The most relevant new feature in iOS 26 for journalists, lawyers, activists, politicians, executives, and other high-profile figures wasn't really advertised to consumers at all. Rather, it was announced in a September 9th post on the Apple Security Research blog. Memory Integrity Enforcement: A complete vision for memory
For most protesters, activists, and journalists, your smartphone is an essential tool you depend on for organizing with your peers, accessing and distributing information, and helping others. It also represents a great risk, as a tool that is easily appropriated by authorities for targeted and mass surveillance. The perennial question
"No shady privacy policies or back doors for advertisers" proclaims the Firefox homepage, but that's no longer true in Firefox 128. Less than a month after acquiring the AdTech company Anonym, Mozilla has added special software co-authored by Meta and built for the advertising industry directly
After installing torrc and pointing your hidden service to your Caddy server: # Redirect base domain to www subdomain http://example.onion { redir http://www.example.onion{uri} } # Proxy all subdomains of example.com http://*.example.onion { @hostnames header_regexp hostname Host (\S+)\.example\.onion # note the backslashes before the dots
Today I'm going to walk you through running a local Monero node on your Synology NAS using the Container Manager app on the Synology DiskStation Manager 7 operating system. You will need to enter this text in Container Manager when you get to the compose file creation step
My latest video in which I talk about Mozilla Monitor Plus, a new automatic data broker opt-out tool from the creators of Firefox, and the ridiculousness that having to deal with data brokers legally sharing all your personal information in the United States is a thing at all. Video Notes
Privacy advocacy groups like the EFF and Fight for the Future have been warning about the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) since 2022 now, but it's still been working its way through Senate committees despite this, and it's never been closer to passing than now. To
Apple's press release yesterday reads with the professionally and poise of a teenager throwing a tantrum, it's amazing really. Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European UnionApple announced changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store impacting developers’ apps in
A browser tier list that actually has more than just the 10-15 usual suspects? Yep, I'm sharing my thoughts on a lot of browsers today. Let me know in a comment where your daily driver ranks and what you think about it! This whole list will of course
The recent move among U.S. states to add digital "age verification" to websites which serve adult content is a troubling one. Digital age verification systems are rife with privacy concerns, many requiring you to upload your government ID to third-party vendors or even directly to the website
The latest iOS 17.2 update arrived this week, bringing Contact Key Verification to the public. This feature, announced a year ago, promises to drastically improve the security of your iMessages through two technologies: Key Transparency, and Contact Key Verification. In this post I’ll talk about why this added
A video in which I respond to Mental Outlaw’s “Stop Using Tor With VPNs” video that somebody shared with me, and then also talk more about Tor security.