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Episodes
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Is your LG TV listening?
... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cy5bBAd5ITI
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Revolut Just Had the Most Embarrassing Data Breach
... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3ZE0CmtVzg
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The Nonprofit Fighting to Keep DNS Private (Quad9 Interview)
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 they are being sued, DNS vs. VPNs, and how a...
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Revolut Just Had the Most Embarrassing Data Breach
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 rogue AI agents and why I've hit a breaking point...
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Password Manager Tier List 2026. Do you agree with the list?
Don’t take the tiers too seriously 👀 The full explanation behind each ranking is on Techlore’s YouTube channel. Full video linked to this Short. Do you agree with the list? ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U57u3LNUimE
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Everyone's New Apple Watch Is Listening To You Now? - Techlore Office Hours Live
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! 🎯 HOW IT WORKS: 1. Submit questions in advance:...
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Flock has a new AI tool for police
... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jHYJWq9chA
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States Are Dropping Flock
... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWc1NdM6qBQ
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153 Million Driver’s Licenses Leaked
... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7ysiGs1a0Q
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The ULTIMATE Proton Hardening Guide (Part 2)
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 (Kickback): https://go.getproton.me/SH2qs • Proton Unlimited...
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The ID Check Company That Leaked 153 Million Licenses
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, plus Chrome officially pulling uBlock Origin and...
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Why Is Privacy Treated Like a Personality Flaw? - Techlore Office Hours Live
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! 🎯 HOW IT WORKS: 1. Submit questions in advance:...
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California Age Verification: The Good, Bad & Ugly
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, and the ugly. Thank you to Cake Wallet for...
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Apple Fixed A Leak Without Telling Anyone
... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTxsK-p_l-Y
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AliExpress was caught using silent audio to fingerprint visitors’ browsers
... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iggZMFmmgzc
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Surveillance in China vs. USA — what’s the difference?
... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TChEaVV3vko
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Lessons from Police Interrogation & Being Deported from China (Josh Summers Interview)
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 him about digital privacy while traveling, and…
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Is Public Wi-Fi Safe?
... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQA1tgPCTgY
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Apple Fixed A Leak Without Telling Anyone. Plus More VPN News
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 turns license plates into names, addresses, and...
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What Do You Do When Privacy Burnout Hits? - Techlore Office Hours Live
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! 🎯 HOW IT WORKS: 1. Submit questions in advance:...
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What is Flock Safety? Bob from DeFlock explains.
... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEr3uVyXKFc
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A parent sends a photo of their sick child to a doctor, and ends up under police investigation..
... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP9wEqOX9wc
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Apps are scanning your photos
... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JX379ifCQw4
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AI Hack - The PR Spin!
... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC_ymWYBbJ8
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Rogue AI models are hacking companies. Who's really to blame?
... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEaybWSKqnk
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Apple's Private Relay Is Leaking Your IP
Three cracks opened up in Apple's privacy story this week: iCloud Private Relay leaking real IP addresses through DNS prefetching, WebTransport, and passkeys; Hide My Email exposing real addresses in bounce logs; and an unprecedented wave of spyware notifications going out to targeted users. Also...
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Mile-high hack? An evil twin WiFi showed up on a Delta flight full of DEFCON attendees.
... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaT2NZ38Rrc
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They're Mapping Every Surveillance Camera in America (DeFlock Interview)
Flock Safety is one of several companies quietly building a searchable database of everyone's car — no warrant required, and no way to opt out. In this Techlore Talks interview, Bob from DeFlock breaks down how ALPR technology works, what "end-to-end encryption" really means in Flock's case, why...
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Is age verification really the solution?
61% of Americans want tighter social media oversight, but is age verification really the solution? What do you think? ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvYQX5eM_m4
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Comcast Turned Millions of Routers Into Motion Sensors
Comcast just turned millions of leased Xfinity routers into motion sensors that track movement through your home, and buried in the fine print is a clause letting them hand that data to third parties without telling you. Here's what Xfinity Shield actually does, why the tradeoff makes no sense…
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How To Check What Any Website Is Doing With Your Data
You can look up exactly which companies are getting your data from any website for free, in about a minute. But the tool everyone's sharing right now has a blind spot big enough that Facebook comes back completely clean. Here are three tools that actually show you what a site is doing, tested on…
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Signal without a phone number?
New commits hint it could be coming and it may be paid. Still just speculation. Would you pay for it? ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dr2Zdo1-6-s
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California Built a Delete Button for Your Data - Here's How It Works (Cal Privacy Interview)
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, why data brokers face fines of up to $40 million…
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Signal's Largest Updates in Years Are Finally Here
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 also cover Google hosting rival app stores in the…
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Did The Steam Deck Breach Hit You? Here's What To Do
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 addresses. Here's exactly what to do if you were...
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The Password Manager that Redefined KeePass (Strongbox Interview)
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 password managers, how Strongbox's sync tries to close...
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The AI Hacking Scandal That Keeps On Giving...
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 no idea. Plus Iran-linked hackers burrowing into...
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A State Just Forced the .com Registry to Lock a Site, Is This Legal? - Techlore Office Hours Live
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! 🎯 HOW IT WORKS: 1. Submit questions in advance:...
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Meet Firefox Nova: A First Look at the New Design
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, and a few hidden gems most people are going to…
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The ULTIMATE Guide to Protect Yourself from Chat Control
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 video breaks down how photo and message scanning...
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France Just Banned Social Media For Under-15s
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 systems. Also this week: a hidden device installed...
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Is Public WiFi Actually Dangerous? - Techlore Office Hours Live
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! 🎯 HOW IT WORKS: 1. Submit questions in advance:...
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Brave Just Copied Firefox's Best Feature (And Why That's Great)
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 to use browser profiles vs container tabs for...
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The Question That Makes Me Rethink Everything - Techlore Office Hours Live
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! 🎯 HOW IT WORKS: 1. Submit questions in advance:...
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3 Scam Signs From a Malwarebytes Expert
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 privacy is actually about. 🔗 SOURCES & LINKS •...
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EU Sneakily Passed Chat Control (What You Need to Know)
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 law cleared its Supreme Court hurdle while the…
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The Open Source Wallet That Collects Zero Data (Cake Wallet Interview)
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 shares this story, along with the history of Cake...
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The ULTIMATE Proton Hardening Guide
Proton has solid privacy & security out of the box, but a few tweaks can take the safety of your account to the max: 2FA, Proton Sentinel, metadata stripping, tracker blocking, and more. Welcome to the ultimate Proton Hardening Guide! Thank you to Proton for partnering with us on this video! 🔗...
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The UK Wants Your ID To Use The Internet
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 actually costs: uploading your ID to reach the…
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Which Password Manager Should You Actually Use? (2026 Tier List)
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. 🔗 SOURCES & LINKS • Tier List Permalink:...
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