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Browser Fingerprinting (Guide)
How a device gets identified from the shape of its requests, what resists it, and what a fingerprint is worth.
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Privacy, Security, and the Open Internet
Independently maintained privacy and digital-security guides with a structured, source-linked public-record archive. Every guide cites its sources. Every archive entry separates what a record shows from what someone claimed about it.
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What the encryption protects, what the provider still sees, and why metadata is usually the real story.
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A worked primer on data about data: what leaks even with perfect encryption, and the measures that actually reduce it.
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Using a Password Manager (Guide)
Why password reuse is the main threat, what to look for in a manager, and how to migrate without a lockout.
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xz-utils Backdoor (CVE-2024-3094) (Archive)
A build-time backdoor in liblzma, planted through a multi-year social engineering campaign against a single maintainer, and caught by a performance regression.
Archive privacy laws
EU Digital Services Act (Regulation 2022/2065) (Archive)
The EU framework for online intermediaries, including conditional liability exemptions, notice and action duties, and restrictions on targeted advertising to minors.
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California Consumer Privacy Act as amended by the CPRA (Archive)
The CCPA and the California Privacy Rights Act, and the rights they created for California consumers.
Archive security incidents
Log4Shell (CVE-2021-44228) (Archive)
A remotely exploitable JNDI lookup in Apache Log4j 2, the disclosure-to-exploitation window, and the supply chain behind it.
Archive security incidents
Colonial Pipeline Ransomware Attack (Archive)
The 7 May 2021 ransomware attack on the operator of the largest US fuel pipeline, the ransom payment, and the recovery of most of it.
Archive corporate privacy
Apple App Tracking Transparency (Archive)
Apple introduced a permission requirement for app tracking across companies and access to the advertising identifier.
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A short source-linked digest of the disclosure that identified a backdoor in XZ Utils 5.6.0 and 5.6.1.
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