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Mikael Thalen

@mikaelthalen
35 posts
2026-02-20
Ring's founder is running defense in the media after his disastrous Super Bowl ad.  —  Yet he's still framing the “Search Party” feature as a way to find lost dogs, despite @404media.co obtaining an internal email where he says the feature will expand beyond dogs. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/b...
2026-02-20 View on X
New York Times

Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is on an apology tour to quell an outcry over privacy concerns after Ring's Super Bowl Search Party ad, calling it a “perfect storm”

2025-05-23
The government wants to build a centralized platform where spy agencies can more easily buy private info about millions of people. theintercept.com/2025/05/22/ i... via @sambiddle.com
2025-05-23 View on X
The Intercept

Docs: ODNI is developing a centralized portal to streamline the purchase of commercially available information, like location data, by US intelligence agencies

US intel is buying up vast volumes of sensitive information that would have previously required a court order, essentially bypassing #FourthAmendment.  But #surveillance state has ...

2023-03-08
@elonmusk The Tor Project has attempted to reach Twitter but has not heard back. Also, it appears those who built the onion service are no longer employed with Twitter. https://www.theverge.com/...
2023-03-08 View on X
The Verge

Twitter lets the certificate for its Tor onion site expire, effectively killing off the privacy-preserving and speech-protecting service after one year

Twitter has allowed the certificate for its Tor onion site to expire, effectively killing off a privacy- and speech-protecting service that it introduced last year.

Twitter has let the certificate for its onion service expire, meaning the darknet version of its website can no longer be accessed. Are there plans to fix this @elonmusk ? https://twitter.com/...
2023-03-08 View on X
The Verge

Twitter lets the certificate for its Tor onion site expire, effectively killing off the privacy-preserving and speech-protecting service after one year

Twitter has allowed the certificate for its Tor onion site to expire, effectively killing off a privacy- and speech-protecting service that it introduced last year.

2023-01-22
NEW: The federal No Fly List was exposed on an open server discovered by a security researcher last week. The list, which was being stored by the US airline CommuteAir, contained over 1.5 million rows of data including names, aliases, & birth dates. https://www.dailydot.com/...
2023-01-22 View on X
The Daily Dot

CommuteAir took down a 2019 copy of the US No Fly List, after a researcher said they found it on an unsecured server and that it had 1.5M+ entries, many aliases

One of the most sensitive U.S. government documents was left online.  —  An unsecured server discovered by a security researcher …

2022-12-16
Mashable's Matt Binder has now been suspended for covering Musk's suspension of Mastodon and ElonJet. https://twitter.com/...
2022-12-16 View on X
NBC News

Twitter suspends several journalists, including the NYT's Ryan Mac and CNN's Donie O'Sullivan; Elon Musk says the “same doxxing rules apply to journalists”

Twitter suspended several high-profile journalists Thursday evening who have been covering the company and Elon Musk.

The Intercept's Micah Lee how now been suspended for tweeting about Musk's suspension of Mastodon and ElonJet. https://twitter.com/...
2022-12-16 View on X
NBC News

Twitter suspends several journalists, including the NYT's Ryan Mac and CNN's Donie O'Sullivan; Elon Musk says the “same doxxing rules apply to journalists”

Twitter suspended several high-profile journalists Thursday evening who have been covering the company and Elon Musk.

The account for journalist Keith Olbermann has been suspended as well after similarly tweeting about Musk's suspension of Mastodon, ElonJet, and other journalists. https://twitter.com/...
2022-12-16 View on X
NBC News

Twitter suspends several journalists, including the NYT's Ryan Mac and CNN's Donie O'Sullivan; Elon Musk says the “same doxxing rules apply to journalists”

Twitter suspended several high-profile journalists Thursday evening who have been covering the company and Elon Musk.

Musk is now arguing that sharing links to the Mastodon account of ElonJet, which uses publicly available radar data to track his private jet, is akin to giving out “assassination coordinates.” https://twitter.com/...
2022-12-16 View on X
NBC News

Twitter suspends several journalists, including the NYT's Ryan Mac and CNN's Donie O'Sullivan; Elon Musk says the “same doxxing rules apply to journalists”

Twitter suspended several high-profile journalists Thursday evening who have been covering the company and Elon Musk.

Musk is now arguing that sharing links to the Mastodon account of ElonJet, which uses publicly available radar data to track his private jet, is akin to giving out “assassination coordinates.” https://twitter.com/...
2022-12-16 View on X
TechCrunch

Twitter suspends Mastodon's account and prevents links to Mastodon servers from being tweeted or added to profile bios, calling them “harmful” and “malware”

A day after Twitter crafted a new policy to explain its decision to ban an account that tracks Elon Musk's private jet, the fallout continues.

2022-04-07
Artificial intelligence just took a huge leap forward. You can now type literally any phrase such as “a koala dunking a basketball” and OpenAI's DALL•E 2 system will create a realistic image https://twitter.com/...
2022-04-07 View on X
The Verge

OpenAI releases DALL-E 2, a higher-resolution and lower-latency version of its text-to-image generation program with new capabilities, to researchers in preview

Researchers can sign up to preview it  —  Artificial intelligence research group OpenAI has created a new version of DALL-E, its text-to-image generation program.

2022-02-22
SCOOP: Tried the Truth Social beta. But not the one Trump & his fans are testing, the one used internally by his team, which left the site publicly accessible online (again). Registered @realDonaldTrump & found a user praising dictator Augusto Pinochet https://www.dailydot.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2022-02-22 View on X
CNET

Trump Media & Technology Group debuts Truth Social on the US App Store, where the free app hit No. 1; some users got errors or were waitlisted when signing up

Market summary: 📊  —  India opened the week lower, as investors struggle to read Putin's mood. James Farrell / SiliconANGLE : Donald Trump's social media app Truth Social debuts to...

In case you missed it: Got access to the Truth Social beta used internally by the development team after they left it publicly accessible online (again). Devs were training the system to flag pics of guns & calls for storming the Capitol. https://www.dailydot.com/... #TruthSocial
2022-02-22 View on X
CNET

Trump Media & Technology Group debuts Truth Social on the US App Store, where the free app hit No. 1; some users got errors or were waitlisted when signing up

Market summary: 📊  —  India opened the week lower, as investors struggle to read Putin's mood. James Farrell / SiliconANGLE : Donald Trump's social media app Truth Social debuts to...

2022-02-21
SCOOP: Tried the Truth Social beta. But not the one Trump & his fans are testing, the one used internally by his team, which left the site publicly accessible online (again). Registered @realDonaldTrump & found a user praising dictator Augusto Pinochet https://www.dailydot.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2022-02-21 View on X
CNET

Trump Media & Technology Group launches Truth Social in the US App Store; some users received error messages or were placed on a waitlist when signing up

Some people who downloaded the social media app received error messages when they tried to create an account.  Others were placed on a waitlist.

2022-02-15
It appears GiveSendGo has taken its entire site down after the names and emails of roughly 92k donors to the Freedom Convoy was leaked. Despite the leak of donor data and other sensitive data over the past week, the company has seemingly declined to inform its users. https://twitter.com/...
2022-02-15 View on X
VICE

Christian fundraising site GiveSendGo is offline, possibly due to a hack, amid a leak of alleged personal info of ~92K donors to the Canadian “Freedom Convoy”

2021-10-23
Was just able to setup an account using the handle @donaldtrump on ‘Truth Social,’ former President Donald Trump's new social media website. Although the site is not officially open, a URL was discovered allowing users to sign up anyway. https://twitter.com/...
2021-10-23 View on X
The Verge

Software Freedom Conservancy says TRUTH Social violates Mastodon's open source code licensing terms by not sharing its source code, gives it 30 days to comply

Truth Social ripped off open-source platform Mastodon  —  The Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) says former President Donald Trump's …

Was just able to setup an account using the handle @donaldtrump on ‘Truth Social,’ former President Donald Trump's new social media website. Although the site is not officially open, a URL was discovered allowing users to sign up anyway. https://twitter.com/...
2021-10-23 View on X
Washington Post

The TOS for TRUTH Social shows it bans “excessive use of capital letters”, reserves the right to ban users, and hopes to benefit from Section 230 protections

And What Isn't Nathaniel Mott / PCMag : Things Aren't Going Well for Trump's Social Network Arwa Mahdawi / The Guardian : A ‘non-cancellable’ community: the ‘truth’ about Trump's s...

2021-10-21
Was just able to setup an account using the handle @donaldtrump on ‘Truth Social,’ former President Donald Trump's new social media website. Although the site is not officially open, a URL was discovered allowing users to sign up anyway. https://twitter.com/...
2021-10-21 View on X
ABC News

Trump announces the Trump Media & Technology Group and TRUTH Social, a social network coming in Nov. to “stand up” to Big Tech, in the App Store for preorder

The former president has been banned from several platforms.  —  Silenced by many major platforms …

A fake Ron Watkins account has of course already been created as well https://twitter.com/...
2021-10-21 View on X
ABC News

Trump announces the Trump Media & Technology Group and TRUTH Social, a social network coming in Nov. to “stand up” to Big Tech, in the App Store for preorder

The former president has been banned from several platforms.  —  Silenced by many major platforms …

2021-10-09
Notice anything strange about the faint background image behind some games on Twitch today? It's the same wide-eyed photo of Jeff Bezos that appeared in the 4chan post announcing the leak. Twitch hasn't commented on what caused the issue. https://www.theverge.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2021-10-09 View on X
The Verge

Sources say Twitch valued speed and profit over user safety and data security, regularly choosing not to disclose security issues, including one in 2017

Bad security practices made the breach seem inevitable to former employees  —  A massive security breach at Twitch has exposed a wealth …