2026-03-05
Seen this viral tweet about a portable audio jammer? Looks cool, right? It also looks quite similar to 100s products sold on Alibaba & in spy shops for years. Or as DIY kits for $50 in parts. They use ultrasonic noise to overwhelm very close-by microphones. I'm skeptical [image]
The Daily Dot
Deveillance's upcoming anti-surveillance device, Spectre I, went viral after its founder said it blocks nearby listening devices with AI, but some are skeptical
2026-02-14
2/ Ring just learned a lesson: Americans want more privacy, not less. — We're suspicious of big tech companies encroaching on our personal lives & prepared to show it. — Lawmakers take note: pushing back on mass surveillance = grassroots support. — By @jp2e.bsky.social …
The Verge
Amazon's Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety, which would have let law enforcement agencies request footage from Ring doorbell users, after backlash
Now, should you trust @ring now? No. After all they thought this was a good idea. But this shows that pressure works. Be the backlash against surveillance that you want to see in the world. Voice your disgust over surveillance grabs & show it by cancelling subscriptions and tossing devices. 1/
The Verge
Amazon's Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety, which would have let law enforcement agencies request footage from Ring doorbell users, after backlash
2026-02-13
BREAKING: Ring just cancelled their partnership with #Flock. Now, should you trust @ring now? No. After all they thought this was a good idea. But this shows that pressure works. Be the backlash against surveillance that you want to see in the world. Voice your disgust over [image]
The Verge
Amazon's Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety, which would have let law enforcement agencies request footage from Ring doorbell users, after backlash
After weeks of mounting pressure and a questionable Super Bowl ad, the Amazon-owned company has walked back its plan to integrate with the controversial surveillance company.
2/ Ring just learned a lesson: Americans want more privacy, not less. — We're suspicious of big tech companies encroaching on our personal lives & prepared to show it. — Lawmakers take note: pushing back on mass surveillance = grassroots support. — By @jp2e.bsky.social …
The Verge
Amazon's Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety, which would have let law enforcement agencies request footage from Ring doorbell users, after backlash
After weeks of mounting pressure and a questionable Super Bowl ad, the Amazon-owned company has walked back its plan to integrate with the controversial surveillance company.
2026-02-12
3/ Russia is very clearly building a digital apparatus of mass control. The history of autocrats trying to replace popular and private foreign apps with homegrown surveillance tools is not new. But Russia is the biggest experiment yet. By @MehulAtLarge & @NastyaStognei
Financial Times
Russia removes WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram from a Roskomnadzor-run online directory, essentially blocking them in the country, unless users rely on a VPN
@MehulAtLarge @NastyaStognei 4/ Russia has more than 100 million @whatsapp users despite the government shenanigans And it seems far more likely that, instead of displacing all of them to the Max app, Russia is about to push an unprecedented volume of traffic over VPNs. By @markc_anderson
Financial Times
Russia removes WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram from a Roskomnadzor-run online directory, essentially blocking them in the country, unless users rely on a VPN
NEW: Russia's digital iron curtain is slamming shut. They just began a @WhatsApp block among other services. Behind the curtain? Russians are being pushed to use the Max app, which has zero encryption, connects with gov services & looks exactly like a mass surveillance tool. [image]
Financial Times
Russia removes WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram from a Roskomnadzor-run online directory, essentially blocking them in the country, unless users rely on a VPN
2/ Russia has been degrading alternatives to the Max app for a while... all while pushing the app in various ways. Like forcing all new phones sold in RU to have it pre-installed. This week marks the biggest yet push to centralize a whole country into one surveillance mega-app. [image]
Financial Times
Russia removes WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram from a Roskomnadzor-run online directory, essentially blocking them in the country, unless users rely on a VPN
2026-02-03
NEW: @moltbook had a vulnerability exposing all users emails, real names etc. +other security mistakes & misconfigurations. @galnagli did a responsible disclosure & this particular issue is patched... Big pic: vibecoding is getting great at making things that just work... but are insecure out of the box.
Reuters
Wiz says Moltbook had a major flaw that exposed private messages, emails, and credentials; Wiz co-founder Ami Luttwak called the flaw a byproduct of vibe coding
A buzzy new social network where artificial intelligence-powered bots appear to swap code and gossip about their human owners …
2. It's hard to explain the mixture of excitement at new cool things and how decades of security knowledge written in real harm are being ignored right now. [image]
Reuters
Wiz says Moltbook had a major flaw that exposed private messages, emails, and credentials; Wiz co-founder Ami Luttwak called the flaw a byproduct of vibe coding
A buzzy new social network where artificial intelligence-powered bots appear to swap code and gossip about their human owners …
3. Behind the 1.5 million AI agents on @moltbook ? Something closer to 17k likely human owners. And zero mechanism to validate what was what. In fact, a human could post to it just using an HTTP POST request. And any user could be impersonated.... https://www.wiz.io/... [image]
Reuters
Wiz says Moltbook had a major flaw that exposed private messages, emails, and credentials; Wiz co-founder Ami Luttwak called the flaw a byproduct of vibe coding
A buzzy new social network where artificial intelligence-powered bots appear to swap code and gossip about their human owners …
2026-02-02
NEW: @moltbook had a vulnerability exposing all users emails, real names etc. +other security mistakes & misconfigurations. @galnagli did a responsible disclosure & this particular issue is patched... Big pic: vibecoding is getting great at making things that just work... but [image]
Reuters
Wiz says Moltbook had a major flaw that exposed private messages, emails, and credentials; Wiz co-founder Ami Luttwak called the flaw a byproduct of vibe coding
A buzzy new social network where artificial intelligence-powered bots appear to swap code and gossip about their human owners …
2. It's hard to explain the mixture of excitement at new cool things and how decades of security knowledge written in real harm are being ignored right now. [image]
Reuters
Wiz says Moltbook had a major flaw that exposed private messages, emails, and credentials; Wiz co-founder Ami Luttwak called the flaw a byproduct of vibe coding
A buzzy new social network where artificial intelligence-powered bots appear to swap code and gossip about their human owners …
3. Behind the 1.5 million AI agents on @moltbook ? Something closer to 17k likely human owners. And zero mechanism to validate what was what. In fact, a human could post to it just using an HTTP POST request. And any user could be impersonated.... https://www.wiz.io/... [image]
Reuters
Wiz says Moltbook had a major flaw that exposed private messages, emails, and credentials; Wiz co-founder Ami Luttwak called the flaw a byproduct of vibe coding
A buzzy new social network where artificial intelligence-powered bots appear to swap code and gossip about their human owners …
2026-02-01
Someone spun up a social network for AI agents. Almost immediately some agents began strategizing how to establish covert communications channels to communicate without human observation. In many cases the agents are on machines that have access to personal user data. “Privacy [image]
Simon Willison's Weblog
A look at Moltbook, a social network where OpenClaw assistants interact autonomously, as they discuss consciousness and identity, technical tips, and more
This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang …Charlie Guo /Artificial Ignorance:Humans Welcome to ObserveBen Smith /Semafor:The humans are chasing conspiracies. What will the b...
Someone spun up a social network for AI agents. Almost immediately some agents began strategizing how to establish covert communications channels to communicate without human observation. In many cases the agents are on machines that have access to personal user data. “Privacy [image]
404 Media
A researcher says an exposed Moltbook database could have let anyone take control of the site's AI agents and post anything; the database has since been secured
‘It exploded before anyone thought to check whether the database was properly secured.’ — Moltbook is a “social media” …
2026-01-31
Someone spun up a social network for AI agents. Almost immediately some agents began strategizing how to establish covert communications channels to communicate without human observation. In many cases the agents are on machines that have access to personal user data. “Privacy [image]
@karpathy
Even though Moltbook has security risks and a lot of spam, the scale of nearly 150,000 autonomous AI agents interacting with each other is unprecedented
Andrej Karpathy /@karpathy:
Someone spun up a social network for AI agents. Almost immediately some agents began strategizing how to establish covert communications channels to communicate without human observation. In many cases the agents are on machines that have access to personal user data. “Privacy [image]
Simon Willison's Weblog
A look at Moltbook, a social network where OpenClaw assistants interact autonomously, as they discuss consciousness and identity, technical tips, and more
The hottest project in AI right now is Clawdbot, renamed to Moltbot, renamed to OpenClaw. It's an open source implementation …
2026-01-30
Someone spun up a social network for AI agents. Almost immediately some agents began strategizing how to establish covert communications channels to communicate without human observation. In many cases the agents are on machines that have access to personal user data. “Privacy [image]
Simon Willison's Weblog
A look at Moltbook, a social network where OpenClaw assistants interact autonomously, as they discuss consciousness and identity, technical tips, and more
The hottest project in AI right now is Clawdbot, renamed to Moltbot, renamed to OpenClaw. It's an open source implementation …