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Hacking/crime/privacy journalist. Author of DARK WIRE. Co-founder of @404mediaco. Signal: joseph.404 Email: joseph@404media.co

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1Feb 5, '24New: inside the underground site where "neural networks" churn out fake IDs - I tested, made two IDs in minutes - used one to successfully bypass the identity verification check on124×3.6M10k2.2k6.8k
2Feb 23, '23New: we proved it could be done. I used an AI replica of my voice to break into my bank account. The AI tricked the bank into thinking it was talking to me. Could access my balance50.1×1.4M4.9k1.9k742
3Feb 5, '25New from 404 Media: Employees working at DOGE have been ordered to stop using Slack while lawyers attempt to transition the agency to one that is not subject to the Freedom of Info48.1×1.4M4.9k2.2k780
4Sep 20, '23New: this is crazy. The top Google image search result for "tank man" right now is an AI-generated "selfie" of the man. Shows that as AI content becomes more and more widespread, t43.9×1.3M3.9k1k237
5Jul 11, '23Today at VICE I was unable to pull a court record, which costs 10 cents, because the company isn't paying bills Meanwhile so many execs, some which led VICE to bankruptcy, make $7034.3×991k4.6k935211
6Mar 14, '24New: Pornhub just pulled out of Texas. This is the message people see when connecting to any of the network's sites (Pornhub, YouPorn, and Brazzers) from a Texas IP address32.9×951k1.2k334196
7Feb 14, '25New from 404 Media: anyone can push updates to the site. Two sources independently found the issue, one made their own decision to deface the site. "THESE 'EXPERTS' LEFT THEIR DATA32.1×927k9k2.2k1.2k
8Jan 4, '24Download the newly unsealed Jeffrey Epstein documents here: For sake of public access, we've downloaded the docs and put them onto 404 Media as a .zip for you to download for free,32×924k1.7k521895
9Jan 9, '25New from 404 Media: “It’s total chaos internally at Meta right now.” We spoke to five current Meta employees, said staff are furious about Meta's content policy changes. Especially31.8×918k1.2k308160
10Nov 10, '23New: multiple sources, including executives, explain why sites like Jezebel are being shut down despite being very popular. The "brand safety" industry has created a paranoid envir31.1×897k1.6k599237
11Jul 12, '24Breaking: hackers stole call and text records for "nearly all" AT&T customers. Shows which phone numbers a customer called or texted. A staggering and unprecedented data breach30.9×893k2.7k1.3k692
12Nov 7, '24New from 404 Media: police freaking out at iPhones stored for forensic examination mysteriously rebooting themselves. This makes brute forcing much harder. Cops hypothesize Apple p29×836k3.3k5271k
13Oct 9, '24New: some Wikipedia editors have formed WikiProject AI Cleanup, “a collaboration to combat the increasing problem of unsourced, poorly-written AI-generated content on Wikipedia.”28.7×827k4k638264
14Oct 2, '24New from 404 Media: someone put facial recognition on Meta's smart glasses to instantly dox strangers. You look at them, sends face to a facial recognition tool. LLM infers name, s27.9×806k4.3k1.6k2k
15Oct 18, '23New: verified Twitter 'OSINT' accounts are destroying the Israel-Palestine information ecosystem. What used to be a network of reliable experts has been taken over by profit and cl26.5×764k3.3k1.1k359
16Oct 18, '24New from 404 Media: we've found exactly how a Musk-funded PAC is microtargeting Muslims & Jews with opposing messages. Happening with adverts on Snapchat; digging through data 24.2×698k5.8k2.8k860
17Dec 6, '24New: multiple major health insurance companies (Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, Caresource, Medica, Elevance Health) have taken down pages on their websites which listed their leade23.5×678k8.1k1.5k628
18Sep 25, '23New: a TikTok account is using facial recognition to dox random people simply for clout with its millions of viewers. Takes requests from the comments - spoke to multiple victims, 18.6×537k1.8k803491
19Oct 20, '23New: an incredible court record pulls back the curtain on a $30 million dollar underground Bitcoin exchange running for years in the heart of New York. Massive bags of cash, drive-18.3×530k1.7k424521
20Aug 5, '24New from 404 Media: we got a massive leak from inside Nvidia (emails, Slack chats, documents) which show how it created a yet-to-be-released AI model. The leak shows that Nvidia sc18×519k3.4k1.1k802
21Nov 2, '23New: AI cameras took over one small American town. Now they're everywhere. Hundreds of docs show how Fusus brings usually separate camera feeds (doorbells, CCTV, drones) into one c17.9×516k884351393
22Sep 23, '24New from 404 Media: in a massive shift, Telegram says it now *will* provide user data to authorities in response to legal orders. Includes IP addresses and phone numbers. Yesterday15.5×446k1.5k737250
23Oct 23, '24New: inside the US government-bought tool that can track phones at abortion clinics. Called Locate X, it tracks phones around the world without a warrant. Leakers showed it in acti15.3×441k4k1.8k1.5k
24Dec 4, '23New: asking ChatGPT to repeat words "forever" is now a terms of service violation. This comes after Google researchers used the tactic to get ChatGPT to reveal its training data, i14.8×427k1.8k257196
25Apr 23, '24This is the story of when I first realized how throughly compromised ANOM, the encrypted chat app the FBI secretly ran, really was. It was the moment I saw a mass of messages and d14.6×422k1.5k1521.2k
26Oct 10, '23New from 404 Media: we finally got the dash cam footage of the two LAPD cops who ignored a robbery in progress to play Pokemon Go. Shows they sped through residential areas, drove 13.5×389k1.7k396220
27Apr 13, '23New: the bombs weren't real. Neither was the voice. We've traced some of the nationwide swatting wave to a specific swatting-as-a-service. Uses syntheiszed voices to target schools13.2×381k1k456165
28Nov 27, '23New: Plex, the streaming service/self-hosted media server, is leaking users’ viewing histories to one another, including porn. Because of a new feature "I can see that one of my fr12.1×348k866181152
29Aug 22, '23News: I have quit VICE. Me and a small group of Motherboard writers have launched our own company: . We'll continue impactful journalism. If you've ever wanted to support my work, 11.4×328k1.5k430143
30May 17, '23New: Homeland Security is using an AI-powered tool to analyze the social media of U.S. citizens and refugees. The tool can link a person's Social Security number to their social me10.9×316k927551234
31May 9, '24New: OpenAI—which has scraped the internet and fed copyrighted works into its own products—has filed a copyright claim over the OpenAI logo being used on the ChatGPT subreddit "It 10.7×310k1.6k296166
32Jan 20, '25New from 404 Media: meet GeoSpy, a powerful AI tool that lets cops (& stalkers) geolocate photos in seconds. Trained on millions of images, it picks out soil, architecture, etc10.4×300k1.7k5381.1k
33Jul 25, '24New: a leaked document obtained by 404 Media shows that billion dollar AI video generator 'Runway' had a company-wide effort to rip off YouTube videos without permission, as well a10.4×299k1.4k573249
34Mar 7, '24New from 404 Media: hackers are doxing doctors, gaining access to drug ordering platforms then buying (and selling) massive quantities of oxy, Adderall, more. Not just series of br10.2×295k2k554676
35Dec 11, '23New: err, a Russian/Israeli economist somehow flew into LAX with: - no passport - no record of him on the plane Entities who are confused include: - DHS - FBI - airlines - LAX - th10.1×293k1k169190
36Jul 24, '24New from 404 Media: Google is now the only search engine that works on Reddit thanks to its AI deal. Try to search for Reddit results with Bing, DuckDuckGo, or a bunch of others yo10.1×293k1.1k480186
37Feb 7, '23New: spoke to actors + unions across video games, animation, more about voice generating AI. Contracts that take rights from actors to later produce more lines with AI are already 10.1×291k91542264
38Aug 30, '23New: I tracked the precise movements of an NYC subway rider. Saw what specific time they got on and at what station. It became obvious which station was nearest to their home. This10×289k1.1k446144
39Aug 22, '23New—hackers have access to a powerful chain of data that lets them dox nearly anyone in US for $15. With credit cards your address goes to the credit bureaus. That is then sold to 10.0×289k1.1k424568
40Apr 17, '24New from 404 Media: a spy site is scraping Discord, archiving users’ messages/activity across servers including what voice channels they join, and then selling access to that data 9.8×284k1.9k555680
41Jul 19, '24New: to fix the ongoing Crowdstrike issue, where Windows users are locked out of their machines, Microsoft has published some advice for those using virtual machines on Azure: rebo9.7×279k870274125
42Nov 26, '24New: Musk's X filed a highly unusual objection in The Onion's bid to buy InfoWars, arguing that X has “superior ownership” of all accounts on X and shouldn't be given to The Onion.9.4×272k2.5k736292
43Aug 29, '23New from 404 Media: AI-generated mushroom foraging books are all over Amazon. This is not a game—if someone eats the wrong mushroom because of a ChatGPT generated book it is life o9.3×268k1k519125
44Apr 2, '24It's finally here—my book on how the FBI secretly ran its own tech startup to wiretap the world. DARK WIRE reveals its true scale & stakes for the first time Preorder now for b9.2×265k1.5k325695
45Dec 5, '23New huge AI story from 404 Media: leaked docs show Civitai, hot AI startup funded by VC firm a16z, generated images that could be child pornography. Even after this discovery, Octo9.0×259k788334164
46Nov 19, '24New: the company behind Pokemon Go has announced it is using data collected by its millions of players to build an AI model that can navigate the real world, and could be used for 8.9×257k1.4k496367
47Nov 9, '24New from 404 Media: we've confirmed that Apple quietly introduced code that automatically reboots an iPhone if it hasn't been unlocked after a period of time. This is why cops are 8.7×250k2.2k417424
48Jun 13, '22Texas police are refusing to release the bodycam footage of the Uvlade school shooting to Motherboard because they claim it could be used by other shooters to determine "weaknesses8.4×05.1k1.4k371
49Jun 26, '24New from 404 Media: the ID verification service for TikTok, Uber, X, and many more tech companies exposed real peoples' driver licenses. As we move towards an internet forcing us t8.3×241k1.1k558154
50Sep 2, '21New: an activist made a script to flood the Texas abortion 'whistleblower' website with fake info. When they IP banned him, he made an iOS shortcut so essentially anyone with an iP8.3×06.8k2.9k386
51Sep 18, '24New from 404 Media: LinkedIn is training AI on users before updating its terms of service. People noticed a new setting on generative AI. I asked LinkedIn, they said they're updati8.2×237k984440124
52Dec 15, '23New: we’ve found second company that says it is using microphone data to target ads. Tiny 3 man outfit in New Hampshire. They’re deleting product descriptions but we got Google cac8.1×235k1.6k524458
54Jun 4, '24It's finally time: DARK WIRE, my book on how the FBI secretly ran its own tech startup to wiretap the world, is out *today*. Here is WIRED's adaption of that story following the cr7.7×223k1.4k396714
55Mar 18, '24New: multiple published scientific papers include language that appears to have been generated by AI-tools like ChatGPT. Search for "as of my last knowledge update" on Google Schol7.3×210k898326129
56Oct 12, '23It is done. 85,000 words on what I think is the most important crime/surveillance story of the 21st century so far—how the FBI secretly ran an encrypted app for criminals that grew7.2×208k1.6k136475
57Jun 3, '24New from 404 Media: we’ve obtained an internal Google database detailing thousands of privacy/security incidents. Everything from Street View collecting license plate data, to chil7.1×205k991436213
58Jan 7, '25New 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 w6.9×199k1.7k643189
59Sep 28, '23New from 404 Media: those food delivery robots that are armed with cameras and driving all over sidewalks in LA? They're providing filmed footage to the LAPD, according to internal6.7×194k1.1k531101
60Sep 17, '24New: Snapchat is reserving the right to use your own, AI-generated likeness in ads that can then target you. The setting is on by default according to our tests6.6×191k1.2k525280
62Jul 24, '23New: encryption used in police and military radios around the world has been scrutinized by outside researchers for the first time. The researchers found what they believe is an in6.3×183k1k351237
63Feb 21, '24ChatGPT out of nowhere started speaking complete gibberish on Tuesday. Multiple users reporting bizarre non-sensical answers. If the biggest AI product can shit the bed like this, 6.3×183k86819470
64Mar 13, '24New from 404 Media: two of the biggest safe lock manufacturers have backdoor codes. Available to police and a target for spies. Turns out, the DoD knows about the codes, bans the l6.1×175k1.3k443280
65May 23, '24New from 404 Media: a hacker targeted a scam call center, broke in, then emailed the scam victims to warn them they’d been scammed. Also stole source code of the scammer’s tools. H6.0×174k1.9k379293
66Jul 8, '24This is wild: Ticketmaster introduced 'non-transferrable' tickets, so resales would have to happen on its own platform (further monopolization). Now scalpers have worked with hacke5.4×157k1.1k376155
68Jan 6, '25New 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 5.0×143k1.1k466191
69May 3, '22New: companies selling location data on visits to abortion clinics. We know because we just bought some data for $160. Could be used to see clinics being visited by people from acr4.5×02.8k1.8k235
70Jan 2, '24New from 404 Media: a 13 year old has become the first person in the world to beat the NES version of Tetris. They reached Tetris’ Kill Screen; previously only an AI had achieved t4.4×128k1.1k20175
71Jan 21, '25A 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 4.0×117k1.8k497542
72Nov 19, '24New from 404 Media: we've obtained and published the list of iPhone and Android devices secretive phone unlocking tech Graykey was able, or unable, to get data from recently. Unpre4.0×116k933252416
73Sep 24, '24New from 404 Media: Google is serving AI images of mushrooms when users search for some species. Very risky, potentially fatal error for foragers who are trying to find what mushro4.0×116k95539492
74Aug 30, '22New: Walmart has been selling 30TB and other SSDs at an insanely good price. Turns out, its just two SD cards with firmware designed to trick the PC into displaying much more stora3.9×04.1k842205
75Jul 22, '24New from 404 Media: the DHS has bought a dog-like robot that can DDoS internet of things items inside peoples' homes. "Carries an onboard computer and antenna array that will allow3.9×112k856378181
76Aug 29, '22'Girls Who Code' Teams Up With Tomahawk Missile Maker Raytheon Girls Who Code is a nonprofit that aims to close the gender gap in tech. It has various clubs and programs that seek 3.7×03.1k622217
77Jan 27, '22New: this NFT will steal your IP address. Viewing this and some other NFTs on marketplace OpenSea will send your IP to the NFT creator, because OpenSea lets people load custom code3.7×02.8k914296
78Apr 29, '24Today the FCC has fined US telcos $200 million for illegally sharing phone location data. This comes after a NYTimes investigation into how corrupt law enforcement were using this 3.6×105k1.2k468164
79Sep 19, '24New: a project analyzing human language usage by scraping the web is shutting down because "generative AI has polluted the data." It's going to become much harder to analyze human 3.4×98k977414153
80Nov 26, '24Before we launched 404 Media, "allegedly very smart people" (as Emanuel calls them) told us to our faces it would take us years to build to one million views a month. We just cross3.3×95k1.4k13969
81Feb 22, '24Today is the 6 month anniversary of me and a group of friends quitting corporate media and launching 404 Media. I can now say with confidence that 404 Media is the most impactful t3.1×88k1.1k126103
82Aug 1, '24I'll be speaking at #DEFCON about FBI's secretly backdoored encrypted chat app that it used to wiretap the world. I'll show never-before-published images of the FBI's dashboard for2.9×82k1k198343
83Jul 7, '22New: we've obtained the code the FBI used to backdoor an encrypted messaging app, and we're publishing parts of it today. Code shows app created a 'ghost' contact that hid itself f2.9×02k858520
84Nov 12, '24New from 404 Media: got hundreds of internal Secret Service emails where it said tracking peoples' location without a warrant was okay because citizens have clicked 'accept' on app2.6×74k929424245
85Sep 1, '22New: here is the user manual for a mass surveillance tool that U.S. local cops are actively using. Based on location data harvested from ordinary apps installed on peoples' phones.2.4×01.5k759521
86Jun 27, '22New: Facebook is removing posts and temporarily banning people who say that they will mail abortion pills to those who need it, or even just state the fact they can be mailed. In 22.1×01.3k81981
87Sep 20, '21New: Amazon has AI cameras installed in its delivery vans; decide whether drivers get money. But the cameras are flawed, penalizing drivers when ~they~ get cut off by other cars, m1.9×01.4k639100
88Oct 14, '21New: journalist clicks 'view source' on a public government webpage, finds government site is exposing SSNs. Waits until the issue is fixed before publishing their story. Governor 1.9×01.5k57668
89Dec 12, '24Person 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 desi1.7×49k930234145
90Nov 19, '24The Financial Times calls DARK WIRE, my book on how the FBI secretly ran its own tech company to wiretap the world, one of the best books of 2024: You can buy your copy, audiobook,1.7×48k2434198
91Oct 22, '20New: Vince Ramos wanted Phantom Secure to be the Uber of privacy-focused phones—flood the market and figure out laws later. Then the FBI investigated him. Based on Phantom sources,1.6×0982337432
92Sep 21, '22New: the US military has spent millions of dollars on a powerful internet monitoring tool that includes browsing data, email data, cookies, more. Data is worldwide, covers 90%+ of 1.5×0929523210
93Jun 27, '22New: we asked tech companies if they would provide data to police about users + abortions Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, TikTok, Google, Amazon, Discord, Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile,1.4×01k52456
94Feb 28, '22New: electric vehicle charging stations in Russia are not working and instead are displaying the messages "GLORY TO UKRAINE," "PUTIN IS A DICKHEAD." Seemingly possible because char1.3×01.2k39236
95Oct 21, '21New: lot of people have noted the similarities between Trump's new social network 'Truth Social' and Mastodon, the free open-source social media platform. Spoke to Mastodon's found1.3×096940948
96Sep 1, '22Well, it happened: local cops have access to a tool called Fog Reveal that is based on location data harvested from ordinary smartphone apps. Cops using without warrants to see wha1.3×0867455132
97Nov 11, '22Guess I'll tweet this before Twitter completely implodes. Netflix has acquired the rights for my forthcoming book DARK WIRE, on how the FBI secretly ran a tech company for organize1.1×01.2k16895
99Aug 16, '22Personal news: I'm writing a book on one of the craziest law enforcement stings ever, where the FBI secretly ran its own tech startup called Anom & used it to wiretap hundreds 0.9×095612981

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