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Stanford Center for Internet and Society2020613 points234 commentscited by 8Society, Policy & Culture details
The story so far: In the ‘90s the Internet was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. (with apologies to Douglas Adams)[1] There’s a new bill afoot in Congress called the EARN IT Act. A “discussion draft”
Today, Wikipedia was hit with a malicious attack that has taken it offline in several countries for intermittent periods. The attack is ongoing and our Site Reliability Engineering team is working hard to stop it and restore access to the site. As one of the world’s most popular sites, Wikipedia sometimes attracts…
Online security is extremely important for people in Ukraine and the surrounding region right now. Government agencies, independent newspapers and public service provide…
Microsoft has bundled a VPN with its Edge browser, and we expect others to follow suit. But can a built-in VPN replace a full-fledged VPN service, and is it a good example to follow? We give our take.
Initial Disclosure: After extensive research, we have taken a short position in Adani Group Companies through U.S.-traded bonds and non-Indian-traded derivative instruments. This report relates solely to the valuation of securities traded outside of India. This report does not constitute a recommendation on…
Discover how hCaptcha has become the largest independent CAPTCHA service and now runs on 15% of the internet.
Update, April 9, 2021 : We've launched Am I FLoCed, a new site that will tell you whether your Chrome browser has been turned into a guinea pig for Federated Learning of Cohorts or FLoC, Google’s latest targeted advertising experiment. The third-party cookie is dying, and Google is trying to create...
Authors: PromptArmor
When a government contractor pays a company for "Takedown Services" to prevent transparency in government
Railway detected anomalous activity involving systems that store customer environment variables and recommends your immediate attention
Right now, people around the world are marching and protesting against racism and police brutality, outraged by the most recent police murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. At Signal, we support the people who have gone into the streets to make their voices heard. We believe that something ...
NHS England is rolling out software to run our health records from Palantir - fight back
by Steven Englehardt [0], Gunes Acar, and Arvind Narayanan So far in the No boundaries series, we’ve uncovered how web trackers exfiltrate identifying information from web pages, browser password managers, and form inputs. Today we report yet another type of surreptitious data collection by third-party scripts that we…
Lapsus$ posted Mercor on its leak site. Voice biometrics plus ID documents in one bundle is a deepfake-ready kit. Here is what to do.
Xfinity injected 581 lines of JavaScript into unencrypted traffic as a data-cap warning, creating MITM risks, accessibility failures, and slower loads.
There's been a lot of concern recently about the Web Environment Integrity proposal, developed by a selection of authors from Google, and apparently being...
On Wednesday we shared that we’re introducing a new terms of use (TOU) and privacy notice for Firefox. Since then, we’ve been listening to some of our
LiteLLM 1.107.0 on PyPI ships a .pth credential stealer and a sitecustomize.py backdoor that run on every Python start. How the implant got in, what it steals, and indicators of compromise.
Ring isn't just a product that allows users to surveil their neighbors. The company also uses it to surveil its customers.An investigation by EFF of the Ring doorbell app for Android found it to be packed with third-party trackers sending out a plethora of customers’ personally identifiable...
BundesMessenger is a modified version of Element which we’re working with BWI to develop and maintain.
A recent decision at the US patent office may well give patent trolls cause to steer clear of open source projects – even more than the fierce resistance the community impressively funded and mount…
For many years, the Signal app on Android has supported sending and receiving plaintext SMS and MMS messages in addition to Signal messages. SMS and MMS are standardized communication protocols that allow mobile devices to send and transmit messages, and most people picking up their phone to text...
Posted by Jonathan Skelker, Product Manager It’s Halloween 🎃 and the last day of Cybersecurity Awareness Month 🔐, so we’re celebrating t...
The Utah Supreme Court is the latest stop in EFF’s roving campaign to establish your Fifth Amendment right to refuse to provide your password to law enforcement. Yesterday, along with the ACLU, we filed an amicus brief in State v. Valdez, arguing that the constitutional privilege against self-...
So-called age verification for social media is spreading across the world, framed as an effort to create a safer internet for children. In reality, age verification lays the foundation for a fully government controlled internet.
