Back to episode — Episode 2953 CWSA 09/09/25
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WhatsApp, the app that's owned by Meta, had some privacy problems. And specifically what he said was there were about 1,500, listen to this, he claims that there were 1,500 WhatsApp engineers that had full access to private user data with no logs, no audits, and no way to know if anything was taken. Now, user data would include their messages, right? So there were 1,500 people who all they had to…
← Previous segment →caught on fire. It's a suspected arson attack. Well, I would think so if there are two of them, unless they were right next to each other. You would think it would be a pretty big coincidence if two of them caught on fire. I would even say it's weird if one of them catches on fire because how much burnable material is in a high voltage tower? I don't know. It's not like it's made of wood. So yeah, I believe they all need a Tesla Powerwall to get past that kind of risk.
You know that Greta Thunberg is now an activist about the Palestinian cause and she's on her second, if you can call it that. She's on a flotilla. They're going over there to protest Israel's treatment of the Gazans or something like that. But apparently she got to Tunisia in Tunisian waters. She may have, and this is disputed so we don't know if this is true, but allegedly a drone attacked her boat. Now I think it caused something on fire, they say, but it didn't kill anybody. Nobody was injured, so that's good. But there is some dispute. The Tunisian authorities say there was no drone hitting your boat. Somebody dropped a cigarette on some life preservers.
So they were either one of two things. They were either attacked by another country in a bold raid in which they sent a drone from a long distance or they had somebody stationed there waiting for Greta and then they tried to assassinate her without leaving a trace by using their sophisticated drones. So that's one possibility. The other possibility is that Greta was taking a smoke break and she was just out by the life preservers. You know, I'm having a real good time protesting this Gaza situation. Flick. And then she flicks her lit cigarette into the life preservers and the next thing you know, we better tell people that was a drone.
So we don't know what happened. My point is the fog of war makes it impossible to know how much of that story is true, if any of it.
You know the story about Anthropic, the AI company that got sued by a bunch of authors and the authors banded together as a class and sued and they won. And so the authors were going to split up $1.5 billion. That was the
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judgment. And who knows how much their lawyers are going to get but what would be typical in a class action? Does the law firm get a third? What is typical? So if it had been, let's say, $1.5 billion and the lawyers get a third, you know, they'd be looking at half a billion dollars for some lawyering. But apparently it had to be overseen by a judge. And the federal judge that was going to oversee…
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