Did you know that I’ve been mentioned or featured in the media several times since I started this blog?
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)
This is the image (one of my Twitch emotes):
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
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
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
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
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
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:
The Register’s security roundup linked to my first counter-misinformation piece about the Team Fortress 2 source code leaks.