DHS's Office of Industry Partnership was hacked by a group called "Department of Peace" and info about ICE contracts with over 6,000 companies is now published on @ddosecrets.org!
Enjoy 🧊🔨 ddosecrets.org/article/ice-...
DHS's Office of Industry Partnership was hacked by a group called "Department of Peace" and info about ICE contracts with over 6,000 companies is now published on @ddosecrets.org!
Enjoy 🧊🔨 ddosecrets.org/article/ice-...
New: the government just made it harder to see what spy tech it buys. This includes ICE, the FBI, essentially any agency. Why? Because they decided to retire the perfectly good system for searching contracts and replaced it with one that fucking sucks
www.404media.co/the-governme...
Last May, Tennessee Highway Patrol joined ICE on the streets of Nashville.
We @lighthousereports.com + partners mapped the traffic stops and used 1M+ ICE records, dashcam video, and court files to show how supposed routine encounters became deportations.
New: the FBI got Grok to hand over the prompts a suspect used to generate nonconsensual porn. Connected to a harassment case. Pretty rare to see a Grok search warrant like this
www.404media.co/fbi-subpoena...
Want to investigate something using open sources but not sure where to start? 🧵
We’ve gathered some of our go-to resources for learning, practicing, and collaborating on open source research - whether you’re brand new or sharpening your skills...
New —> OpenAI uses the ChatGPT logs of a Chinese law enforcement official to trace a sprawling covert influence operation aimed at intimidating Chinese dissidents worldwide & denigrating the Japanese prime minister: www.cnn.com/2026/02/25/p...
25.02.2026 13:56 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 2
New: this app warns you if someone is wearing smart glasses nearby.
Meta plans to add facial recognition to its Ray-Ban smart glasses. A 404 Media reader made this app after we showed men filming people w/o their consent, and DHS officials were wearing the glasses www.404media.co/this-app-war...
Tracing a ship's flag is often the first step toward uncovering bigger stories of corruption, smuggling, or sanctions evasion.
www.occrp.org/en/feature/p...
Today in Have LLMs finally mastered geolocation (cc @foeke.bsky.social)
22.02.2026 07:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
From my colleagues: A covert Chinese nuclear test is part of a push by Beijing to develop the world’s most advanced nuclear arsenal, US spy agencies believe www.cnn.com/2026/02/21/p...
21.02.2026 19:46 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0“weak credentials with single-factor authentication” — credential stuffing but AI
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Bellingcat's latest documentary, Killing Anna, a tale of catfishing Syrian war criminals and exposing their roles in a massacre, will be shown at CPH:DOX in March. The ultimate Doxxing at DOX.
cphdox.dk/film/killing...
For those who don't understand the "banality of evil" reference, it's from Hannah Arendt's book about Adolf Eichmann's trial in Israel. She used it to describe how ordinary Germans/Poles/Ukrainians became accomplices to the Nazis by mindlessly buying into the demonization of their Jewish neighbors
20.02.2026 21:01 — 👍 57 🔁 23 💬 1 📌 1The blogger previously — 2.5 years ago! — wrote a post about archive.today but did not uncover any new names/aliases. Super weird!
20.02.2026 20:53 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Love a good metadata fail
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1) create a threat model
2) use Signal (w/ disappearing messages + username)
3) use Proton in lieu of Google for docs, spreadsheets
4) meet in person if that makes sense
5) “my God, go out there and help people. Because we need it.”
I don’t think I’ve ever had so many people writing to me to ask about encrypted/secure/private tools for comms, collaboration, and organizing. So @lhn.bsky.social and I talked to experts and assembled this: the Wired guide to organizing in an age of surveillance. www.wired.com/story/how-to...
19.02.2026 14:35 — 👍 241 🔁 157 💬 2 📌 13
"Racists ain't safe 'round this holler" t shirt sold by Screwston Antifascist Committee
"Bodily autonomy for all by any means necessary" t shirt sold by Screwston Antifascist Committee
"Racists ain't safe in the dirty south" t shirt sold by Screwston Antifascist Committee
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is targeting Screwston Antifascist Committee, calling them "deranged traitors".
They've got some pretty cool shirts for sale on their website
screwstonafc.shop
This is a really nice new Cloudflare feature: on-the-fly markdown conversion. Tools like Claude Code send an "Accept: text/markdown" header when making web requests. If you enable this it, it will send these agents a markdown version of your page instead of the full HTML. Really good for docs.
12.02.2026 15:40 — 👍 101 🔁 16 💬 7 📌 6
The tool presents users with a 3D model they can then manipulate to, the creator says, bypass Discord's age verification system.
11.02.2026 21:15 — 👍 143 🔁 48 💬 3 📌 9
Epic OPSEC fail by Paragon exposing Graphite spyware capabilities.
Annotated pic from what we know.
Please help me figure out the other apps in in this pic that the spyware can access:
#WhatsApp
#Telegram
#Signal
?
#Line?
?
#Snapchat?
#TikTok?
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In the latest episode of 'what happened to that CCTV footage from within an ICE detention center', the government now says it lost hard drives it was supposed to put the footage on
www.404media.co/government-l...
New, by @lorenzofb.bsky.social: Google sent personal and financial data about a student and journalist, who attended a pro-Palestine protest in 2024, to ICE agents in response to an "administrative subpoena," which had not been approved by a judge.
10.02.2026 20:48 — 👍 43 🔁 27 💬 2 📌 5
no eres mis casa bonita
no eres mis esposa bonita
404 Media just had an ad during the #SuperBowl! We Googled "smallest TV markets in the United States" and bought an ad for $2,550 that only ran in Ottumwa, Iowa, population 25,000. That still counts
www.404media.co/watch-404-me...
Super Bowl commercials this year: “remember when we didn’t live in 2026”
09.02.2026 02:14 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Rekognition says that was _not_ Liam (I hope it's wrong)
09.02.2026 02:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Cameo on What We Do In The Shadows
07.02.2026 03:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The X account that created the video Donald Trump shared depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes was previously behind the clip the US president shared that portrayed him as a pilot dumping excrement on "No Kings" protesters. Note the matching watermark.
06.02.2026 14:51 — 👍 349 🔁 112 💬 12 📌 9Not a rumor, definitively connected to him via multiple social media accounts
07.02.2026 02:06 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0