This week we start with Jason’s story about how wildlife cops are doing Flock lookups for ICE. It shows that ICE is gaining access to this sort of information through pretty unexpected ways. After the break, Emanuel tells us all about the AI ban at Wikipedia. In the subscribers-only section, Joseph breaks down a set of vulnerabilities in the ‘secure’ chat app TeleGuard.
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0:00 – Intro
1:03 – Wildlife Conservation Police Are Searching Thousands of Flock Cameras for ICE
27:55 – Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content
34:33 – An AI Agent Was Banned From Creating Wikipedia Articles, Then Wrote Angry Blogs About Being Banned
Subscriber’s Story – A Secure Chat App’s Encryption Is So Bad It Is ‘Meaningless’