Yael Grauer
@yaelwrites.com
💻 cybersecurity research
🖊️ investigative tech reporting
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✉️ [email protected]
💥#alwaysantifascist
🎤opinions are mine, but you can have some
🖊️ investigative tech reporting
📣yaelwrites.com
✉️ [email protected]
💥#alwaysantifascist
🎤opinions are mine, but you can have some
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Yael Grauer
@yaelwrites.com
· Sep 9
US tech companies enabled the surveillance and detention of hundreds of thousands in China
An AP investigation reveals that U.S. technology companies to a large degree designed and built China’s surveillance state, playing a far greater role in enabling human rights abuses than previously k...
apnews.com
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Arizona is home to 22 Native American Tribes, and we are committed to supporting and uplifting Indigenous communities to uphold Indigenous sovereignty, dignity, and autonomy.
November 27, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Arizona is home to 22 Native American Tribes, and we are committed to supporting and uplifting Indigenous communities to uphold Indigenous sovereignty, dignity, and autonomy.
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leftist family trying to avoid politics at the dinner table (internecine recriminations over who was responsible for the defeat of the republicans in the spanish civil war)
November 27, 2025 at 8:26 PM
leftist family trying to avoid politics at the dinner table (internecine recriminations over who was responsible for the defeat of the republicans in the spanish civil war)
Thankful for...
November 27, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Thankful for...
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listen, i've seen a lot of bullshit that turned my stomach and sent me to therapy etc but lmao this shit's got every gc buzzing like "sorry what the fuck" LITERALLY ALL OF US THINK THIS IS WEIRD
I assume journalists do this stuff all the time. Maybe more on the editorial side, but as a non-journalist, I don’t particularly care what part of the organization is tasked to do the consent-manufacturing. This assumption is based on my observations of journalism in the run up to the Iraq War.
November 27, 2025 at 12:12 AM
listen, i've seen a lot of bullshit that turned my stomach and sent me to therapy etc but lmao this shit's got every gc buzzing like "sorry what the fuck" LITERALLY ALL OF US THINK THIS IS WEIRD
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slapping this sticker on top of the nuzzi-lizza discourse
November 27, 2025 at 12:08 AM
slapping this sticker on top of the nuzzi-lizza discourse
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👀👀👀👀
NEW:
The DOJ tells Judge James Boasberg that Kristi Noem made the decision that flights that had departed should continue on to El Salvador, in contravention of the court’s orders.
The DOJ tells Judge James Boasberg that Kristi Noem made the decision that flights that had departed should continue on to El Salvador, in contravention of the court’s orders.
BREAKING:
“After receiving that legal advice, Secretary Noem directed that the AEA detainees who had been removed from the United States before the Court’s order could be transferred to the custody of El Salvador. “
“After receiving that legal advice, Secretary Noem directed that the AEA detainees who had been removed from the United States before the Court’s order could be transferred to the custody of El Salvador. “
November 26, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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If you're ever wondered why journalists seem so out of touch most of the time it's because in order to establish yourself you need to either come from money, marry into money, or be OK with abject poverty and daily financial panic
That third thing is unsustainable long-term
That third thing is unsustainable long-term
November 25, 2025 at 11:44 PM
If you're ever wondered why journalists seem so out of touch most of the time it's because in order to establish yourself you need to either come from money, marry into money, or be OK with abject poverty and daily financial panic
That third thing is unsustainable long-term
That third thing is unsustainable long-term
I wrote about KeyDrop, a really cool public-interest cybersecurity research initiative aimed at reducing API key abuse.
KeyDrop Scans The Web for Publicly Exposed API Keys - Innovation at Consumer Reports
At Consumer Reports, we’re inspired by public interest research projects like Keydrop that help make the internet safer for everyone.
innovation.consumerreports.org
November 25, 2025 at 7:20 PM
I wrote about KeyDrop, a really cool public-interest cybersecurity research initiative aimed at reducing API key abuse.
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Seriously, it’s everywhere and if you genuinely didn’t know, that’s okay. The only way to get better is by learning and this is a great place to start.
November 25, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Seriously, it’s everywhere and if you genuinely didn’t know, that’s okay. The only way to get better is by learning and this is a great place to start.
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DuckDuckGo now lets you filter out AI images in search results. Obviously not infallible or exhaustive but it’s a start.
How To Filter Out AI Images in DuckDuckgo Search Results - DuckDuckGo Help Pages
Learn how to use filters on DuckDuckGo Private Search to hide AI-generated images in results.
duckduckgo.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:42 PM
DuckDuckGo now lets you filter out AI images in search results. Obviously not infallible or exhaustive but it’s a start.
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Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
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It's Monday. So I thought I'd checka my email.
flashy: homestarrunner.com/sbemails/210...
tubey: youtu.be/-zhsNdk1_Vc?si
flashy: homestarrunner.com/sbemails/210...
tubey: youtu.be/-zhsNdk1_Vc?si
November 24, 2025 at 2:19 PM
It's Monday. So I thought I'd checka my email.
flashy: homestarrunner.com/sbemails/210...
tubey: youtu.be/-zhsNdk1_Vc?si
flashy: homestarrunner.com/sbemails/210...
tubey: youtu.be/-zhsNdk1_Vc?si
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Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
Avoiding public WiFi, QR codes, or public USB chargers doesn’t prevent you from being hacked. Happy to sign onto this open letter alongside 80+ cybersecurity veterans urging a shift from folklore to guidance that actually helps people avoid the most common attacks. www.hacklore.org
November 24, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Avoiding public WiFi, QR codes, or public USB chargers doesn’t prevent you from being hacked. Happy to sign onto this open letter alongside 80+ cybersecurity veterans urging a shift from folklore to guidance that actually helps people avoid the most common attacks. www.hacklore.org
So much fun talking holiday gifts alongside @gigastacey.bsky.social and @jefflandale.bsky.social for Carey Parker's podcast, @firewalldragons.bsky.social. And Bailey makes a guest appearance! podcast.firewallsdontstopdragons.com/2025/11/24/b...
Best & Worst Gifts for 2025! - Firewalls Don't Stop Dragons Podcast
Holiday shopping season is here! And that must mean that it’s time again for my annual Best & Worst Gift Guide! But this time...
podcast.firewallsdontstopdragons.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:26 PM
So much fun talking holiday gifts alongside @gigastacey.bsky.social and @jefflandale.bsky.social for Carey Parker's podcast, @firewalldragons.bsky.social. And Bailey makes a guest appearance! podcast.firewallsdontstopdragons.com/2025/11/24/b...
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This is a huge win that you might have missed last week: we successfully pressured airlines to shut down their data broker, which was selling passenger data to the government without a court order. I'm going to keep at it until other industries to follow suit.
After 404 Media's months-long reporting and pressure from lawmakers, the data broker owned by the U.S.’s major airlines will now shut down a program in which it sold access to hundreds of millions of flight records to the government and let agencies track peoples’ movements without a warrant.
November 24, 2025 at 3:32 PM
This is a huge win that you might have missed last week: we successfully pressured airlines to shut down their data broker, which was selling passenger data to the government without a court order. I'm going to keep at it until other industries to follow suit.
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🎁 Holiday shopping season is upon us! 🎁
Today's podcast is chock full of top notch buying advice from THREE @ConsumerReports gurus: @yaelwrites, @gigastacey and @JeffLandale. (It also includes a $10 off coupon for CR! !🔥)
Listen and share!
podcast.firewallsdontstopdragons.com/2025/11/24/b...
Today's podcast is chock full of top notch buying advice from THREE @ConsumerReports gurus: @yaelwrites, @gigastacey and @JeffLandale. (It also includes a $10 off coupon for CR! !🔥)
Listen and share!
podcast.firewallsdontstopdragons.com/2025/11/24/b...
Best & Worst Gifts for 2025! - Firewalls Don't Stop Dragons Podcast
Holiday shopping season is here! And that must mean that it’s time again for my annual Best & Worst Gift Guide! But this time...
podcast.firewallsdontstopdragons.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:01 PM
🎁 Holiday shopping season is upon us! 🎁
Today's podcast is chock full of top notch buying advice from THREE @ConsumerReports gurus: @yaelwrites, @gigastacey and @JeffLandale. (It also includes a $10 off coupon for CR! !🔥)
Listen and share!
podcast.firewallsdontstopdragons.com/2025/11/24/b...
Today's podcast is chock full of top notch buying advice from THREE @ConsumerReports gurus: @yaelwrites, @gigastacey and @JeffLandale. (It also includes a $10 off coupon for CR! !🔥)
Listen and share!
podcast.firewallsdontstopdragons.com/2025/11/24/b...
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Wanna know how bad the Arizona legislator's petition forgeries were? Here's the examples from the Austin Smith indictment.
s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24...
s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24...
November 24, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Wanna know how bad the Arizona legislator's petition forgeries were? Here's the examples from the Austin Smith indictment.
s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24...
s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24...
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“we need to be nicer to men” bro they didn’t let women have their own credit cards til 50 years ago
November 23, 2025 at 10:39 PM
“we need to be nicer to men” bro they didn’t let women have their own credit cards til 50 years ago
@dieworkwear.bsky.social I finally figured out my cat shelter donation-sponsored question, brought to you by my attempt to sew a snap fastener on a coat that my dog has claimed as a blanket.
November 23, 2025 at 10:14 PM
@dieworkwear.bsky.social I finally figured out my cat shelter donation-sponsored question, brought to you by my attempt to sew a snap fastener on a coat that my dog has claimed as a blanket.
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my obligatory plug of my piece with @kara-williams.bsky.social on the critical policy implications of this and the desperate need to be more specific
consumerfed.org/specific-ter...
consumerfed.org/specific-ter...
November 23, 2025 at 3:56 PM
my obligatory plug of my piece with @kara-williams.bsky.social on the critical policy implications of this and the desperate need to be more specific
consumerfed.org/specific-ter...
consumerfed.org/specific-ter...
I decided Passion Planners were getting too $$ and the marketing is annoying (AI driven, marked up prices with too many sales and texts, etc.), but I like the daily planners with two pages a day. I spent a few hours researching alternatives--turns out the ones that mete my criteria cost even more.
November 23, 2025 at 7:22 AM
I decided Passion Planners were getting too $$ and the marketing is annoying (AI driven, marked up prices with too many sales and texts, etc.), but I like the daily planners with two pages a day. I spent a few hours researching alternatives--turns out the ones that mete my criteria cost even more.
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EFF teamed up with AV Comparatives to see how well anti-virus apps detect stalkerware on Android phones.
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
November 6, 2025 at 8:22 PM
EFF teamed up with AV Comparatives to see how well anti-virus apps detect stalkerware on Android phones.
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
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Cybersecurity isn’t ready for the conversation about how bad sexism and ageism are in the whole pen test / red team community, or how influencer culture and the saturated market are enabling it to get worse. www.linkedin.com/pulse/tryhac...
TryHackMe's Advent of Cyber 2025: Zero Women Creators - A Critical Look at Representation in Cybersecurity Education
THE PROBLEM 18 creators. Zero women.
www.linkedin.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Cybersecurity isn’t ready for the conversation about how bad sexism and ageism are in the whole pen test / red team community, or how influencer culture and the saturated market are enabling it to get worse. www.linkedin.com/pulse/tryhac...
Great article on public involvement in AI, which can produce more robust, democratic, and actionable knowledge.
I worry about AI models being trained on previously generated AI outputs lacking quality control; this might be part of the solution.
I worry about AI models being trained on previously generated AI outputs lacking quality control; this might be part of the solution.
Can public involvement in AI evaluation improve the science? Or does it compromise quality, speed, cost?
In @pnas.org, Megan Price & I summarize challenges of AI evaluation, review strengths/weaknesses, & suggest how participatory methods can improve the science of AI
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
In @pnas.org, Megan Price & I summarize challenges of AI evaluation, review strengths/weaknesses, & suggest how participatory methods can improve the science of AI
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
How public involvement can improve the science of AI | PNAS
As AI systems from decision-making algorithms to generative AI are deployed more widely,
computer scientists and social scientists alike are being ...
www.pnas.org
November 23, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Great article on public involvement in AI, which can produce more robust, democratic, and actionable knowledge.
I worry about AI models being trained on previously generated AI outputs lacking quality control; this might be part of the solution.
I worry about AI models being trained on previously generated AI outputs lacking quality control; this might be part of the solution.