Surveillance Report: Weekly News For Digital Freedom

OpenAI's Hacking Story Got Worse, Plus Iran In US Water Systems & A Felony For Wiping A Phone

August 1, 2026·32 min
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OpenAI's rogue AI agent turned out to have hacked more than Hugging Face, and the more details come out, the less impressive it seems. Then Anthropic came forward with its own disclosure: three companies accessed during testing, two of which had no idea. Plus Iran-linked hackers burrowing into dozens of US water and energy systems, an activist facing a felony for wiping his GrapheneOS phone at the border with a duress password, and thousands of private Claude chats and Artifacts turning up indexed on Google. An AI-heavy week, with the usual data breaches, threats, and FOSS+ updates.🗺️ The open-source answer to Google Timeline is finally here! Replay every route and light up every city you've visited on a map nobody else owns; self-host Dawarich free or grab the hosted version at https://dawarich.app/techlore/ with code TECHLORE for 20% off your first year.In this episode:Highlight: OpenAI's escaped agent, the Hugging Face breach, and Anthropic's own disclosureIran-linked hackers disrupting US water and energy providers, 30+ Minnesota communities hitAn activist charged with a felony after a GrapheneOS duress password wiped his phone at the border, plus what US v. Belmonte-Cardozo means for warrantless border searchesThousands of private Claude chats and Artifacts indexed by GoogleData Breaches: CareCloud's ~350,000-person silence, Brinks Home, Origin (4.8M), OnTrac, Chick-fil-A, Analog Devices, KT's $39M fineThreats: Breyer on Chat Control 1.0's return, Google's age verification API on the Play Store, JetBrains TeamCity RCE, Mythos killing the Hawk PQC candidate, Mysk's silent macOS executable replacementFOSS+: Proton Pass autofill (now working on iCloud.com), Tails, Thunderbird 153 "Meadow," Firefox's Nova UI, Collabora Online, Wine 11.14🧡 SUPPORT TECHLOREBecome a Techlorian and keep this show growing: ★ Support this podcast ★ 🔗 SOURCES & LINKSView all sources here: https://techlore.tech/openais-hacking-story-got-worse-plus-iran-in-us-water-systems-a-felony-for-wiping-a-phone/⏱️ TIMESTAMPS🎥 VIDEOWatch on YouTube 📰 ABOUT SURVEILLANCE REPORTYour essential weekly tech news podcast covering the latest threats to security, privacy, and digital freedom. Hosted by Henry Fisher from Techlore.

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