Joseph Cox

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Hacking/crime/privacy journalist. Author of DARK WIRE. Co-founder of @404mediaco. Signal: joseph.404 Email: joseph@404media.co

404media.co Joined March 2011

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Joseph Cox @josephfcox Nov 19, 2024

The Financial Times calls DARK WIRE, my book on how the FBI secretly ran its own tech company to wiretap the world, one of the best books of 2024: ft.com/content/67a336…

You can buy your copy, audiobook, etc, here: hachettebookgroup.com/titles/joseph-…

Joseph Cox @josephfcox 3d

UK sex workers woke up to multiple platforms deleting or restricting their content because of the UK's new porn law, despite many of the videos actually not being illegal or having anything to do with the law 404media.co/clips4sale-con…

www.404media.co UK Sex Workers Wake Up to Sites Purging Their Content Follow UK Porn Ban Adult creators are left in the dark as content that they didn't believe broke the law disappears from clip sites.

Joseph Cox @josephfcox 4d

new crimes just dropped 404media.co/uk-crime-and-p…

www.404media.co In the UK, Face Sitting Porn Might Land You in Jail The Crime and Policing Act, which goes into force on November 6, criminalizes possessing or publishing strangulation or suffocation porn, as well as some types of "close familial relatives" roleplay.

Joseph Cox @josephfcox 4d

This is a fantastic piece about how X — and really the online right, Silicon Valley, tech companies etc — were echo chambers and were completely out of touch with what ordinary people wanted 404media.co/republicans-le…

www.404media.co Republicans Learn X Is the Echo Chamber It turns out you can’t post Malfoids and Anakin when diesel is $6 a gallon and expect America to vote for you.

Joseph Cox @josephfcox 4d

For months, I've been talking to an AI fraud kingpin. Yuriy Nazarenko made OnlyFake, a site that let anyone churn out realistic photos of fake IDs with AI. The FBI later got Nazarenko, but now he's out, so he told me his story. Including, how the North Koreans came knocking.

Read his story here: 404media.co/the-confession…

www.404media.co The Confessions of an AI Fraud Kingpin Yuriy Nazarenko created ‘OnlyFake’, a site that let anyone churn out realistic fake IDs with AI. Then the North Koreans came knocking.