Internet Sleuths Reveal Hack to Undo Epstein File Redactions

https://www.thedailybeast.com//internet-sleuths-reveal-hack-to-undo-epstein-file-redactions/?via=ios

Canadians are the BEST neighbors! Here they've gone ahead and leaked the #CBS #60Minutes CECOT segment that Bari Weiss pulled for Trump. Enjoy!!!
#uspol #uspolitics #TangerineTyrant #FreeSpeech #journalism

https://archive.org/details/60-minutes-inside-cecot

This Gmail hack is unsettling not because it’s flashy, but because it’s bureaucratic. Attackers aren’t breaking encryption or outsmarting algorithms. They’re filling out forms. By changing an account’s age and abusing Google’s Family Link feature, they can quietly reclassify an adult user as a “child” and assume parental control. At that point, the rightful owner isn’t hacked so much as administratively erased.

The clever part is that everything happens inside legitimate features. Passwords are changed. Two-factor settings are altered. Recovery options are overwritten. And when the user tries to get back in, Google’s automated systems see a supervised child account and do exactly what they were designed to do: say no.

Google says it’s looking into the issue, which suggests this wasn’t how the system was supposed to work. But it’s a reminder of an old lesson. Security failures often happen when protective mechanisms are combined in ways no one quite imagined. The tools aren’t broken. The assumptions are.

There’s no dramatic fix here, only mildly annoying advice that suddenly feels urgent. Review recovery settings. Lock down account changes. Use passkeys. Because once an attacker controls the recovery layer, proving you’re you can become surprisingly difficult.

TL;DR
🧠 Family safety tools are being weaponized
⚡ Account recovery can be shut down entirely
🎓 Legitimate features enable the lockout
🔍 Prevention matters more than appeals

https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2025/12/07/google-looking-into-gmail-hack-locking-users-out-with-no-recovery

#Cybersecurity #Gmail #IdentitySecurity #AccountRecovery #DigitalRisk #security #privacy #cloud #infosec

This took way too long to find. Blocking the "Sign in with google" on sites via #uBlock custom filter. Add accounts.google.com/gsi/* to the filter and adios stupid Sign in with google popups.

Edit: I tested this with logging into gmail (yeah i know, irony), and it still works fine.

Update: Thanks to @bill , this might be the more 'proper one'.

accounts.google.com/gsi/*$xhr,script,3p

#google #ublockorigin

I don't think I'll stop using Firefox anytime soon.
Yes, their management are fucking idiots and it's annoying that I'll have to disable new AI features whenever they release them..

But the alternative is to use something Chromium-based, which would make Google's domination of web technology absolute - and Google is 100x more evil than Mozilla ever could be.

I hope this fucking bubble pops before Mozilla fucks up Firefox so badly that it becomes completely unusable

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