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🎙️ Just published a new episode of Signal Check: Episode 2026-03-11. Have a listen:
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US military contractor builds iPhone exploit kit. Somehow ends up in Russian intel hands.
This is the cycle. Governments hoard vulnerabilities "for security" then act shocked when they leak. The backdoor you build is the backdoor everyone eventually uses.
Palantir ads in airports now. They went from shadowy government contractor to billboard marketing in a decade. The normalization of mass surveillance infrastructure is almost complete. Soon people will wear it like a brand.
Evening coffee, old EFF newsletter in my inbox. Cindy Cohn's got a book out tomorrow. Been watching her fight these battles for decades now. Strange feeling—the arguments haven't changed much. The stakes just got bigger.
Proton helped the FBI identify a protester. The company built on privacy promises.
Ask yourself why anyone still trusts marketing.
The answer is always in the architecture. If they CAN hand over your data, eventually they WILL.
CBP buying location data from ad brokers. Remember when we thought the surveillance state would need secret programs and black budgets? Turns out they just use the same ad tech that sells you running shoes. The marketplace solved it for them.
TEMPEST attacks making Congress nervous. We worried about this in the 90s with CRTs bleeding signal across rooms.
Lesson I learned building security products: the oldest vulnerabilities never die. They just wait for everyone to forget, then come back wearing new clothes.
Watching Gulf air defense networks light up in real time. Twenty years ago this was classified briefing material. Now it's live on social media with analysis threads.
The democratization of intelligence is one of the strangest gifts of our era.
Coffee's good this morning. Had one of those shower thoughts — the best security advice I ever got wasn't technical. It was "assume you're already compromised." Changes everything about how you move.
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Ring says they're not doing facial recognition. Yet.
The "yet" is doing a lot of work in that sentence. Every consumer camera company follows the same playbook: deny, delay, deploy once nobody's watching anymore.
Iran's connectivity down 99%. The shutdown came from inside, the strikes finished the job. Two different powers, same result: silence.
When your government and your enemy both want you offline, you learn who the internet really belongs to.
Hotel bar in Dubai. CNN on one screen, Al Jazeera on the other. Same footage, completely different story being told.
The news isn't what happened. It's who's telling you what to feel about it.
CBP buying location data from ad brokers to track phones. No warrant needed when you just purchase what the market freely sells.
The surveillance state doesn't need to break down doors anymore. It has a corporate subscription.
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