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The world’s most-surveilled cities
We've gathered data on CCTV cameras in use in 120 major cities across the globe to determine which cities have the most surveillance cameras per person.
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New [July 2, 2021] Audacity Data Collection Policy
Audacity is the world's most popular audio editing and recording app. Edit, mix, and enhance your audio tracks with the power of Audacity. Download now!
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“Pay or Okay” on tech news site heise.de illegal, decides German DPA
The Data Protection Authority of Lower Saxony (LfD) decided that the “Pay or Okay” solution used by heise.de was unlawful
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Web Request and Declarative Net Request: Explaining the impact on Extensions
The Story So Far As part of an effort to increase user security and privacy, Chrome is planning a number of changes to the extensions pla...
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"On communicating better" --- 37signals revises security pages.
Last week we were dragged over the coals — and rightfully so — for failing to communicate clearly regarding a security exploit that was discovered in early August. It turned out that the issue was related to Ruby on Rails. The exploit affected multiple products (ours and others). Aft…
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CVE-2026-98432: 9.8 CVE affecting all Ubuntu versions
Ubuntu is an open source software operating system that runs from the desktop, to the cloud, to all your internet connected things.
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Mullvad VPN | Privacy is a universal right
Free the internet from mass surveillance and censorship. Fight for privacy with Mullvad VPN and Mullvad Browser.
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Government Communication
When legally forced to provide information to government or law enforcement agencies, we'll disclose the transcripts of that communication here.
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About Emergency Access
The emergency access feature of the Bitwarden password manager enables you to designate trusted emergency contacts to access your vault in an emergency.
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Threat Group 4127 Targets Hillary Clinton Presidential Campaign
Learn how Sophos CTU researchers tracked the activities of a Russian-based threat group targeting the Hillary Clinton Presidential Campaign.
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Facebook and Genocide: How Facebook contributed to genocide in Myanmar and why it will not be held accountable - Harvard Law School
On July 22, 2013, Turkish scholar and social media expert Zeynep Tufekci tweeted “Last year, I pondered the first ‘social-media fueled ethnic cleansing.’ With ethnic tensions & expanding online hate speech, is it Burma?” 1
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CrowdStrike’s work with the Democratic National Committee: Setting the record straight
Get the key facts about CrowdStrike's work with the Democratic Natiional Committee in 2016 and debunk the false claims that have been made about our work.
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Changes to Trusted Certificate Authorities in Android Nougat
News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.
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SSL added and removed here ;-)
This post is part of our ongoing series about networks, privacy, governments and (of course) online security tools like Cloak. Last week, the Washington Post unleashed yet another bombshell revelation from the Snowden documents.
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PHP2Shell by Calif Research
A tale of two PHP remote vulnerabilities
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Errata: Steve Gibson
a summary of Steven Gibson events and quotes demonstrating charlatan status
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A new layer of security for certified Android devices
Starting in 2026 and in select countries first, Android apps must be registered to a verified developer in order to be installed.
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Cloudflare supports Privacy Pass
Cloudflare supports Privacy Pass, a recently-announced privacy-preserving protocol developed in collaboration with researchers from Royal Holloway and the University of Waterloo.
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LavaRand in Production: The Nitty-Gritty Technical Details
As some of you may know, there's a wall of lava lamps in the lobby of our San Francisco office that we use for cryptography. In this post, we’re going to explore how that works in technical detail.
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The Linux Kernel, CDDL and Related Issues
The Software Freedom Law Center provides legal representation and other law related services to protect and advance Free and Open Source Software.
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Freeze the Controller, Defrost the Food: Uncovering Vulnerabilities in Danfoss Refrigeration Controllers
Team82 researched the attack surface of the Danfoss AK-SM 800A refrigeration controller platform and identified multiple vulnerabilities affecting the embedded web management interface. Team82 disclosed the vulnerabilities to Danfoss, which addressed them in a new firmware version. Successful exploits of the…