Privacy & Security

Stop Calling It Security. The Login Wall Is a Data Trap

You click a link to read a simple answer, and suddenly you’re hit with a login wall. We’re told it’s for security, but it’s a calculated lie. Platforms don’t block content to protect creatorsโ€”they block it to harvest your phone number and convert your anonymous IP into a monetizable data asset.

The ‘One Person + AI Kills a Company’ Myth is a Dangerous Lie

Everyone is obsessed with the myth that one person plus an AI Agent squad can replace an entire company. It’s dangerous nonsense. The truly scarce asset isn’t someone who knows how to use AI, but someone who can design the three-layer protocols for human-machine collaboration. In the next five years, trust will be scarcer than compute.

Missouri’s New ‘Privacy Guardrails’ Are a Trap. And We’re Walking Right In.

Missouriโ€™s new ‘guardrails’ on license plate readers are being hailed as a privacy win. They aren’t. By shifting the debate from whether cameras should exist to how long data is stored, the state has successfully normalized mass surveillance. The real fight isn’t between privacy advocates and the stateโ€”it’s between people who want some cameras and people who want them everywhere.

Your City Is Using Insecure Cameras to Track You. Hackers Proved It.

Hackers broke into a Flock mass surveillance camera and exposed the system’s crumbling security. The company that tracks your every move can’t even protect its own data โ€” and the broader surveillance industry, from Flock to Axon, is just as fragile. This isn’t a tech failure. It’s an indictment of a system that watches us all while being blind to its own weaknesses.