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  I have spent much of this week doing the sort of work that AI is absolutely terrible at, which has helped me to see how many people doing this same work are definitely using AI.

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  Russia has been blocking Signal/WhatsApp/Telegram and it has made VK's Max increasingly mandatory to reach govt services. We assumed it was a privacy nightmare, but InterSecLab brings the goods: https://interseclab.org/research/max/

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  It's Opt Out October and EFF is here to talk to you about the many alternatives to Big Tech that you may be interested in: https://www.eff.org/pages/welcome-opt-out-october-lets-take-control-our-data-and-our-devices

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  This company makes a cute little tool for silencing AirTags and they absolutely do not care that they are helping people to create perfect stalking devices. https://sixcolors.com/post/2026/10/silencing-airtags-enables-stalkers-and-domestic-violence/

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  I will be delivering the opening keynote at BSides NYC on October 17th. 45 minutes of screaming followed by 15 minutes of Q&A: https://bsidesnyc.org/

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  It has been five months since my last keynote about AI and so much has happened that I need to write a whole new talk.

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  Meta Muse appears to read your Apple messages and upload them to the cloud even if you explicitly tell it not to: https://appleinsider.com/articles/26/09/28/metas-new-ai-agent-blatantly-ignores-users-permissions

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  DraftKings Is Using AI to Supercharge the Harms of Online Behavioral Advertising https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/09/draftkings-using-ai-supercharge-harms-online-behavioral-advertising

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  The most important thing I learned in my 20s is that being smart doesn't make you special. Eventually you need to learn to try hard and to enjoy learning to do things you're not immediately good at. It turns out that the people who didn't learn this lesson were reading Harry Potter fanfic.

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  I grew up expecting that 2026 would be grimdark cyberpunk, but I never had the audacity to imagine that the future would be this stupid: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/us/politics/amazon-drone-delivery-texas.html

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  No amount of complicity is going to save you from fascism, so you might as well fight.

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  Listen, I just think it's weird that the same people who are saying they're worried that AI is going to wipe out humanity are also eager for military contracts that will give AI control of weapons.

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  In every community, there are predators. And how that community deals with high-status predators says a lot about them. https://nypost.com/2026/09/24/tech/silicon-valley-sex-assault-list-with-over-100-names-circulated-warning-female-tech-workers-of-predators-to-avoid/

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  A world of always-on cameras and microphones on peoples' bodies is a very serious privacy and security problem for the people wearing them and for everyone around them. https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/article/welcome-to-the-age-of-listening-devices-144845987.html

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  "Once again, a core feature of a major piece of AI technology will actually just be people working in a call center." https://www.404media.co/meta-tests-muse-ai-agent-calls-that-are-actually-made-by-humans-in-a-call-center/

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  Today in Pervert Glasses News: https://www.lemonde.fr/en/pixels/article/2026/09/22/paris-prosecutors-launch-probes-into-non-consensual-filming-of-women-with-smart-glasses_6757829_13.html

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  German agencies use the linked-device features in WhatsApp, Signal, and Telegram to receive messages without breaking encryption. https://cybernews.com/privacy/police-telegram-whatsapp-signal-surveillance-linked-devices/

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  Riana Pfefferkorn, doing the Lord's work, by which I mean publishing a paper analyzing 71 federal criminal cases, filed around the US from 2022-2025, that involve AI-generated or -morphed CSAM or child obscenity, titled: Yes, It's Already Illegal: Federal Criminal Prosecutions for AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Material https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=7474438

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  Thanks, I hate it: https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/the-government-was-entitled-trumps-border-agents-can-now-search-cellphones-without-a-warrant-probable-cause-or-reasonable-suspicion-2nd-circuit-rules/

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  AI doomers getting all of their ideas about the apocalypse from science fiction seem to have missed the whole point of the Jackpot, which is that the apocalypse is long and boring.

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  This is one of those times when I wish old school infosec Twitter was still a thing. Does anyone know the folks over at Arctic Wolf? They have put out this report on Dark Caracal and I have some follow-up questions. https://arcticwolf.com/resources/blog/dark-caracal-reloaded-new-malware-same-hunting-grounds/

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  Buyers of pervert glasses join the war on pervert glasses: https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2026-09-18/meta-glasses-captured-shared-intimate-images-without-users-consent-lawsuit-claims

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  Adult ballet class is great place to learn that you have no idea how to stand, move your arms, or lift your leg correctly.

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  Just remember that when you opt into allowing Apple to use your customer data to train AI, that means humans seeing and hearing details about your life that maybe you're not so comfortable sharing when you think of it that way. https://appleinsider.com/articles/26/09/14/apple-has-altered-course-on-using-customer-data-to-train-its-ai

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  The real reason I spend so much time at the circus school is that I have been slowly developing an immunity to clowns. This allows me to continue to do tech policy.

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  This article makes two important points: 1. People using ChatGPT expose sensitive data because they think it is private 2. OpenAI relies on hundreds of human contractors reviewing replies to improve their models https://www.404media.co/inside-project-lily-the-humans-reading-your-chatgpt-chats/

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  Cara Esten Hurtle used drones to map and photograph Flock cameras. "More than anything, what stood out to me about the process of photographing these devices was geography: they exist at the boundaries of rich neighborhoods like Piedmont to track who enters; they exist embedded into poor neighborhoods to track the people who live there. Place exposes their purpose." https://recordsofenemysurveillance.com/

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  There is a part of me that thinks "if only I had stopped to give a course on the entire history of copyright law, the elements of fair use, and how impact litigation works, this rando on the internet would see the error of his ways." Reader, it has never made a lick of difference and it is best to touch grass.

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  On Sept 11th, I think about Cindy Cohn's description of what it was like to come into work at EFF on September 12th, knowing that everything positive she had hoped to achieve was now on hold and we were in for several desperate years of playing defense.

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  Some of my favorite activists are historians and/or anthropologists and I really wish the digital rights space hired more people like this.