This week's Surveillance Report covers OpenAI's plan to prioritize sponsored content in ChatGPT answers, what to do if you're targeted by government spyware, Meta's secret playbook for avoiding scammer accountability, and more!
Episode Timestamps
00:00 Intro to Surveillance Report
00:37 OpenAI Sponsored Content
05:20 How to Handle Government Spyware
12:38 Our Sponsor: EasyOptOuts!
14:15 Meta Embracing Scammers
22:02 Defense Bulletin
Episode Sources
Highlight: ChatGPT Ads Will Prioritize Sponsored Content Over Accurate Answers
Story 1: Targeted by Government Spyware? Here's What You Need to Know
- https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/29/youve-been-targeted-by-government-spyware-now-what/
- https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/27/meet-the-team-that-investigates-when-journalists-and-activists-get-hacked-with-government-spyware/
Story 2: Leaked Documents Reveal Meta's Playbook to Avoid Scammer Crackdowns
The Defense Bulletin
- https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cisa-orders-federal-agencies-to-patch-mongobleed-flaw-actively-exploited-in-attacks/
- https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/exploited-mongobleed-flaw-leaks-mongodb-secrets-87k-servers-exposed/
- https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/rondodox-botnet-exploits-react2shell-flaw-to-breach-nextjs-servers/
- https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-errtraffic-service-enables-clickfix-attacks-via-fake-browser-glitches/
- https://cyberpress.org/darkspectre-hackers-malware/
- https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/european-space-agency-confirms-breach-of-external-servers/
- https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/12/conde-nast-user-database-reportedly-breached-ars-unaffected/
- https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/trust-wallet-says-7-million-crypto-theft-attack-drained-2-596-wallets/
- https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/korean-air-data-breach-exposes-data-of-thousands-of-employees/
- https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/romanian-energy-provider-hit-by-gentlemen-ransomware-attack/
- https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/12/massive-rainbow-six-siege-exploit-floods-players-with-billions-of-credits-and-ban-waves/
- https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/12/-e-os-3-3-brings-improved-murena-workspace-integration-and-tracking-notification-removal/
- https://f-droid.org/en/2025/12/30/a-faster-heart-for-f-droid.html
- https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/12/libreoffice-viewer-launched-for-meta-quest-vr-on-horizon-os/
- https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/12/cosmic-desktop-now-available-for-testing-on-sparkylinux/
- https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/12/omv8-released-with-debian-13-base-amd64-and-arm64-support-only/
- https://ente.io/blog/introducing-rituals-public-links-ente-photos/
- https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-Linux-2025-Highlights
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