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Thomas Brewster @thomasbrewster.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Now reading the criminal complaint and it appears my emails to Oxygen were acquired by federal investigators and my reporting cited as a source for business records... Wild.

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Thomas Brewster @thomasbrewster.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Quick idea, let’s not build the robots that could basically procreate and kill everyone.

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Thomas Brewster @thomasbrewster.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

🚨 NEW 🚨 Yoni Ramon spent a decade at Tesla, hacking cars and robots and AI systems. Now he's teaming up with former Microsoft researcher Guy Arazi to launch Pi, an AI agent that learns everything about your company to learn how best to stop it being hacked. www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...

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Thomas Brewster @thomasbrewster.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

I enjoyed this typo from @jasonkoebler.bsky.social ... Reddit is serving ass, yes indeed.

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Thomas Brewster @thomasbrewster.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

FYI - Palantir got its biggest ICE contract yet under Trump with an $86m deal...

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Thomas Brewster @thomasbrewster.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Why the actual fuck would any successful creative writer want to do this job for Mercor? Hey, come do this job so you can really screw over the industry of which you dreamed of becoming a part.

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Thomas Brewster @thomasbrewster.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Just Sharon Osbourne saying she loves an AI-generated song by an AI far-right rapper... www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...

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Thomas Brewster @thomasbrewster.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Also something I've never seen before: Cloudflare being ordered to "collect all IPs" going through a customer's proxy. In an investigation into the Caffeine Store cybercrime bazaar. Cloudflare has been served with pen register orders many times before, but first time I've seen it in a court doc.

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Thomas Brewster @thomasbrewster.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Never seen anything like this before... Mega being asked to try a specific password against "all" accounts. Unclear if this is just a range of accounts of interest or every single Mega account in existence. From a CSAM investigation.

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Thomas Brewster @thomasbrewster.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Here's HSI accidentally destroying iPhones in a major drug trafficking investigation at the Mexico border. They've asked Apple to provide data instead. Related: www.forbes.com/sites/the-wi...

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Thomas Brewster @thomasbrewster.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

I just got served an AI generated ad on YouTube for... Tai Chi?

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Thomas Brewster @thomasbrewster.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Interesting - I'd heard of a cop's account getting hacked on at least one occasion. One thing I will note, however, is that Flock has been pushing and in some cases enforcing multi-factor authentication, per public records. See here for an email sent by Flock to a customer...

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Thomas Brewster @thomasbrewster.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Right, to clear up this 'FBI hacked Telegram' narrative. Here's the snippet from the warrant that shows it's using access to the subject device and the relevant passwords to get info from the account. cc @seamushughes.bsky.social @vxundergroundre.bsky.social @zackwhittaker.com

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Thomas Brewster @thomasbrewster.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Here are some of the phishing messages that the hackers used to get into the accounts of shippers with Instacart and Target-owned rival Shipt. www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...

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Thomas Brewster @thomasbrewster.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

The FBI froze a guy's crypto account because he was allegedly linked to a $7m pig butchering scam that promised AI-juiced investments. According to the DOJ's account, he tried to bribe the FBI into releasing his $3m in digital funds. Maybe not the smartest move...

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Thomas Brewster @thomasbrewster.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Well this is brutal from a pig butchering scammer to their victim... "Glad to use your life savings."

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Thomas Brewster @thomasbrewster.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

The Hells Angels will sue to stop companies doing rip off merch...

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Thomas Brewster @thomasbrewster.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the first example I've seen of a federal search warrant on Telegram. Unfortunately, the affidavit is sealed. But this follows Telegram's announcement it would start accepting orders from US agencies like the FBI, which is asking for the info here.

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