Mikael Thalen

Am I the only one that thinks he sounds like Robert Downey Jr.?

Is this not related to the alleged Petco breach by Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters?

I was lucky enough to get an Obscura device but haven't heard anything new on when the IMSI-rotation feature will make its way to the public Cape app.

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Futurism Groxxing Elon Musk’s Grok Is Doxxing Home Addresses of Everyday People Grok is a stalker's best friend. Image: Elon Musk doing a gesture that looks a whole lot like a Nazi salute over a bunch of censored information about private citizens, generated by his chatbot, Grok. By Maggie Harrison Dupré, Joe Wilkins Published Dec 4, 2025 9:05 AM EST

NEW: Elon Musk's Grok chatbot will, with minimal prompting, provide residential addresses of everyday Americans.

Prompts as simple as "[name] address" immediately returned accurate home addresses of private citizens — alongside other personal info we didn't ask for.

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Sounds great for everyday people looking for privacy. But I think journalists and other potentially targeted people should use Cape, which has the same features plus protection against SS7 attacks, SIM-swapping and, in the future, will include IMSI rotation.

Trump’s T1 mobile phone still hasn’t shipped to customers since its June 2025 launch. Deliveries were supposed to begin on November 13. The company updated its website and no longer claims the phones are American-made, calling them “American-proud design” instead.

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Email says We are prepared to receive boxes tomorrow, as NY agents are travelling to WFO in the morning, and vill arrive to Winchester where they will start photographing and we will start scanning and processing the physical files. Once I see the volume, I'|l have a better estimate of processing times, although 1 suggest we do a rolling delivery to further demonstrate the FBIls commitment to delivery and transparency.

🚨 NEW/EXCLUSIVE: The FBI turned over dozens of emails to me in response to my #FOIA request that provides a behind-the-scenes look at discussions involving the review and redaction of the Epstein files

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Cops Used Flock to Monitor No Kings Protests Around the Country A massive cache of Flock lookups collated by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) shows as many as 50 federal, state, and local agencies used Flock during protests over the last year.

New: cops used Flock AI-enabled cameras to monitor No Kings protests around the country. Also monitored No Hands protests and protests against DOGE.

"Should serve as a warning of how it may be used in the future to suppress dissent."

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Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with 'suspicious' travel patterns The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious.

AP finds a secretive Border Patrol intelligence program detains Americans for “suspicious” travel. Critics call it mass surveillance.

IRS Accessed Massive Database of Americans Flights Without a Warrant A bipartisan letter reveals the IRS searched a database of hundreds of millions of travel records without first conducting a legal review. Airlines like Delta, United, American, and Southwest are sell...

New from 404 Media: IRS accessed a massive database of Americans flights without a warrant. Shows where and when someone flew, the credit card used. Hundreds of millions records; the airlines sell this data to the government through a broker they own

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This App Lets ICE Track Vehicles and Owners Across the Country Material viewed by 404 Media shows data giant Thomson Reuters enriches license plate data with marriage, voter, and ownership records. The tool can predict where a car may be in the future.

license plate data merged with credit header data, marriage records, vehicle ownership, and voter registrations, in one app for ICE agents. oh and it sends push notifications when someone they're seeking is nearby.
🆒: www.404media.co/this-app-let...

Zero day vuln in third-party software.

John Bolton among Washington Post contributors exposed in hack Ex-national security advisor John Bolton is one of nearly 10,000 contributors who had data exposed after a hack of The Washington Post.

NEW: Nearly 10,000 employees & contractors at The Washington Post, including ex-national security adviser John Bolton, had their personal data exposed after the paper was breached by hackers.

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Five people plead guilty to helping North Koreans infiltrate US companies as 'remote IT workers' | TechCrunch The U.S. Department of Justice said five people — including four U.S. nationals — "facilitated" North Korean IT workers to get jobs at American companies, allowing the regime to earn money from their ...

NEW: Five people who live in the U.S. pleaded guily for "facilitating" and helping the North Korean regime place fake remote IT workers inside American companies.

U.S. Department of Justice said their actions affected 136 U.S. companies and netted Kim Jong Un’s regime $2.2 million in revenue.

Epstein files (121 GB)

A collection of documents, emails, and recordings relating to Jeffrey Epstein, including his FBI and Interpol files, court documents, releases from the DOJ and Congress, and leaked emails.

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@mustafasuleymanai.bsky.social Hey Mustafa, Mikael Thalen here, tech reporter for Straight Arrow News. Was interested in sending a few questions your way about MAI. Can you shoot me a DM or email (info in bio)? Thanks!

Scoop: Inside DHS's vast college football surveillance effort If you go to a college football game, the feds have cameras on you.

In 2023, students at Ohio State blocked the doors to the president's office.

Little did they know, live video from campus CCTVs were being fed straight to DHS.

It's part of a little-known, decades-long surveillance effort built on the back of college football.

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Thousands of North Koreans have secretly infiltrated US and European companies as remote IT workers North Korea's secret remote workers are a major threat facing U.S. and European businesses today, taking jobs in Fortune 100 and smaller companies alike. Here's how to recognize and combat the threat.

New, by me at this.weekinsecurity.com: I wrote ~3,700 of my finest words on North Korea's remote IT workers, who have infiltrated businesses across the U.S. and Europe and aren't slowing down. Probably the most pervasive cyber threats today.

Here's my primer on how to recognize & combat them.

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CBP Quietly Launches Face Scanning App for Local Cops To Do Immigration Enforcement The app, called Mobile Identify and available on the Google Play Store, is specifically for local and regional law enforcement agencies working with ICE on immigration enforcement.

New from 404 Media: CBP has quietly launched a facial recognition app for local cops to do immigration enforcement. Scans their face, tells cops whether to contact ICE about this person or not. A truly rapid expansion of ICE's facial recognition app to local cops
www.404media.co/cbp-quietly-...

Iran-linked hackers leak CCTV footage from inside Israeli defense contractor Surveillance footage from inside Israeli defense contractor Maya Engineering has been leaked online by an Iranian-linked hacktivist group.

NEW: Surveillance footage from inside an Israeli defense contractor has been leaked online by an Iranian-linked hacktivist group.

The footage shows defense contractors attending internal meetings, designing weapons systems and their involvement with Israel's Iron Dome.

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The Texas Dept of Public Safety carried out aerial surveillance of Austin's No Kings protest after Gov. Abbott suggested that "violence & destruction" were likely.

Of course, the event was peaceful. Even the pilot, in video I obtained via FOIA, says: "Seems like it’s gonna be pretty peaceful, huh?"

New from 404 Media: logins for Flock, the company behind the nationwide AI-camera network, are included in malware infections. Includes government and police accounts, meaning hackers could potentially break in. Senator Wyden asking FTC to investigate Flock

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You Can't Refuse To Be Scanned by ICE's Facial Recognition App, DHS Document Says Photos captured by Mobile Fortify will be stored for 15 years, regardless of immigration or citizenship status, the document says.

New from 404 Media: you can't refuse to be scanned by ICE's new facial recognition app, according to internal DHS document I obtained. Photos captured by the app are stored for 15 years, including U.S. citizens. We've seen officers scanning faces w/ phones on streets

www.404media.co/you-cant-ref...

Early planning documents reviewed by WIRED describe a statewide transport grid designed for steady detainee transfers across Texas, with ICE estimating each trip to average 100 miles. Every county would have its own small, around-the-clock team of contractors collecting immigrants from local authorities deputized by ICE. It is a subtle transfer of the physical custody process into the hands of a private security firm—authorized to carry firearms and perform transport duties “in any and all local, county, state, and ICE locations.”

NEW: ICE is planning to build a shadow deportation network in Texas. A proposal outlines a 24/7 transport operation run by armed contractors—turning Texas into the logistical backbone of an industrialized deportation machine.

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Someone Snuck Into a Cellebrite Microsoft Teams Call and Leaked Phone Unlocking Details The leaked slide focuses on Google Pixel phones and mentions those running the security-focused GrapheneOS operating system.

New from 404 Media: someone managed to get into a Microsoft Teams call with phone hackers Cellebrite, who then detailed some of the company's hacking capabilities against Google Pixel phones. Also its capabilities against GrapheneOS, security-focused devices www.404media.co/someone-snuc...

Full story: The self-described "founder" of Anonymous and part-time federal cooperator Kirtaner announced he would be returning to prison after violating the terms of his bail with $ANON.