Joseph Cox

Co-Founder and Journalist at 404 Media

Hacking/crime/privacy journalist. Author of DARK WIRE. Co-founder of @404mediaco. Signal: +44 20 8133 5190. Email: [email protected]

Articles

Well, Well, Well: Meta to Add Facial Recognition To Glasses After All

6 days ago | 404media.co | Joseph Cox

On Wednesday, The Information reported that Meta is working on facial recognition for the company’s Ray-Ban glasses. This sort of technology—combining facial recognition with a camera feed—is something that big tech including Meta has been able to technically pull off, but has previously decided to not release.
Signal Clone TeleMessage Deleted Video About How It Works-Here’s What It Said

1 week ago | 404media.co | Joseph Cox

Earlier this week TeleMessage, the company that creates modified versions of messaging apps like Signal and adds an archiving ability to them, made a video private on its YouTube channel that explained how its Signal message archiving tool worked, and how the company says it is able to copy messages securely.
Podcast: The Trump Admin's Signal Clone Was Hacked

1 week ago | 404media.co | Joseph Cox

We start this week's episode with our massive story on TeleMessage, the Signal clone the Trump administration uses to archive messages which was hacked. We have more detail than anyone else on that story. After the break, Jason tells us about another hack, this time GlobalX Air, one of the airlines used by ICE for deportation flights. In the subscribers-only section, Sam and Emanuel tell us about the shut down of Mr. Deepfakes, and what the lasting legacy of the site will be.
Senator Demands Investigation into Trump Admin Signal Clone After 404 Media Investigation

1 week ago | 404media.co | Joseph Cox

On Tuesday a Senator demanded the Department of Justice investigate “the serious threat to U.S. national security” posed by TeleMessage, a company that makes aa Signal clone used by the Trump administration which 404 Media revealed was hacked on Sunday, with the hacker obtaining the content of some users’ messages and group chats. The news is the latest piece of fallout from the TeleMessage hack and the Trump administration’s use of Signal, or insecure modified versions, more broadly.
GlobalX, Airline for Trump’s Deportations, Hacked

1 week ago | 404media.co | Joseph Cox

Hackers have targeted GlobalX Air, one of the main airlines the Trump administration is using as part of its deportation efforts, and stolen what they say are flight records and passenger manifests of all of its flights, including those for deportation, 404 Media has learned.
The Signal Clone the Trump Admin Uses Was Hacked

1 week ago | 404media.co | Joseph Cox

A hacker has breached and stolen customer data from TeleMessage, an obscure Israeli company that sells modified versions of Signal and other messaging apps to the U.S. government to archive messages, 404 Media has learned. The data stolen by the hacker contains the contents of some direct messages and group chats sent using its Signal clone, as well as modified versions of WhatsApp, Telegram, and WeChat.
The Signal Clone the Trump Admin Uses Was Hacked

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Joseph Cox |Micah Lee

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Mike Waltz Accidentally Reveals Obscure App the Government Is Using to Archive Signal Messages

1 week ago | 404media.co | Joseph Cox

Mike Waltz, who was until Thursday U.S. National Security Advisor, has inadvertently revealed he is using an obscure and unofficial version of Signal that is designed to archive messages, raising questions about what classification of information officials are discussing on the app and how that data is being secured, 404 Media has found. On Thursday Reuters published a photograph of Waltz checking his mobile phone during a cabinet meeting held by Donald Trump.
‘TheTrillionDollarDinner.Gov’ Registered Around Time of Trump’s Pay-to-Play Memecoin Dinner Announcement

2 weeks ago | 404media.co | Joseph Cox

The U.S. government registered thetrilliondollardinner.govaround the time Donald Trump announced people who invested in the president’s cryptocurrency, $TRUMP, could win a chance to meet him, according to a lawyer who spotted the domain and 404 Media’s corroboration of those findings. The government also registered the domains dinnerforamerica.gov, and thetrillion.gov.
Podcast: Meta's AI Chatbots Are a Disaster

2 weeks ago | 404media.co | Joseph Cox

This week we start with Sam's very in-depth story on Meta's AI chatbots, and how they're essentially posing as licensed therapists. After the break, Jason breaks down the wildly unethical AI-powered research that took place on Reddit. In the subscribers-only section, Joseph explains how the age of realtime deepfake fraud is here after he got a bunch of videos showing scammers do their thing. Listen to the weekly podcast on Apple Podcasts,Spotify, or YouTube.