A Leak of San Francisco Police Drone Footage Exposes the New Reality of Urban Surveillance
2026-07-14T08:52:14Z•49260cdbd3aefe766f3be932b2506cf09d7b532e12fe972a100536440cf9f3bd
AI-vulnerabilityEU-Chat-ControlPegasusSkydiocredential-theftcryptographic-keys-expirydata-leakdroneinfrastructure-securitylicense-plate-readerlinux-root-bugmisconfigurationnation-state-threatspredictive-policingprivacysecure-bootspywaresurveillanceticketing-fraudvulnerability-management
What happened
A collection of WIRED security stories covering multiple high-risk incidents and trends: a large leak of San Francisco police drone footage (Skydio) exposing pervasive urban surveillance; an AI discovery of a 15-year-old Linux root bug; EU “Chat Control” laws enabling large-scale message scanning; spyware (Pegasus) resurfacing in investigations; misconfigured sites and data exposures (Dialog, Dialog group leak); abuse of ML models to find ticketing vulnerabilities (Claude) and other automated attack risks; credential and data-theft incidents (LastPass, info-stealers); errors in license-plate–d
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- 2026-07-14T08:52:14Z
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