Think your online alias keeps you safe? This episode reveals how advanced language models are making it trivial to de-anonymize users at scale, challenging everything we thought we knew about internet privacy.
- Anthropic & Mozilla improve Firefox's security.
- Apple & Google begin testing cross-platform RCS encryption.
- Ubuntu's SUDO starts echoing asterisks.
- Inviting a web proxy into your home.
- Apple devices cleared by Germany for NATO's use.
- A serious remote takeover of OpenClaw.
- TokTok won't encrypt messaging for visibility.
- Microsoft bans the term "Microslop" on Discord.
- Lot's of great listener feedback.
- LLMs could make Orwell's 1984 seem optimistic.
Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1069-Notes.pdf
Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte
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