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Aug 22 • 7 tweets • 3 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
News: 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, this is the time. Please subscribe monthly/yearly 404media.co
nytimes.com/2023/08/22/bus…
We have an entire week of insane stories for you. First, I expose a secret weapon hackers are using that lets them instantly dox nearly anyone in America for $15. I tested it myself on a target. Data from credit bureaus is now in hands of violent criminals 404media.co/the-secret-wea…
As NYTimes reports, I quit VICE because of the massive salaries executives made while I was unable to pay cents to even access a court record. With , we not only have editorial independence, but financial independence too. We won't waste money like that. 404media.co
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Back to the stories today. @jason_koebler writes about the overlooked issue of "condensation death" in peoples' $550 AirPods Max. They can malfunction, or suddenly stop working entirely, because of users’ sweat or condensation. A right to repair issue.
404media.co/airpods-max/
@jason_koebler We're are beyond deep fakes now. @emanuelmaiberg goes into the AI porn marketplace where everything and everyone is for sale. An entire business model around people generating AI porn of anything people can imagine. We already got a company removed 404media.co/inside-the-ai-…
@jason_koebler @emanuelmaiberg We don't shy away from sex work or the world of sex more broadly. This is fascinating from @samleecole: in 2023, almost every vibrating sex toy on the market today contains the same type of motor that's inside the Nintendo 64 Rumble Pak 404media.co/sex-toy-vibrat…
@jason_koebler @emanuelmaiberg @samleecole We are going to do a *TON* of public records focused work. Here's a fun one to start. We got the incident report for the Boston police slide incident. The report says UNKNOWN SUSPECT💀. FOIA focused content will be free to access 404media.co/cop-slide-inci…

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May 17
New: 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 media and smartphone location data. According to internal doc we're publishing vice.com/en/article/m7b…
Here's the data available to Customs and Border Protection: name, date of birth, address, usernames, email address, phone number, social media content, images, IP address, Social Security number, driver’s license number, employment history, location data vice.com/en/article/m7b… Image
Here is the full CBP document you can read yourself: documentcloud.org/documents/2381…
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May 11
New: today we pull back the curtain on one of the most important tech companies for organized crime called No. 1 BC

We found its the encrypted phone of choice for the Italian mafia. Former sellers, industry sources, sensitive docs

"Big on the market"
vice.com/en/article/88x…
The story starts with Bartolo Bruzzaniti, an alleged member of the mafia, organizing a cocaine shipment from Colombia to Italy. Colombian suppliers pack the drugs into shipping container, corrupt port worker on mafia payroll waves through, avoids X-rays vice.com/en/article/88x… Image
In intercepted messages Bruzzaniti told his brother to go get something urgently, something that was crucial to the cocaine getting in. That was the No. 1 BC encrypted phone. On there, a contact sent part of the serial number of the shipping container vice.com/en/article/88x… Image
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May 10
New: this is wild. Frank Ocean fans were in a frenzy over newly leaked music from the reclusive artist. The leaker sold some tracks for thousands of dollars to collectors.

But most were fake, AI-generated. Communities now in disarray over what to trust vice.com/en/article/z3m…
I spoke to the scammer who sold these AI-generated tracks for thousands. I grabbed some copies from forums, the scammer provided me recordings of the AI tracks. Here is one of them (I'm fighting Soundcloud to keep them up, keeps removing) soundcloud.com/user-233140213…
It started when the scammer hired a musician to create around 9 fake Frank Ocean tracks. The scammer then went to a music leaking forum, where people often trade rare/unreleased music, and published a snippet. Immediately, people believed it vice.com/en/article/z3m… Image
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Apr 13
New: 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 schools, more. The automation of swatting tech threatens to make it more prevalent. vice.com/en/article/k7z…
We listened to dozens of swatting calls made by Torswats, the swatting-as-a-service. The vast majority use computer generated voices. Confirmed with police who investigated one school swatting, they believe the same. Here is one example: soundcloud.com/user-233140213…
Here is another example of Torswats targeting a school. Most of the fake voices sound male, there is another they use that sounds like a woman. There are dozens of recordings but they've made potentially hundreds of calls, judging by file numbering soundcloud.com/user-233140213…
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Feb 23
New: 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 balances, transactions, etc. Shatters the idea that voice biometrics are foolproof vice.com/en/article/dy7…
To make this AI voice, I used just ~5 minutes of audio and uploaded to ElevenLabs, probably the most impressive and readily accessible AI-voice system at the moment (I read the GDPR into my mic). It's also being abused by 4chan to dox and harass vice.com/en/article/dy7… Image
It took some time to get the voice just right to follow my cadences, but it worked eventually. Multiple banks use similar voice ID systems. Some say the voice print is "unique," "no one has a voice just like you." TD, Chase, Wells Fargo vice.com/en/article/dy7… ImageImageImage
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Sep 1, 2022
New: 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. No warrant needed, just login and search vice.com/en/article/v7v…
The manual is important because it lays out in clear detail the capabilities, strengths, and limitations of such a product. Geofence an area, select a device, then see where that device went ~90 days. Takes 24 hours for data to come in vice.com/en/article/v7v…
We previously reported on how some app data generally ends up with Venntel, which is the data partner for this product. Apps at the top here, go to companies with SDKs, then give to Gravy, give to Venntel vice.com/en/article/epd… (image GUNDERSEN/NRK)
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