Location tracking based on interior pictures. It will be abused to target people. Post the inside your place at your peril.

Earliest days of vibecoding-as-a-target. Without a radical increase in security, vibecoders will get wiped out & lose their savings. And their companies will get hit with fat breaches. Me? I'm waiting for attackers to figure out how to reliably slip backdoors into vibecoded outputs at scale.

X: we are actively fighting bots Also X: here's an ad for bots.

Neuroticism? Ripping. Conscientiousness & agreeableness? Dipping. Via FT:

Client Challenge

NEW: 🇩🇪Germany's top court says spyware severely violates fundamental rights. Bans spyware in cases with <3year sentences. Enforces tough proportionality tests on all surveillance. Restricts spyware to serious cases. Interesting development. Court says: capturing data at the source (i.e. on someone's phone) is maximally invasive. Especially given how much of our lives happens online. They also surface the security risks to systems from this kind of surveillance. Watching Germany's highest court grapple with spyware's invasiveness & rights violations is instructive. States wielding spyware without robust legal limitations and tight judicial oversight... are almost guaranteed to be violating their citizens' basic rights. In so many jurisdictions, state secrecy & lack of effective legal challenges means spyware harms happening daily Huge credit to German digital freedoms organization #digitalcourage for bringing this case. Court statement:

Rules on preventative and criminal procedural (source) telecommunications surveillance and criminal procedural remote searches are constitutional for the most part

In orders published today, the First Senate of the Federal Constitutional Court rendered its decision on two constitutional complaints concerning s...

Internet-connected microphones in school bathrooms. What could go wrong? Mandated microphones in private spaces are a bad idea. Throwing invasive sensors into private spaces rarely fixes socially scary problems. But is almost guaranteed to have risky downsides. Story:

WIRED

It Looks Like a School Bathroom Smoke Detector. A Teen Hacker Showed It Could Be an Audio Bug

A pair of hackers found that a vape detector often found in high school bathrooms contained microphones—and security weaknesses that could allow ...

Regular people know that age verification mandates won't work. But they are worried about their children's safety, and they aren't being offered non-dystopian alternatives.