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Derek B. Johnson @derekbjohnson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

NEW: I spoke to lawmakers, cybersecurity lawyers and former law enforcement officials, and calls to hold AI companies legally accountable for agentic hacks are growing. How precisely that would work under current U.S. laws and regulations is not clear. cyberscoop.com/ai-agent-hac...

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The legal questions raised by agentic AI hacks

Lawmakers and legal experts debate using the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, FTC regulations, or new federal laws to hold frontier AI companies liable as autonomous AI agents escape sandboxes and execut...

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Derek B. Johnson @derekbjohnson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I don't always mention it in every single article I write on distillation - maybe I should - but I do try to make it a regular part of my reporting. cyberscoop.com/white-house-... cyberscoop.com/us-accuses-c...

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Derek B. Johnson @derekbjohnson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

There are other options: the FTC, states, civil lawsuits and legislative updates from Congress, but none are easy or ideal. If you've asked yourself "Why can't they just use [XYZ] approach to prosecute or regulate agentic hacks?" spend a few minutes of your Friday digging into this one.

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Derek B. Johnson @derekbjohnson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Believe it or not, these hacks appear to exist in a sort of legal black hole. Many of the people I spoke to said the details of incidents like the HuggingFace hack make them poor fits for criminal hacking charges under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act or other federal laws.

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The legal questions raised by agentic AI hacks

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Derek B. Johnson @derekbjohnson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The legacy of DOGE: when a powerful org wants to break a lot of laws or cross moral lines, they need to put young, overly confident but ultimately ignorant teenagers in positions of power to do it, because older people are generally wiser about being made obvious puppets and fallguys.

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Inkstick Media @inkstickmedia.com · 02/10/2026

"He writes how he found it bizarre, naive even, that as a student and then as a permanent resident in the US, he was told that speaking out was a protected right, that there were certain legal principles that couldn’t be violated. Then one day masked men showed up at his house."

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In New Memoir, Mahmoud Khalil Takes on Immigrant Detention

In his new memoir, Palestinian refugee and activist Mahmoud Khalil writes of his time locked away in immigrant detention.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The 2020 election has been relentlessly studied by our most experienced experts and by our most craven partisan hacks for 6y now, and every examination has wound up demonstrating the integrity of Biden’s victory in that election and the malignity of Trump’s obsession with undermining it.

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Derek B. Johnson @derekbjohnson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Like when Michael went to MLB, I have no regrets.

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MuckRock @muckrock.com · 01/10/2026

Hi Bluesky! 👋🏾 I’m Lyneka, MuckRock’s new Audience and Community Lead. I’m excited to be here! Looking forward to helping to build an even stronger community around MuckRock’s work.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026

I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president

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Derek B. Johnson @derekbjohnson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

FYI, nonprofits like the Digital Democracy Institute of the Americas do routinely track and contextualize Spanish-language "narratives" (they avoid using the terms disinformation or propaganda) spreading online. It's a valuable resource for English-only speakers.. ddia.org/en/get-invol...

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Get Involved | DDIA - Digital Democracy Institute of the Americas

The Digital Democracy Institute of the Americas (DDIA) is bringing together insights and actors across the Western Hemisphere to shape a more participatory, inclusive, and resilient digital democracy.

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CyberScoop @cyberscoop.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Microsoft says the cyberespionage campaign has hit U.S. and U.K. targets, relying on sheer volume and requiring only a single victim interaction. Read more by @timstarks.bsky.social: cyberscoop.com/microsoft-st...

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"IR people writ large" or even "the blob (as originally defined) in general" are painting with too broad a brush here, but it is a completely true statement that anyone who ID's as a MENA specialist has loudly and explicitly been advocating for bombing iran in exactly this fashion for decades

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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 29/09/2026

After lunch with AI leaders, Trump rejects new federal AI rules, says "we automatically have regulation" via DOJ and FBI but "self-regulation is very important" (Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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🦇🎃💀 Riana-mator 💀🎃🦇 @riana.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Reading paragraphs 95-100 and learning that every time I stop working on something to respond to a news event, I have standing to sue whoever caused the news event to happen, for "forcing [me] to redirect [my] limited resources away from [my] existing or planned projects." lasst.org/wp-content/u...

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Derek B. Johnson @derekbjohnson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I don't remember who this person was but Tracey Jordan would have her most current email, I'd imagine.

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Derek B. Johnson @derekbjohnson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"I'll make different emotional faces as I'm running around and scream stuff like 'He's too powerful!' and 'Get the amulet!' Just use the parts that make the most sense for whatever it is you guys are trying to do."

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Derek B. Johnson @derekbjohnson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

There's gotta be someone in that big 30 Rock office who can help you with this.

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ponder @ponder.ooo · 29/09/2026

person talking to computer, saying "will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?"
computer replies ">you got it, boss"
person replies "oh my god."

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Derek B. Johnson @derekbjohnson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I once left a job bc I felt they weren't serious about investing in journalism and were headed toward irrelevance. Just left. No job lined up. I knew I'd find a better org that reflected my values. Maybe I'd be wrong (spoiler: i wasn't) but at least I'd have my dignity. This is genocide.

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Derek B. Johnson @derekbjohnson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You can just resign. Nobody is making you work for the President of the United States while he facilitates an overseas genocide. Nobody can make you work anywhere, actually. That's a choice you're making, and it's far from the only sin these guys are accused of in this story.

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Derek B. Johnson @derekbjohnson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

IMO it's very much sinking in right now in AI world that they are in for a world of hurt and backlash next Congress. How else do you get OpenAI not even bothering to notify the Australian government about this stuff in a timely fashion. The incident happened three months ago!

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

(the specific example doing the rounds this morning is Batman related but a huge amount of media criticism online is written with all the spirit, artistic understanding, and joy of a Soviet censor on a grey winter morning in 1951)

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Derek B. Johnson @derekbjohnson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I feel like "I painstakingly wrote/rewrote/made/edited this thing obsessively until it was exactly the way I wanted it" is something that a lot of creators used to aspire to that would fill them with pride.

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Derek B. Johnson @derekbjohnson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Welcome to cybersecurity/ The difficulty of the job is not evidence that the underlying security problems are novel."

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Cyber Security — It’s Not F*cking Easy

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Derek B. Johnson @derekbjohnson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Lesson #3 that OpenAI's security team learned - in *Summer 2026* - is that having a variety of outside tools to monitor agent behavior and enforce security policy is important. These are all things that apply to every other industry and sector on the planet. They're hard but not unsolvable.

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Derek B. Johnson @derekbjohnson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Still thinking about this account (confirmed by other reporters, but not me, as a current OpenAI security employee) that is titled "It's not just about the fucking sandbox" and then literally cites as their first lessons learned a bunch of stuff that amounts to "build a better sandbox."

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Joe (@joedaroo) on X

Its not just the f*cking sandbox

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Derek B. Johnson @derekbjohnson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You know what's interesting about the aviation and nuclear power sectors is......they have a lot of regulation.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

some mfers need this bsky.app/profile/patr...

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Derek B. Johnson @derekbjohnson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Jan. 6, but for four years" is a pretty apt description of where we are.

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Derek B. Johnson @derekbjohnson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yeah, this is happening more and more in a political world where no one feels they can achieve an actual electoral mandate. Biden's people viewed the 2022 midterms as a total validation of their OWN competence - something that turned out to be wildly absurd and incorrect.

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CyberScoop @cyberscoop.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The bill, introduced by Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., would attempt to establish a federal mechanism to investigate incidents where AI models escape sandbox environments and access live internet systems. Read more by @derekbjohnson.bsky.social: cyberscoop.com/new-bill-wou...

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CyberScoop @cyberscoop.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Three justices wrote in a dissent that longstanding privacy laws protecting sensitive personal data held by the government should prevent the use of the database. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmP1... Read more by @derekbjohnson.bsky.social: cyberscoop.com/supreme-cour...

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Supreme Court permits states to use SAVE database for citizenship checks

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Heather Randell @heatherrandell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Yet another example of how AI can be useful *once you already have deep knowledge and experience in a field* whereas using it as a student actively prevents the acquisition of that knowledge. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

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Opinion | A.I. Has Made Me a Better Doctor. It’s Made Med Students Worse. (Gift Article)

I’m confident in my mastery over what doctors do — and less confident about my continued mastery of an ever-evolving universe of facts.

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 23/09/2026

You can't be posting this without the full text, where he says the problem is "fake and gay ads" and calls for Donald Trump to campaign harder in Iowa. They aren't just panicking, they're completely oblivious to how to solve the problem.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

So much of what we’re living through right now, from Trump to AI, feels like it’s driven by an explicit strategy of “we just do the crimes so quickly that we can’t be stopped and by the time the courts weigh in, they have no choice but to accept our crimes.” www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/it-s-the-a...

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It's the accountability, stupid.

Doing crime

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Derek B. Johnson @derekbjohnson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

You're still alive! I need an official "Good Stuff" as proof of life here.

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