Zack Whittaker
Security editor, TechCrunch
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- NEW--our reporting continues to have important impact.
- I was going to do stuff today but I’m stuck here forever now. RIP
- couple of thoughts: If you’re mad about how much someone is paying in rent, blame the landlord. If you’re scandalized by that same person having a life, refocus your energies.
- me still trying to unload that keurig i got for xmas two years ago
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- Something nobody tells you about GLP-1s is that delayed gastric emptying means that edibles taken at night for sleeping can kick in the following day Completely unrelated to this, I am now stuffing my face with cornbread
- Just read a conference submission that was basically 2 pages of "Here's the intricate gymnastics I did to access some API, which is now fixed." Completely burying the lede on the last line, "And oh, btw, I was also able to get preauth access to any random [Cloud Provider] customer's secrets manager.
- People are still yelling at me and trying to defend Piker's decision to chat away with CBP so I wrote about the myriad ways it was stupid.
- Big news in my motion to unseal the search warrants for Xiaofeng Wang's homes: the court just issued a show-cause order telling the govt to file add'l briefing (calling its original response "generic" & "conclusory"), but also, to file proposed redacted versions of the warrant materials. GREAT sign!
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- Part of the govt's opposition to my motion was "who the hell is this rando asking to unseal search warrants authorizing govt raids of a cybersecurity researcher's homes?" and my response was "The person who wrote a whole fucking law journal article about legal risks to cybersecurity researchers."
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- Maybe DOGE can save some money by cutting the F/A-18 submarine program.
- Subscribe to Law Dork! www.lawdork.com
- TechCrunch’s @lorenzofb.bsky.social read the transcripts of the WhatsApp vs. NSO Group trial’s hearings and is highlighting the most interesting facts and revelations that came out. 👇 techcrunch.com/2025/05/10/f...
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- Meta's PR absolutely lost its shit at us a few months ago when we wrote about how a student added facial recognition to its Rayban smart glasses, the underlying implication being that it would not do that itself. Well Well Well. WELL WELL WELL www.404media.co/well-well-we...
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- Why is Microsoft Teams?
- Plz cross fingers the api is right and they like me because the place is perfect and I just want to have a home again,
- Not me hitting f5 at 11pm
- Shmoocon trained you for this.
- For every doll you deny me I will push another jet off an aircraft carrier
- paying for a streaming service that interrupts what you’re watching with ads is like paying for someone to insult you every 12 minutes
- You can call NSO a lot of things, but a cybersecurity company isn’t one of them.
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- Props to TC reporter for doing his own security analysis on this shitty dating app and finding a huge vulnerability
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- I'm on my way. >>> Australia
- Remember how all the cyber security people said not to backdoor end-to-end encryption? That sensitive data should be encrypted in transit AND at rest?
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- Hardcoded credentials in the Signal archiving tool used by the White House is a five-alarm security dumpster fire.
- The source code for the TM SGNL apps (basically a backdoored version of Signal used by Trump officials) is public! Since it's open source, I've pushed it to github for easier research micahflee.com/heres-the-so...
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- Several of you have asked me how you can watch my son Sam in the Indonesia World Cup, taking place at 11:45AM and 3pm Sat Bali time (GMT+8) In New York, it will be 11:45PM Friday night & 3AM Sat for the Finals. In other words, hacker hours. First Link is live now: www.youtube.com/live/QfznY1s...
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- for my birthday my dear 404 Media cofounders got me a smart picture frame and loaded it with AI slop, incredibly thoughtful gift
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- Let’s goooo!
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- virtually every other publication could learn a thing or two from @404media.co on linking back to other publications. not only is this extremely useful context to catch people up on a story, it shares credit and goodwill. this is exactly what this should look like www.404media.co/this-is-pala...
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- I prefer your words if I’m honest
