Discord’s recent push for mandatory age verification has sparked an unexpected arms race. The promise was elegant: a privacy-respecting system called “k-id” that never stores or transmits your actual face. Instead, it sends metadata—face geometry,...
Security researchers built an automated detection pipeline and uncovered a massive browser surveillance network. The findings are worse than you’d expect. The Core Insight A team of security researchers just published devastating findings: 287 Chrome...
Your browser extensions might be watching everything you do online—and selling that data to the highest bidder. A systematic security analysis has uncovered a massive surveillance network hiding in plain sight inside Google’s Chrome Web...
In a twist of poetic justice, a hacktivist has turned the tables on surveillance vendors by scraping half a million payment records from companies that profit from helping people spy on their partners and loved...
Amazon’s Super Bowl ad wasn’t just selling home security—it was normalizing the most extensive private surveillance infrastructure ever built in American neighborhoods. The Core Insight Ring’s new “Search Party” program, unveiled during Super Bowl LX,...
As Discord rolls out mandatory age checks worldwide, the tension between protecting minors and preserving user privacy reaches a new inflection point Discord announced this week that it’s rolling out age verification globally starting in...
The stalkerware industry has a security problem. Actually, it has 27 security problems—that’s how many companies in this space have been hacked or leaked sensitive data since 2017. The latest victim, uMobix, exposed payment information...
Cisco Talos has unveiled DKnife, a sophisticated adversary-in-the-middle framework that turns routers into surveillance platforms. Active since 2019, it represents a new frontier in state-sponsored infrastructure compromise. The Core Insight DKnife isn’t just malware—it’s a...
In a world of cloud-dependent AI services, one Rust developer decided to build something different: a fully local AI assistant that fits in a 27MB binary and keeps your data on your machine. The Core...