Quad9 Leaves France Rather Than Filter DNS for One Broadcaster
A French court ordered Quad9 to block domains for French users; the fine dropped to €1,000 a day and Quad9 chose to withdraw on November 24.
Privacy & Security
Surveillance, cryptography, and who gets watched
Surveillance systems, cryptography, permissions, and the policy that decides who gets watched. The story is usually not the breach; it is the audit log nobody read, or the reason box somebody filled in with four letters.
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LiteLLM 1.107.0 Shipped a Credential Stealer in All Seven Wheels
The compromised LiteLLM 1.107.0 wheels ran a credential stealer at every Python startup; 1.106.2, 1.107.0rc1 and 1.107.0rc2 are clean.
An Oklahoma Judge Calls Flock's Plate Network Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance
A federal judge in Oklahoma suppressed 91 pounds of meth evidence after ruling that a Flock plate query was an unconstitutional search, and called the network indiscriminate mass surveillance.
GrayKey Says It Can Freeze the iPhone's 72-Hour Reboot
Magnet Forensics claims GrayKey Preserve and an Evidence Preservation Mode can stop the 72-hour inactivity reboot, keeping a seized iPhone in a state police can read.
Conversations Leaves Google Play and Costs Nothing Now
Daniel Gultsch's Conversations is now free and off Google Play, ending the store income that had paid his rent since 2014.
F-Droid's Biggest Redesign in 10 Years Arrives With a Warning
F-Droid ships its first full redesign in a decade — new navigation, rewritten in Kotlin Compose — while Google prepares to require every Android developer to register by 2027.
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- Three Researchers Reached OpenAI's Repo on $3,000 in Tokens
- Paris Prosecutors Open a Criminal Probe Into Smart Glasses Used to Film Women
- OpenAI Paid $6,500 for a Route Into Its Internal Repo
- Cops Searched 19,000 Cameras With a Reason Box That Said asdfg
- Fable 5.1 Apparently Cracked a 370-Year-Old Cipher in 44 Minutes
- Cracking a 1999 Certificate Authority Key in 32 Hours
- Over 100 Cities Turn Off Flock Cameras