I'm not sure I'm quite ready to use this... Still I like the idea, make some noise and have companies turning to those invasive ads to just pay for nothing. The more users the better I guess.

Yep, it's worse than the usual triangulation everyone thinks about. It's right there in the protocol, or why you'd better not let the GPS on all the time.

Those are indeed getting more popular. In a way that's unfortunate, we shouldn't need them so much.

What a surprise... No really who would have expected this could happen? I heard so many times "I have nothing to hide" over the years. When something like this happens you suddenly wish you were a bit more careful with your privacy and the privacy of the people around you.

Are we surprised? Of course not... As soon as you backup the keys on someone else's server BitLocker can't do anything to ensure privacy.

Clearly the regulators don't really understand the level of intrusiveness they're unleashing with mandating age gates. This is one more layer of surveillance for large parts of the population.

If you needed a reminder about why you can't trust WhatsApp, this is a good explanation.

Email encryption is indeed still an open issue. There's no fix in sight for it. It's mostly a lack of political will though, so none of the big players are going to change anything.

Probably one of the most important talks of 39C3. It's a powerful call to action for the European Union to wake up and do the right thing to ensure digital sovereignty for itself and everyone else in the world. The time is definitely right due to the unexpected allies to be found along the way. It'd be a way to turn the currently bad geopolitical landscape into a bunch of positive opportunities.

There are just too many of those cameras deployed. The fact that they are badly secured are compounding the negative effects.

This is totally misguided... Let's hope no one will succeed passing such dangerously stupid bills.

Some relationships here are definitely shady. Be careful who you trust with your traffic.

Interesting idea, trying to bridge the best of both UUID options.

Indeed, you can't trust claims of the big cloud players. If asked by they will hand out your data, wherever it is hosted.

Early days for that service. Let's hope it improves infrastructure wise.

Interesting initiative to have DNS servers compliant with GDPR, respecting your privacy and with the filtering you need. Now the real question is how long it'll live by its mission.

Or why CAPTCHA might become something of the past. I guess they'll live a bit longer as they become more and more privacy invasive.

Nice new tool from the Tor project. Looks like it'll make it really easy to push traffic to Tor from the command line.

Clearly there is too much telemetry in most browsers by default and it's worsening. There are a couple of exceptions though.

This also carries privacy concerns indeed even for local models. It all depends how it's inserted in the system.