Nothing is more frustrating to me than a podcast where I can’t find the RSS Feed link. Well, it occurs to me that I didn’t make mine readily visible . . . until now. If you want the raw RSS feed, go to https://www.littlebrotherpodcast.com/feed/podcast/ and enjoy!
Tracking cars by the TPMS. Lawsuit against Flock. Meta “Data Annotators” see you having sex. South Korea lost some seized cryptocurrency. Florida has a problem with nurses having free speech. The UK has a problem with anyone having free speech.
Censorship in social media now serving to quash corporate criticism. The cloud is now a literal military target. More age verification fuckery. Keep your personal and work devices separate.
Listener letter: Julie Bernstein
Pwns: Stryker, Signal (sorta), US Government.
Fail: North Dakota, Tennessee
Links:
I traced $2 billion in nonprofit grants and 45 states of lobbying records to figure out who’s behind the age verification bills. The answer involves a company that profits from your data writing laws that collect more of it. [PDF] [Internet Archive]
I pulled the actual bill text from 5 state age verification laws. They’re copy-pasted from two templates. Meta is funding one to dodge ~$50B in COPPA fines — and the other one covers Linux. [PDF] [Internet Archive]
Follow-up to my bill text comparison: I traced who wrote the OS-level age verification template that covers Linux. Meta, Google, and Snap all supported it. [PDF] [Internet Archive]
Stop Paramount Mega-Media Monopoly
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San Jose California police chief is “recommending a series of changes to how Flock cameras are used.” Flock camera vandalism on the rise. Yes, Ring actually did want to look for people. App locates Meta glasses near you.
Palantir is having problems recruiting. Age verification provider leaks. California, Arizona and Colorado all want age verification in the OS. Anthropic has an interesting week.
Listener letter: Micky of Agaric
Pwn: Iran power grid
Fail: Meta glasses in a courtroom
Links:
Nearby Glasses on the Google Play store and Github
Information about Colossus: The Forbin Project on Wikipedia and IMDB.
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European governments ditching US-based apps. France raids the offices of X. Acting director of CISA uploads sensitive docs to ChatGPT. Albertsons adding tracking devices to their grocery carts.
Alert: Notepad++ supply chain attack
Focus: Pen testers win settlement from Dallas County, Idaho for wrongful arrest.
Focus: Mountain View, CA stops using Flock cameras. Ring inks deal with Flock, then changes their mind, then freaks people out with Superbowl ad.
Opsec: Apple lockdown mode tested under fire and passes. Authorities can’t make you produce a password.
Pwn: Anti-ICE, Polish power grid
Fail: Sainsbury’s
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Jamming GPS might break Starlink? No more private communications in the UK. ICE goes on a shopping spree. Have you been Flocked? AI-powered pranksters complicate the search for escaped monkeys. The worst of show from CES were AI powered. AI is not paying off. Washington Post journalist gets raided.
Stop using the default app for texting! Microsoft gave BitLocker keys to the FBI.
Fail: Verizon 5G outage on 2026-01-14.
Links:
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Note: This episode begins with a recording from shortwave radio. Do not adjust your set.
NIST loses track of time. Bytedance spins off US operations of TikTok. Foreign-made drones banned . . . psyche! Toby Morton’s impression of The Yes Men. Utah lets AI prescribe drugs. Librarians under attack by ignoramuses led by AI. Nonprofit locates AI data centers. UK age verification law makes things worse. Signal is now the #1 communication app in Greenland and Denmark.
Interview: Tim Fake on AI
Commentary: Vote for privacy.
Pwn: OrthoNY, Condé Nast
Fail: The US government, and the US government
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India forces state surveillance app on smartphone users. So does the UK. Graphene no longer using French hosting provider because of French law. Thieves using Wi-Fi jammers to evade cameras. Retail price fuckery coming to the physical world. Texas sues TV makers over surveillance. Crucial RAM is off the market.
Pwn: Pornhub via Mixpanel, Marquis Data Solutions.
Flock cameras to be installed in Oakland, CA after intense lobbying. Flock cameras not to be installed in Poestenkill, NY after backlash. Don’t get BORT for a license plate.
Primer on AI types. Problems with Agentic AI.
Opsec:Why your family needs a safeword.
Fail: Apple
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Sorry to do this right after coming back, but due to a personal emergency, I don’t have time this weekend to produce an episode. Look for Episode 166 on 2025-12-21.
AI-powered toys. VPN bans. FCC cybersecurity rules rolled back. Firings at a healthcare provider over security. Zorin Linux gains 780,000 users because of Windows 10 retirement.
CISA alert warns that users of Signal, What’s App and Telegram may be targeted.
Cloudflare problem takes down (much of) the Internet. Old man yells at cloud. More Flock Security fun.
Pwn: SitusAMC, Waste Management
Fail: Kingston Riverside Christmas mural
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CISA no longer supports election security. DHS deploys high-tech network to . . . football games . . . college football games. Zohran Mamdani inherits a surveillance machine. Space-X gets their wires crossed.
Follow up to the Marion Record story from two years ago.
A new strategy against Flock Security cameras.
Pwn: The Louvre.
Fail: iLife
Links:
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I have heard you saying you want another season.
I was going to let the series fade into the Ethernet, in the hopes that I would not jump the shark, but I’ve gotten a couple of requests for a new season, oddly enough all of them just in the past week, so . . . I will create one.
Look for a new episode on November 16th! I don’t even know yet what I’m going to talk about, but I am sure will find something interesting between new and then, because there are always interesting things going on.
Talk to you soon!