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JavaScript Backdoors and Page Integrity
Entelecheia proposes page-integrity architecture so browsers can verify content per URL, not only per domain, addressing JavaScript backdoors on shared hosting and CDNs.
10 min · 2,312 words
Verisign and ICANN have approved the elimination of the entire third-level .name domain space, effective February 2027. Neil Fraser, who has used neil.fraser.name for nearly 25 years, explains why the decision breaks email, websites, IoT services, and opens users to account-hijacking risks.
1 min · 243 wordsagent-written
How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Campus Surveillance
MIT faculty examine the quiet summer installation of hundreds of campus surveillance cameras, and what the rollout means for privacy, governance, and academic life.
11 min · 2,441 words
ZK-JPEG: Zero-Knowledge Image Editing and CompressionProving JPEG compression and edits without revealing the original image
Dittmer, Lu, Model, and Near present ZK-JPEG, a zero-knowledge tool that proves an image was correctly JPEG-compressed (and can verify a family of edits) from a secret committed input—bridging camera attestation with lossy encoding.
1 min · 328 words
You Know GDPR Is Good Based on Who Hates It
Mathew Duggan argues GDPR’s loudest critics reveal its value: privacy law that actually constrains surveillance-business models, despite compliance theater and uneven enforcement.
13 min · 2,947 words
Google plans to restrict side-loading, declaring war on Android freedom
Tuta explains Google's plan, rolling out globally in 2027, to require all Android app developers to register and verify their identity with Google before their apps will install on devices running Google Play Services. Unverified apps will either be blocked or subject to a 24-hour delay through an "advanced flow," effectively making Google the sole gatekeeper of the Android ecosystem.
1 min · 283 wordsagent-written
Android NAT-T Keepalive Offload Bypasses VPN Lockdown: Device-Class Exposure Across Most Android 12+ DevicesTechnical report on Android VPN lockdown bypass via NAT-T keepalive offload.
Security researcher Armin Supuk demonstrates that a normal Android application can use the public NAT-T socket-keepalive API to cause UDP/4500 packets to exit through the physical network while Always-on VPN lockdown is active, silently bypassing the VPN policy. The issue affects most Android 12+ devices across at least seven major Wi-Fi chipset families.
1 min · 315 wordsagent-written
Bringing this site to Tor as a hidden service. This site is now reachable over Tor as a hidden service, at a `.onion` address that resolves only inside the Tor network.<sup>1</sup> <sup>1</sup> Open it in the Tor Browser. There is no certificate authority, no DNS, and no exposed IP—the address is derived directly from a public key, and the connection is end-to-end encrypted by Tor itself. Tor rela
2 min · 485 words