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DNS quietly reveals everywhere you go online - even on encrypted sites. In this interview, John Todd (CTO at Quad9) provides a DNS masterclass: how DNS works, the privacy implications, how to change your DNS, why Quad9 collects nothing on you, why...

A hacker emailed Revolut pretending to be a government agency, and Revolut handed over customers' passports, IDs, and financial details. Plus: the global age-verification wave forcing even more ID collection (EU, California, Microsoft), OpenAI's r...

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Welcome to Techlore Office Hours - your weekly chance to get privacy, security, and digital rights questions answered live! This is unscripted, real-time discussion about what you're dealing with, so welcome in and bring any questions you have! ...

Part 1 covered Proton Mail and your Proton account. This video covers the rest of the Proton suite: what to enable, what to ignore, and why. Thank you to Proton for partnering with us on this video! 🔗 SOURCES & LINKS • Proton Unlimited (Kickbac...

Welcome to Techlore Office Hours - your weekly chance to get privacy, security, and digital rights questions answered live! This is unscripted, real-time discussion about what you're dealing with, so welcome in and bring any questions you have! ...

An ID-verification company, IDScan.net, appears to have leaked scans of 153 million driver's licenses, then sold on a dark-web market called Nexus. This week I break down why this breach is the perfect example of everything wrong with ID uploads, ...

In 2027, your operating system is going to ask how old you are. California's age verification law (AB 1043) takes effect January 1st, and AB 1856 just carved Linux out of it. But the law still leaves many questions open, here's the good, the bad, ...

Josh Summers spent a decade living in western China before 14 police officers showed up at his door, accused him of espionage, and confiscated every device his family owned. This Techlore Talks interview covers what 17 days of interrogation taught...

Welcome to Techlore Office Hours - your weekly chance to get privacy, security, and digital rights questions answered live! This is unscripted, real-time discussion about what you're dealing with, so welcome in and bring any questions you have! ...

Four positive VPN stories in one week: Mullvad's new multihop modes, Obscura shipping on Windows, Apple quietly patching the iCloud Private Relay leak, and Firefox's free VPN rolling out to Android. Then it gets darker: Flock built an AI tool that...

Welcome to Techlore Office Hours - your weekly chance to get privacy, security, and digital rights questions answered live! This is unscripted, real-time discussion about what you're dealing with, so welcome in and bring any questions you have! ...

California created a free service that deletes your personal information from over 600 registered data brokers. Tom Kemp, Executive Director of the California Privacy Protection Agency (Cal Privacy), breaks down how the DROP system actually works,...

Signal just shipped its largest set of updates in years: A second phone can finally be a linked device, automatic key verification is rolling out alongside safety numbers, and there are commits hinting at registration without a phone number. I als...

Steam Deck and Framework owners both got caught in data breaches, but the plot twist is neither company was actually hacked. Both leaked through upstream vendors most customers have never heard of, exposing names, emails, phone numbers, and home a...

Once you use Strongbox, a community favorite KeePass client, it's hard to use anything else. Alex Logan is the VP of Engineering at Applause, the company behind Strongbox. He dives into why KeePass syncing works differently than cloud-based passwo...

OpenAI's rogue AI agent turned out to have hacked more than Hugging Face, and the more details come out, the less impressive it seems. Then Anthropic came forward with its own disclosure: three companies accessed during testing, two of which had n...

Firefox just shipped its biggest redesign in six years, and it's already live in Nightly. I put regular Firefox side-by-side with the new Nova UI to show you what's changed: rounded tabs, a reworked settings menu, Kit, the return of Compact Mode, ...

A parent sends a photo of their sick child to a doctor, and ends up under police investigation... welcome to 1984. Initiatives like Chat Control and other advancements around the world aim to make this the permanent state of the internet. This vid...

France just became the first country in Europe to ban social media for anyone under 15, the UK's incoming PM dropped the digital ID scheme entirely, and California's Senate killed its browser-level age mandate and carved out open source operating ...

Brave just shipped Containers, and Firefox just made them native, so the profiles-vs-containers debate that split these two browsers is finally over. This video demos both features side by side in Brave 1.92 and Firefox 153, and breaks down when t...

Every major global event brings the same scam tactics wearing a new mask. In this interview, David Ruiz, journalist and privacy advocate at Malwarebytes, breaks down how to identify (and avoid) scams, stalkerware vs. nation-state spyware, and what...

This week's a double-week catch-up: the EU just greenlit Chat Control even after Parliament voted against it, Microsoft had a brutal stretch between a decade-old Secure Boot flaw and a Windows Defender zero-day, Texas's app-store age verification ...

Your bank can freeze your account, block your transfers, and demand explanations for how you spend your own money. Cake Wallet founder & CEO Vik Sharma learned this firsthand when trying to transfer $90 between his accounts. In this interview, he ...

Proton has solid privacy & security out of the box, but a few tweaks can take the safety of your Proton account to the max: 2FA, Proton Sentinel, metadata stripping, tracker blocking, and more. Welcome to the ultimate Proton Hardening Guide! Th...

The UK just confirmed it's doubling down on the under-16 social media ban, and VPN restrictions might be next. Meanwhile, 60% of Americans say they support social media bans for minors, and almost none of them have been told what age verification ...

Your password manager is the most sensitive piece of software in your tech stack. It holds everything - your email, banking, work credentials, health records, crypto, and more. Here's how 12 of the most popular ones actually stack up. 🔗 SOURCE...

Apple is quietly downgrading Hide My Email...moving generated aliases to a new subdomain that makes it easy for apps and websites to detect and block anyone using a private email address. I also get into Google preparing to use your IP address for...

After years of recommending Apple Maps as a more private Google Maps alternative, that recommendation just got more complicated, because Apple Maps is getting ads. Here are three alternatives worth knowing about. 🔗 SOURCES & LINKS • OpenStree...

End-to-end encrypted file sharing may sound simple, but for Cryptee, it took five years to ship. In this interview, Henry sits down with John Ozbay, founder and CEO of Cryptee, to talk through why: preventing CSAM, why client-side scanning doesn't...

App tracking is mostly invisible, but now there's a free & open source iOS app that changes that. Loupe shows you what any app on your iPhone can quietly collect without asking for a single permission. This video walks through what it reveals, why...

Your VPN sees every site you visit, every app you use, and every search you make. Choosing the wrong one means trading your ISP's surveillance for something potentially worse. Here's our 3rd tier list of 2026! 🔗 SOURCES & LINKS • Techlore VPN...

Meta quietly embedded unreleased facial-recognition code, internally called "nametag" onto more than 50 million phones through its Meta AI app, then deleted it the day after Wired exposed it. This week I also get into Microsoft repos weaponized a ...

Most apps claiming to be "private and secure" are using language that sounds meaningful but commits to almost nothing. I broke this down after watching a Shark Tank segment on Qeepsake, a baby journal app that calls itself "absolutely private and ...

Firefox now has a free built-in VPN with 50GB of bandwidth per month. In this interview, Henry sits down with the Head of Firefox at Mozilla, to break down exactly how it works, what Mozilla can and can't see, the difference between Firefox VPN an...

Dashlane has confirmed hackers stole around 20 encrypted password vaults, and the company is being unusually quiet about how it happened. Plus the Pentagon admits US troops were tracked using commercial location data, Europe accelerates its move a...