Wildlife Cops Are Searching AI Cameras for ICE
4/8/202650 min
This week we start with Jason’s story about how wildlife cops are doing Flock lookups for ICE. It shows that ICE is gaining access to this sort of information through pretty unexpected ways. After the break, Emanuel tells us all about the AI ban at Wikipedia. In the subscribers-only section, Joseph breaks down a set of vulnerabilities in the ‘secure’ chat app TeleGuard. 0:00 - Intro 1:03 - Wildlife Conservation Police Are Searching Thousands of Flock Cameras for ICE 27:55 - Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content 34:33 - An AI Agent Was Banned From Creating Wikipedia Articles, Then Wrote Angry Blogs About Being Banned Subscriber's Story - A Secure Chat App’s Encryption Is So Bad It Is ‘Meaningless’ Youtube Version: https://youtu.be/YrHYwCb5aM8 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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First 90 secondsJason Koebler· Host0:00
I'm very worried that this is maybe the last batch of transparency reports that we're going to get that are going to be useful because Flock keeps reducing the amount of information that's available.
Joseph Cox· Host0:10
[upbeat music] Hello, and welcome to the "404 Media" podcast, where we bring you unparalleled access to hidden worlds, both online and IRL. "404 Media" is a journalist-founded company and needs your support to subscribe. Go to fourohfourmedia.co. As well as bonus content every single week, subscribers also get access to additional episodes where we respond to their best comments. Gain access to that content at fourohfourmedia.co. I'm your host, Joseph, and with me are all of the "404 Media" co-founders, the first being Sam Cole.
Sam Cole· Host0:45
Hey.
Joseph Cox· Host0:46
Emmanuel Maiberg.
Emanuel Maiberg· Host0:47
Hello.
Joseph Cox· Host0:48
And Jason Keppler.
Jason Koebler· Host0:50
Hello. Hello.
Joseph Cox· Host0:51
All right, let's get straight into it. So this first one is from Jason, and it's-- I mean, on one hand, it's something of an update or a continuation of coverage we've been doing. But on the other, I mean, a very sizable and significant new story in its own right, and we'll get into it. The headline is Wildlife Conservation Police are Searching Thousands of Flock Cameras for ICE. There's definitely gonna be some recapping in this because, you know, maybe not everybody's familiar with Flock or not familiar with our earlier reporting. We'll get to that in a minute. But first, what is this