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Doxers Posing as Cops Are Tricking Big Tech Firms Into Sharing People’s Private Data
A spoofed email address and an easily faked document is all it takes for major tech companies to hand over your most personal information.
👉 https://www.wired.com/stor…

Each week, Metacurity is proud to offer our free and premium subscribers a digest of the best long-form (and longish) infosec-related pieces we couldn't properly fit into our daily news crush.
This week's selection covers
--Thai citizens are trafficked to unlock bank accounts with facial ID,
--Texas police deploy AI surveillance with little transparency,
--Bot swarms threaten democracy,
--Digital age checks erode privacy, security, and free speech,
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Best infosec-related long reads for the week of 2/7/26
Thai citizens are trafficked to unlock bank accounts with facial ID, Texas police deploy AI surveillance with little transparency, Bot swarms threaten democracy, Digital age checks erode privacy, security, and free speech, Promptware attacks could pose Stuxnet-scale cyber threats.

Eric Stokes, Jack Bech, Darien Porter and Dont'e Thornton Scrums | Week 11 vs. Cowboys https://www.raiders.com/video/eric-stokes-jack-bech-darien-porter-donte-thornton-scrums-week-11-cowboys

yall check out what @… just dropped
"this script will search through the list of towns with 500 people or more that I found on geonames.org and give you a random location, based on how populous that town and that country are."

I told someone to use Mastodon 😭😭😭

US volunteer fire departments are scrambling to find software amid shrinking options and higher costs, as companies backed by private equity dominate the market (Mike Baker/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/us/fire-department-software-priva…

Rural Fire Departments Squeezed By Software Prices As Investors Profit
Rural departments have long relied on cheap software solutions to keep their operations running. But fire chiefs report sharp price increases as investors have entered the market.

Just in time for Valentine's Day, you can share your password with your partner, but I would reconsider if I were you. It's OK to keep something private.
Bitwarden has launched a new system called ‘Cupid Vault’ that allows users to safely share passwords with trusted email addresses.

Bitwarden introduces ‘Cupid Vault’ for secure password sharing
Bitwarden has launched a new system called 'Cupid Vault' that allows users to safely share passwords with trusted email addresses.

https://www.wired.com/story/doxers-posing-as-cops-are-tricking-big-tech-firms-into-sharing-peoples-private-data/

Doxers Posing as Cops Are Tricking Big Tech Firms Into Sharing People's Private Data
A spoofed email address and an easily faked document is all it takes for major tech companies to hand over your most personal information.