Tracker-free posts on privacy, protocols, and digital sovereignty.
Chinese state-linked groups like Earth Lamia and Jackpot Panda exploited CVE-2025-55182 in React Server Components within hours of its December 3 2025 disclosure. This unauthenticated RCE flaw gives attackers full server access without logins
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Petco exposed customer data after a misconfigured app left files accessible online. The real failure is the industry wide habit of collecting information it cannot defend.
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Axon is using Edmonton Police to trial face recognition on body cameras. The test builds a biometric pipeline that expands police visibility far beyond live encounters.
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India issued a secret order on 28 November 2025 forcing every phone maker to bake the Sanchar Saathi government app into devices and block users from disabling it. Three days of fury later the mandate is dead.
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A SonicWall weakness let ransomware actors infiltrate Marquis Software Solutions and extract sensitive data from 74 US banks and credit unions. This attack shows what happens when a single vendor becomes a quiet central point of failure.
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Twin brothers Muneeb and Sohaib Akhter spent years hacking private companies and U S government systems. Their schemes show how insider access and basic intrusions cause real damage before nation state actors ever get involved.
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The USPTO wants to cripple inter partes review and make bad patents untouchable. EFF is pushing back because the public needs the power to challenge broken law.
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Flock claims it runs a smart automated safety system but the real work is being done by offshore gig workers reviewing raw footage of Americans.
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Albiriox is a new Android MaaS threat built for on device fraud, VNC control and credential theft. It targets more than 400 financial apps and bypasses FLAG_SECURE protections.
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After media accusations and law enforcement pressure, GrapheneOS is exiting France entirely and moving infrastructure to Canada.
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Over $262 million has been lost in 2025 alone to account takeover scams, with attackers mimicking bank staff and spoofing websites to steal credentials.
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CISA just added an old OpenPLC ScadaBR XSS bug to the KEV list after a pro Russian crew used it in the wild. If your HMI is on the internet with default creds, you are the low hanging fruit.
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US states are pushing bills that punish VPN use and force websites to expose users. It looks a lot more like authoritarian censorship than child protection.
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Edward Snowden exposed a surveillance system that watched everyone while pretending it did not exist. His leaks forced the world to face the truth.
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GrapheneOS strips out Google’s surveillance layer and replaces it with real security. It takes discipline to use, but the payoff is a phone that finally works for you instead of advertisers.
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Monero hides the sender, receiver and amount on every transaction. In a world built on surveillance finance, this is what real digital cash looks like.
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Smart speakers are marketed as helpers but operate as networked microphones feeding Amazon and Google. Every misfire and bug proves how fragile your privacy becomes once you let them in.
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Smart lightbulbs look harmless but most are insecure, invasive and built to fail. The fewer IoT gadgets you own, the safer your home becomes.
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Zcash’s surge has set off panic among Bitcoin purists and institutions that want crypto domesticated. Privacy is back on the table and the usual suspects are furious.
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The Federal Court issued a five point eight million penalty against Australian Clinical Labs for a breach affecting 223000 people. It confirms that companies guarding sensitive data keep failing while regulators act only after the damage is permanent.
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A California judge has shut down a decade long program where police used utility smart meter data to scan entire neighborhoods without suspicion. The ruling confirms that mass data sharing by utilities crosses clear legal limits.
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Researchers scraped 3.5 billion WhatsApp profiles using WhatsApp’s own contact discovery feature. No hack. No breach. Just a system that exposes too much data by design.
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Hidden documents show Meta estimates up to 10% of its 2024 revenue comes from scam advertisements and that its platforms display 15 billion “higher risk” scam ads each day.
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Britain now arrests people for tweets, memes and opinions. Australia is copying the same digital ID structure that lets it happen.
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The GUARD Act claims to protect kids, but the fine print reveals a mass identity check for every American and a ban on teens using basic digital tools.
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Flock Safety built a private surveillance empire by turning neighbourhoods into checkpoints and handing your data to police and federal agencies. Here is how the system really works.
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WireGuard stripped VPNs back to what matters, modern cryptograpy, tiny attack surface, insane speed, and zero legacy baggage. Here is why we built Blackout on top of it.
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A contractor leaked over seventy thousand government ID images tied to Discord accounts. Safety laws created the target.
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‘Child safety’ laws are being used to justify nationwide identity verification. Here's how digital ID systems and age checks merge into one surveillance framework.
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A simple guide to what Linux is, why it exists, and how to install it. Learn why privacy users trust it and how to start safely.
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Naomi Brockwell cuts through the noise with practical privacy that works in the real world.
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The Five Eyes alliance turned wartime cooperation into a permanent surveillance network. Here’s how it formed and what it means for privacy.
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