In this session, two tech writers who roasted the worst tech reporting of 2019 and 2020 are back on the grill to discuss...the worst tech reporting of 2021! This year we’ve broken down the top media fails into four cardinal sins: not reading or understanding a company’s privacy policy/terms of use, taking press releases at face value, being unclear about relevant details, and relying on sources without domain expertise. But this bleeds into the tech sector as well: before journalists misrepresent a company privacy policy, the company itself often misleads its own users (by error or by design). And who is responsible for writing those press releases that sometimes get parroted in the first place? We’ll see what we can learn from the year’s biggest fails, and how journalists and hackers can work together to make security reporting suck a little bit less in 2022.