No Hack Needed: How Revolut Leaked Your Passport, Plus New Age Verification & Rogue AI Agents
SEP 17, 202636 MIN
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Description
A hacker emailed Revolut pretending to be a government agency, and Revolut handed over customers' passports, IDs, and financial details. Plus: the global age-verification wave forcing even more ID collection (EU, California, Microsoft), OpenAI's rogue AI agents and why I've hit a breaking point with these companies, and the usual run of data breaches, threats, and open-source updates. Correction: it's really DMARC that stops the spoofing, misspoke! Set up SPF, DKIM, and DMARC together.
In this episode:
Highlight, The hidden cost of handing over your ID: the Revolut impersonation breach, IDScan's confirmed 150M+ license leak, and the Florida DMV/ShinyHunters breach
The global age-verification wave: the EU's under-15 proposal, EDRi's critique of the eID wallet, California's new laws (the good and the bad), and Microsoft's new Windows age APIs
OpenAI's rogue agents: the German-wiki hijack, 10+ more undisclosed sites, and why Henry's patience with AI companies has run out
Defense Bulletin: breaches (AdaptHealth, Berlin, Trezor, Surfshark, Mathspace, Veradigm), threats (Pixel modem zero-day, Chrome, Nightmare Eclipse's exploit spree, a new Android VPN leak, LG TVs), and FOSS+ (Tor, Tails, CalyxOS, GrapheneOS RCS, Control D on Tailscale, Homebrew 7.0, and more)
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🔗 SOURCES & LINKS
View all sources here: https://techlore.tech/no-hack-needed-how-revolut-leaked-your-passport-plus-new-age-verification-rogue-ai-agents/
⏱️ TIMESTAMPS
(00:00) - WELCOME TO SURVEILLANCE REPORT
(01:04) - REVOLUT + OTHER ID LEAKS
(07:36) - AGE BANS & AGE VERIFICATION
(12:24) - OUR SPONSOR: EASYOPUTOUTS!
(13:30) - CREEPY AI COMPANIES & CEOS
(17:48) - DEFENSE BULLETIN: DATA BREACHES
(20:50) - DEFENSE BULLETIN: THREATS
(26:22) - DEFENSE BULLETIN: FOSS+
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📰 ABOUT SURVEILLANCE REPORT
Your 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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