Ring Is Back and Scarier Than Ever

The 404 Media Podcast

We start this week with exciting news: we bought a Super Bowl ad! For… $2,550. We explain how. After the break, Jason tells us about Ring’s recently launched Search Party feature, and gives us a very timely reminder of what Ring really is and how we got here. In the subscribers-only section, Joseph breaks down Lockdown Mode and how it kept the FBI out of a Washington Post reporter’s phone.


Timestamps:


0:00 - Intro

2:49 - Watch 404 Media’s Super Bowl Ad

27:29 - With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet:


SUBSCRIBER'S STORY - FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled
YouTube version: https://youtu.be/0JK-VSrtlWw



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We start this week with exciting news: we bought a Super Bowl ad! For… $2,550. We explain how. After the break, Jason tells us about Ring’s recently launched Search Party feature, and gives us a very timely reminder of what Ring really is and how we got here. In the subscribers-only section, Joseph breaks down Lockdown Mode and how it kept the FBI out of a Washington Post reporter’s phone.


Timestamps:


0:00 - Intro

2:49 - Watch 404 Media’s Super Bowl Ad

27:29 - With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet:


SUBSCRIBER'S STORY - FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled
YouTube version: https://youtu.be/0JK-VSrtlWw



Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2026-02-11 50 min
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