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hacker collective fighting tech-enabled abuse. ended 2025-01-01. website: cabal.cx newsletter: hatemail.io members: NY Cyber Abuse Taskforce curators: Museum of Modern Malware at DEFCON

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Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 28/04/2026
Thanks for letting me present @brooklynwebworkers.com ! For anyone who missed the link, here it is, chock full of useful resources - aramzs.me/privacynow
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Broken by Design - Ad Tech and What We Can Do About It
This is the first banner ad. Created for an AT&T advertising campaign in 1994 by Wired Magazine it is perhaps the most influential thing to ever happen to the internet. No single thing has done more t...
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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
There is a whole underworld of exploited workers who make up the foundation of digital tech. We talk about content moderators, but content farms are also very exploitative industries where moderately educated people with reasonable English skills in the global majority are used to push content.
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cabal @cabal.cx · 05/08/2025
this badge detects cops windowsvista.club #defcon33 #hackersummercamp #BH2025 #badgelife
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WINDOWS VISTA SOCIAL CLUB
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cabal @cabal.cx · 01/08/2025
our defcon 2025 party site and badge sales are live, along with an OSINT challenge: windowsvista.club
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WINDOWS VISTA SOCIAL CLUB
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cabal @cabal.cx · 19/07/2025
featured here in a zine on counter surveillance by 8-ball at the NY State Zine Fair in NYC: fun zine fair find today Cabal: Now defunct international hacker collective combatting tech-enabled abuse. You can still view their resources (cabal.cx/resources/)
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Cabal
Now defunct international hacker collective combatting tech-enabled abuse.
You can still view their resources (https://cabal.cx/resources/), which include recommendations on what to do if you got doxxed, or if you're a sex worker in search of networks and support.
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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
My response to Ring's decision to roll back reforms and go back to surveillance on behalf of police as a business model. This is part of a trend of companies bending over backwards to get in on the techno-authoritarian money/power grab that comes with being a lapdog of the carceral state.
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Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance
Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is back at the helm of the surveillance doorbell company, and with him is the surveillance-first-privacy-last approach that made Ring one of the most maligned tech devices....
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sarcastic parrot @monkchips.com · 27/03/2025
"People skills sustain a career more than technical skills" Alex Chan, Flickr Foundation #monkigras
Woman speaker in front of a slide saying people skills sustain a career more than technical skills
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cabal @cabal.cx · 24/02/2025
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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An Algorithm Told Police She Was Safe. Then Her Husband Killed Her.
Spain has become reliant on an algorithm to score how likely a domestic violence victim may be abused again and what protection to provide — sometimes leading to fatal consequences.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
New — The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) was told this week by DOJ that they'd lose their funding if the org didn't remove any mentions of LGBTQIA+ issues from their public materials, I've learned. Staff were told they need to deadname trans kids in their reports to comply.
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NYC-DSA 🌹 @socialists.nyc · 02/02/2025
🚨TRUMP IS TRYING TO BAN HEALTHCARE FOR TRANS KIDS🚨 NYU Langone is one of the few hospitals in the country that's begun withholding life-saving healthcare for trans kids. Join us for an emergency rally tomorrow. Demand NYU Langone reverse this decision! ⬇️⬇️⬇️ actionnetwork.org/events/prote...
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 29/01/2025
Friends, for something to be open source, we need to see 1. The data it was trained & evaluated on 2. The code 3. Model architecture 4. Model weights. DeepSeek only gives 3, 4. And I'll see the day that anyone gives us #1 without being forced to do so, because all of them are stealing data.
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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 26/01/2025
there are good positive examples - Stop LAPD Spying Coalition, or the group in SD that's been fighting against "smart street lights"; like Civil Rights Corps; like grassroots mask bloc groups that have been fighting mask bans. but they all start from and stay close to the violence people experience.
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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 26/01/2025
i've said this a few times now so i'm sorry if i'm a broken record, but if you go back in time 30 years, you find AI in a very different form than it exists today. go back another 30 years, and again something very different. the academic tradition that falls under that one umbrella is disjointed;
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Broadly Epi @broadlyepi.com · 08/11/2024
Hello everyone! We compiled a list of Trans Inclusive / LGBTQIA+ health resources. Normally we wouldn't ask for engagement, but sharing this around would be deeply appreciated. Remember: You're not alone. We'll endure. www.broadlyepi.com/lgbtqia-heal... #MedSky #LGBTQIA+ #TransRights #HumanRights
A progress pride flag painted onto a street crosswalk, with crosswalk intersection striping on the left hand side.
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cabal @cabal.cx · 19/01/2025
screening Adam Curtis' HYPERNORMALISATION monday 1/20 at 7:30pm eastern. IRL in bushwick, or watch at home at stream.fightdystopia.net
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cabal @cabal.cx · 14/01/2025
our network has raised hundreds of dollars to give firefighters the zyn they need to keep protecting LA from the fires. Thank you!!
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Ryan Castellucci 🜬 @rya.nc · 13/01/2025
I'm nonbinary. I applied for a Gender Recognition Certificate. My application was granted, but I've had to sue the UK to try to get it issued. I've spent about £100k out of pocket already. I'm expecting another £100k in costs for my appeal, which is being heard next week. rya.nc/k7
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Donate to Legalise Nonbinary UK - Help Cover Ryan’s Legal Costs, organized by Ryan Castellucci
Hi, I’m Ryan! I’m a nonbinary person living in the United K… Ryan Castellucci needs your support for Legalise Nonbinary UK - Help Cover Ryan’s Legal Costs
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Blaise Ulysse Bernard Collins @wittywebhandle.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
THIS is what Tech is supposed to fucking be. Do not except anything less.
The VLC team at a booth throwing down their index and middle fingers to make the shape of the iconic VLC cone.

They are also wearing hats in the shape of the cone
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cabal @cabal.cx · 11/01/2025
🚨Download Signal NOW Before Trump Takes Office (if you haven’t already)!🚨 Secure your chats and your right to privacy! #signal #privacy #dontspyonme #security #activist #resistance #techagainstfacsism #LGBTQIA+ #mybodymychoice #reproductivejustice 🧵👇
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Lex @zoracon.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
If y'all haven't seen this really poignant talk by @meredithmeredith.bsky.social, you should. media.ccc.de/v/38c3-feeli...
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Feelings are Facts: Love, Privacy, and the Politics of Intellectual Shame
A debut of new research and analysis, focused on emotions and the affective register—love! shame! intimacy! What happens when we put lov...
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Does it feel like tech is ceasing to evolve in ways that are useful to everyday people, and instead functions to control, placate and diminish us?
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Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 05/01/2025
Foursquare released their Places data as an open source data set, as well as through an API now that their city guide is shutting down. It is sort of a cool idea in theory but as I've been trying to work with my exported archives I found out something...
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 02/01/2025
"The only clue that users seemingly had of Siri's alleged spying was eerily accurate targeted ads that appeared after they had just been talking about specific items like Air Jordans or brands like Olive Garden"
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Siri “unintentionally” recorded private convos; Apple agrees to pay $95M
Apple users may get $20 each for up to five Siri-enabled devices.
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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
"For Project Maven, Google hired hundreds of gig-economy workers to solve numerous CAPTCHAs at an incredibly low cost (roughly $1/hour). The results of these completed CAPTCHAs were then used to develop a classification program for the use of US Military drone applications" Workers had no idea
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Google Hired Gig Economy Workers to Improve Artificial Intelligence in Controversial Drone-Targeting Project
As part of Project Maven, Google's artificial intelligence program for military drones, the tech giant hired unwitting “crowd workers” through Figure Eight.
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rachel @ohhoe.goblinmo.de · 30/12/2024
im rewatching my talk from strange loop 2017 and i love that i open with a Donna Haraway quire and “i am not interested in machine learning and artificial intelligence for commercial applications, don’t tell Microsoft that”. No wonder why i got fired lmao. youtu.be/L4fjPojo1yE?...
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"The Future is Now" by Rachel White
YouTube video by Strange Loop Conference
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Matthew Green @matthewdgreen.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
This Salt Typhoon stuff is insane. The entire FISA surveillance infrastructure has been completely owned by China and literally no part of our telecom infrastructure is safe to use without end-to-end encryption.
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cabal @cabal.cx · 29/12/2024
last of the cabal stickers are at our table, around milliways! #38c3
photo of stickers on a table at 38c3.
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John Breen @breen.tech · 24/12/2024
Build up a RSS feed of news sites you like and read that regularly. Look for the source of any thing posted as “news” without a link attached. Check to see if a screenshot is real. Learn to detect AI-generated content. Read past the headlines. This is all critical media literacy
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willscott⎷ @wills.co.tt · 21/12/2024
Happy winter solstice ☃️ The days get longer from here on out!
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cabal @cabal.cx · 20/12/2024
www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-critic...
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The Critical AI Report, December 2024 Edition
Five important items for understanding the state of AI. READ THIS OR GET LEFT BEHIND.
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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
This is disingenuous marketing. Signal chats can't be 'monitored' by anyone not in those chats. Dressing up "joining groups via publicly posted links, then exfiltrating group data" as an offensive 'cybercapability' borders on misinfo, and confuses/scares ppl who rely on Signal for robust privacy.
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cabal @cabal.cx · 18/12/2024
more friends added! go.bsky.app/JAR9jhy
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
It's true. EFF is an op. Just follow the money. Approximately 1/3rd of my salary is funded by the Newmark Foundation. I am in the pocket of Big Craig.
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Please Follow the Official Guardian Account @guardian-world-rss.bsky.social · 08/01/2024
‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says
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‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says
Pressure grows on artificial intelligence firms over the content used to train their productsBusiness live – latest updatesThe developer OpenAI has said it would be impossible to create tools like its groundbreaking chatbot ChatGPT without access to copyrighted material, as pressure grows on artificial intelligence firms over the content used to train their products.Chatbots such as ChatGPT and image generators like Stable Diffusion are “trained” on a vast trove of data taken from the internet, with much of it covered by copyright – a legal protection against someone’s work being used without permission. Continue reading...
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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
hi new follows! ~ now that many of my media colleagues have set up camp here i would *really* appreciate some help in finding a new role, especially if we’ve worked together in the past 💙
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cabal @cabal.cx · 14/12/2024
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cabal @cabal.cx · 12/12/2024
Venezuelan opposition leader Jesus Armas abducted by Maduro regime pen.org/press-releas...
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PEN America Concerned About the Enforced Disappearance of Jesus Armas - PEN America
(NEW YORK)—PEN America strongly condemns the enforced disappearance of Jesus Armas, a Venezuelan pro-democracy activist and online commentator, who was abducted by six masked agents in an unmarked SUV...
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
There is another batch of bad abortion-related opsec advice going around, so I'm just going to link to Digital Defense Fund's guide to abortion privacy, which is realistic, practical, and explicit in its threat models: digitaldefensefund.org/ddf-guides/a...
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Guide to Abortion Privacy — Digital Defense Fund
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 10/12/2024
“‘We are not evaluating systems for some hypothetical, potential risks in the future,’ Birhane says. ‘These audits are uncovering actual real issues, real problems, whether it’s racism, sexism, or encoding of stereotypes and historical injustices and so on.’”
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How Abeba Birhane is cleaning up AI’s dirty data
“We are not evaluating systems for some hypothetical, potential risks in the future. These audits are uncovering actual real issues, real problems, whether it's racism, sexism, or encoding of stereoty...
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Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف) @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
The idea that dumping all data into "AI" will somehow provide us with unparalleled analysis has been continuously disproven, especially with similar systems like Lavender and Gospel perpetuating mass civilian death. www.technologyreview.com/2024/12/10/1...
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We saw a demo of the new AI system powering Anduril’s vision for war
We’re living through the first drone wars, but AI is poised to even more drastically change the future of warfare.
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itch.io @itch.io · 09/12/2024
I kid you not, @itch.io has been taken down by Funko of "Funko Pop" because they use some trash "AI Powered" Brand Protection Software called Brand Shield that created some bogus Phishing report to our registrar, iwantmyname, who ignored our response and just disabled the domain
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gita “the formalist” jackson @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Here’s the link for the event today! Starts at 3pm ET webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1q...
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New quest unlocked: The Intersection of Gaming and Violent Extremism
In line with the UN Security Council Resolution 2617 (2021) and the Delhi Declaration, UNICRI is committed to countering terrorist and violent extremist exploitation of information communications tech...
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cabal @cabal.cx · 23/11/2024
the friends of cabal starter pack! go.bsky.app/JAR9jhy
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cabal @cabal.cx · 05/12/2024
www.technologyreview.com/2024/12/04/1...
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OpenAI’s new defense contract completes its military pivot
A new partnership with Anduril, announced today, will deploy AI on the battlefield. It represents an overhaul of the company’s position in just a year.
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cabal @cabal.cx · 04/12/2024
arstechnica.com/health/2023/...
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UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges
For the largest health insurer in the US, AI’s error rate is like a feature, not a bug.
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cabal @cabal.cx · 03/12/2024
www.ftc.gov/news-events/...
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FTC Takes Action Against Mobilewalla for Collecting and Selling Sensitive Location Data
The Federal Trade Commission will prohibit data broker Mobilewalla, Inc.
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Mindy Seu on Internet Green: "From Terminal green to Brat green, the author of Cyberfeminism Index investigates the origins and cultural significance of the viral hue." artlab.hyundai.com/editorial/mi... (Pairs nicely with my 2022 piece on green screens!: wordsinspace.net/2022/04/08/g...)
Screenshot of Mindy Seu's article on Internet Green, featuring a terminal spelling out, in green, "How did green come to symbolize the Internet?"
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Grumpy @grumpyyetamusin.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Belgium's sex workers get maternity leave and pensions under world-first law
They will be entitled to official employment contracts, health insurance and sick days.
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