153 Million Driver's Licenses For Sale, Plus Chrome Kills uBlock Origin & Texas Kicks Out Flock
An ID-verification company, IDScan.net, appears to have leaked scans of 153 million driver's licenses, then sold on a dark-web market called Nexus. This week I break down why this breach is the perfec...
5 Sep 29min
Apple Fixed A Leak Without Telling Anyone, Plus More VPN News and Flock's Creepy Police AI
Four positive VPN stories in one week: Mullvad's new multihop modes, Obscura shipping on Windows, Apple quietly patching the iCloud Private Relay leak, and Firefox's free VPN rolling out to Android. T...
29 Aug 35min
Apple's Private Relay Is Leaking Your IP, Plus Fake VPN Extensions & France's Big Win
Three cracks opened up in Apple's privacy story this week: iCloud Private Relay leaking real IP addresses through DNS prefetching, WebTransport, and passkeys; Hide My Email exposing real addresses in ...
21 Aug 40min
Signal's Biggest Update In Years, Plus Rival App Stores Arrive In The Play Store
Signal just shipped its largest set of updates in years: A second phone can finally be a linked device, automatic key verification is rolling out alongside safety numbers, and there are commits hintin...
13 Aug 40min
OpenAI's Hacking Story Got Worse, Plus Iran In US Water Systems & A Felony For Wiping A Phone
OpenAI's rogue AI agent turned out to have hacked more than Hugging Face, and the more details come out, the less impressive it seems. Then Anthropic came forward with its own disclosure: three compan...
1 Aug 32min
France Banned Social Media For Under-15s, Plus A Hidden Device In Millions Of US Cars
France has become the first country in Europe to ban social media for children under 15. Meanwhile there's real good news elsewhere: the UK's incoming PM dropped digital ID entirely, and California's ...
24 Jul 41min
EU Passes Chat Control Anyway, Plus Microsoft's Secure Boot Mess & the Flock Resistance
This week's a double-week catch-up: the EU just greenlit Chat Control even after Parliament voted against it, Microsoft had a brutal stretch between a decade-old Secure Boot flaw and a Windows Defende...
16 Jul 37min
Apple Quietly Downgrades Hide My Email, Plus Chrome Kills uBlock Origin & Google's IP Tracking
Apple is moving Hide My Email aliases to a new private.icloud.com subdomain, which makes it trivial for any app or website to spot a private email and block the signup. 🔎 EasyOptOuts is the easy, aff...
24 Jun 27min
