focus on the shared infrastructure that fuels threat actors; the intersection of mainstream social media, open-source messaging platforms, and gaming communities. The post Understanding Illicit ...
New Mexico’s Meta Ruling and Encryption
Mike Masnick points out that the recent New Mexico court ruling against Meta has some bad implications for end-to-end encryption, and security in general: If the “design choices create liability” framework seems ...
Meta & YouTube Found Negligent: A Turning Point for Big Tech?
A landmark jury verdict has found Meta and YouTube negligent in a social media addiction case, raising major questions about platform accountability and legal protections under Section 230. This episode covers the ...
Blocking children from social media is a badly executed good idea
Governments are each inventing their own flavor of an age based ban for social media. Is the cure worse than the disease? ...
TikTok Says No to End-to-End Encryption: Here’s Why That’s a Big Deal
In a move that bucks the entire industry trend, TikTok has confirmed it will not implement end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for direct messages on its platform — arguing that E2EE would make users ...
The Instagram API Scraping Crisis: When ‘Public’ Data Becomes a 17.5 Million User Breach
17.5 million Instagram accounts leaked through API scraping. Meta denies breach, but your data is on the dark web. Here's what actually happened ...
The Instagram API Scraping Crisis: When ‘Public’ Data Becomes a 17.5 Million User Breach
17.5 million Instagram accounts leaked through API scraping. Meta denies breach, but your data is on the dark web. Here's what actually happened ...
The Worm Turns – When the Hunter Becomes the Hunted Mass Surveillance and the Weaponization of the Data We Voluntarily Create
Explore how advancements in surveillance infrastructure and the democratization of intelligence have transformed espionage ...
On Moltbook
The MIT Technology Review has a good article on Moltbook, the supposed AI-only social network: Many people have pointed out that a lot of the viral comments were in fact posted by ...
Why Gen Z is Ditching Smartphones for Dumbphones
Younger generations are increasingly ditching smartphones in favor of “dumbphones”—simpler devices with fewer apps, fewer distractions, and less tracking. But what happens when you step away from a device that now functions ...
