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The most popular blog posts about security & privacy on Hacker News. 316 posts.
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Open Letter from Governments to Facebook Is an All-Out Attack on Encryption
Top law enforcement officials in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia told Facebook today that they want backdoor access to all encrypted messages sent on all its platforms. In an open letter, these governments called on Mark Zuckerberg to stop Facebook’s plan to introduce end-to-end...
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EU Agencies Falsely Report More Than 550 Archive.org URLs as Terrorist Content
CORRECTION: This post previously identified the sender of the 550 falsely identified URLs as Europol's EU Internet Referral Unit (EU IRU). The sender was in fact, the French national Internet Referral Unit, using Europol's application, which sends the email from an @europol.europa.eu address. The EU IRU has informed…
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EFF Wins Access to License Plate Reader Data to Study Law Enforcement Use
San Francisco—Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Southern California (ACLU SoCal) have reached an agreement with Los Angeles law enforcement agencies under which the police and sheriff’s departments will turn over license plate data they...
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Open Letter from the OpenID Foundation to Apple Regarding Sign in with Apple
June 27, 2019Mr. Craig Federighi Apple Senior Vice President of Software Engineering One Apple Park Way Cupertino, CA 95014RE: Open Letter from the OpenID Foundation to Apple Regarding Sign In with AppleDear Mr. Federighi,The OpenID Foundation applauds Apple’s efforts to allow users to login to third-party mobile and…
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800M Email Addresses Leaked Online by Email Verification Service
Our Biggest Data Breach Discovery of 2019 a massive 800 million emails leaked online. This data breach uncovered how an email verification service uses spam
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My application ran away and called home from Redmond
I recently found a surprising leak vector in Windows 10 installations. We were porting our Beacon to Windows and for easy deployment…
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Hey advertisers, track this
If it feels like the ads chasing you across the internet know you a little too well, it’s because they do (unless you’re an avid user of ad blockers, i
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When it comes to privacy, default settings matter
What if I told you that on nearly every single website you visit, data about you was transmitted to dozens or even hundreds of companies, all so that the w
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A Message about iOS Security
iOS security is unmatched because we take end-to-end responsibility for the security of our hardware and software.
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China is blocking all language editions of Wikipedia
translation: 中国封锁了所有语言版本的维基百科 China recently started blocking all language editions of Wikipedia. Previously, the blocking was limited to the Chinese language edition of Wikipedia (zh.wikipedia.org), but has now expanded to include all *.wikipedia.org language editions. In this post, we share OONI network measurement…
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Down the Rabbit-Hole
Posted by Tavis Ormandy, Security Research Over-Engineer.“Sometimes, hacking is just someon...
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The Fully Remote Attack Surface of the iPhone
Posted by Natalie Silvanovich, Project ZeroWhile there have been several rumours and reports of f...
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Machine Learning on Encrypted Data Without Decrypting It
Explore cutting-edge cryptographic techniques for machine learning on encrypted data. Discover how to process sensitive information without decryption, ensuring privacy and security.
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SSH Handshake Explained
Secure Shell (SSH) is a widely used Transport Layer Protocol to secure connections between clients and servers. In this post we explain how SSH handshake works.
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Turn off DoH, Firefox
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Steam Windows Client Local Privilege Escalation 0day
Английская версия <a href="https://habr.com/ru/company/pm/blog/462479/">статьи</a>, опубликованной в корпоративном блоге на Хабрахабре.
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Mastodon and Keybase
You're reading the Keybase blog. There are more posts . When you're done, you can install Keybase .
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WebKit Tracking Prevention Policy
Today we are publishing the WebKit Tracking Prevention Policy, covering: What types of tracking WebKit will prevent.
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Removing Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior from China
We removed seven Pages, three Groups and five Facebook accounts as part of a small network that originated in China and focused on Hong Kong.
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Mozilla takes action to protect users in Kazakhstan
Today, Mozilla and Google took action to protect the online security and privacy of individuals in Kazakhstan. Together the companies deployed technical so
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