Presented at
CactusCon 12 (2024),
Feb. 17, 2024, 1:30 p.m.
(30 minutes).
For the fifth year, the two tech reporters who have been roasting the word tech reporting are back. We also work in cybersecurity and are avid sci-fi fans, which makes us especially qualified for this year’s roast. In this session, we’ll focus on common tropes in privacy and surveillance technology that journalists get wrong again and again. On the grill are overblown threats on the use of WhatsApp, Uber, and even airport chargers… not to mention AI killing machines. Oh, and white nationalists using Flipper Zero to attack the power grid. Media solutions to all that ails us include so-called “secure” smartphones and repealing Section 230. And…are imposters really trying to steal money and passwords on Google? Find out what folks who read these stories are worried about, and what they should really be worried about.
Presenters:
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huertanix
- Digital Security Trainer at Freedom of the Press Foundation
David Huerta is a Digital Security Trainer at the Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF), where he trains journalists in privacy-enhancing technology to empower a free press. He’s taught hundreds of trainings across the world and organizes the an annual series of workshops on digital security at the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ) conference. He's written for Motherboard, The Outline and FPF’s own security blog. He also dropped out of ASU in 2010 to co-found HeatSync Labs, Arizona’s first hackerspace.
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Yael Grauer
- product manager & investigative tech reporter
Yael Grauer is an investigative tech reporter covering online privacy and security, digital freedom and mass surveillance. For her day job, she works at Consumer Reports' Innovation Lab managing Security Planner, a free, easy-to-use guide to staying safer online. She's currently writing a book on investigations for No Starch Press, and has written articles for a ton of different tech publications. Yael has also co-organized events and spoken publicly about digital security, memory safety, source protection, ethics, VPNs, the audio capabilities of doorbell cameras, and more. She holds a Master of Mass Communication degree from ASU, which was an interesting way to kill time between DEF CONs.
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