Soatok in the Media

Did you know that I’ve been mentioned or featured in the media several times since I started this blog?

Credit: LvJ

This page lists any significant media coverage in approximately reverse chronological order. (Events close together in time might be mixed up slightly.)

2022

Last Week Tonight – Rocks (Web Exclusive)

About 8 minutes in, a tweet with my butt emote is visible.

This is the image (one of my Twitch emotes):

soatokButt Twitch emote
Art: Swizz

The tweet that appeared on John Oliver’s show:

Pink News: Generous furries help save at-risk libraries cut off by mayor over gay books

Article link: Here (Archived)

You can learn more about this story and its background here: https://soatok.blog/2022/02/09/that-one-time-furries-saved-a-library/

Clarion-Ledger: Furries raise money for libraries after mayor threatens to withhold funds due to LGBTQ+ books

Article link: Here (Archived)

You can learn more about this story and its background here: https://soatok.blog/2022/02/09/that-one-time-furries-saved-a-library/

VICE: Furries Are Leading the War Against a Book-Banning Mississippi Mayor

Article link: Here (Archived)

You can learn more about this story and its background here: https://soatok.blog/2022/02/09/that-one-time-furries-saved-a-library/

2021

Lincoln Journal Star – ‘A buggy mess’: UNL student helps identify potential security risk in Safer Community app

Article link: Here (Archived)

References my public disclosure of security weaknesses with Safer Illinois and interviews the UNL student that prompted me to look at their code.

CBC: Montreal servers hosted TheDonald, a far-right site blamed for stirring up violence at Capital riot

Article link: Here (Archived)

Focuses on my disclosure of the real (non-CloudFlare) IP address of TheDonald.win, one of the major platforms used by the fascist, anti-democratic January 6 rioters.

2020

The Register:

Article link: Here (Archived)

The Register’s security roundup linked to my first counter-misinformation piece about the Team Fortress 2 source code leaks.