Surveillance Report: Weekly News For Digital Freedom10 Apr

VPNs Could Make You an NSA Target, North Korea's Supply Chain Hijack & the EU Kills Chat Control

The government told you to use a VPN, but are you actually making yourself a target for NSA surveillance in the process? This week's highlight story digs into a letter from six US lawmakers pressing intelligence officials to answer whether Americans using commercial VPNs risk losing their legal protections and being treated as foreign nationals under Section 702 of FISA.

Also this week: North Korea's methodical, weeks-long social engineering attack that briefly hijacked the Axios open-source JavaScript library; Android malware called NoVoice that infected 2.3 million devices through the Google Play Store that survives a factory reset; Apple's device-level age verification expanding to the UK, Singapore, and South Korea; and the EU Parliament's dramatic vote to kill Chat Control, plus Patrick Brayer's five-point action plan for genuine child protection that doesn't require mass surveillance. The Defense Bulletin is packed: VeraCrypt's developer locked out by Microsoft, a rare Apple iOS 18 backport patch, Meta losing a child exploitation lawsuit, Apple Maps ads incoming, and more.

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View all sources here: https://techlore.tech/vpns-could-expose-you-to-nsa-spying-north-koreas-open-source-hijack-android-malware-hits-2-3-million-devices-via-google-play-and-the-eu-ending-chat-control/

⏱️ TIMESTAMPS

(00:00) - WELCOME TO SURVEILLANCE REPORT
(01:18) - HIGHLIGHT STORY: NSA VPN SPYING
(08:24) - NORTH KOREA HACKS OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE
(10:30) - GOOGLE HOSTING MALWARE ON PLAY STORE
(15:00) - AGE VERIFICATION ADVANCES EVERYWHERE
(26:12) - END OF CHAT CONTROL & WHAT'S NEXT!
(31:00) - DEFENSE BULLETIN

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Your essential weekly tech news podcast covering the latest threats to security, privacy, and digital freedom. Hosted by Henry Fisher from Techlore.

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