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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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Apple unveiled the MacBook Neo, the company's foray into a low-cost laptop. The iPhone Fold's supposed design has leaked through 3D CAD rendering files. And a toolkit for hacking iPhones has leaked.

18 years later, Apple ships a $599 computer.

Apple's TikTok ads for the MacBook Neo are the right kind of weird.

Apple creates adorable little Finder guy to promote its adorable little Mac.

The new Apple begins to emerge.

Apple 'Ultra' products expansion is up next after MacBook Neo launch.

iPhone Fold design leaks in purported 3D CAD rendering files.

Apple's 'HomePad' gets launch timing update via leaker.

Apple's 512GB Mac Studio vanishes, a quiet acknowledgment of the RAM shortage.

Apple Music to add Transparency Tags to distinguish AI music, says report.

Apple ran a test on the App Store to see if AI could improve search result rankings.

Apple geoblocking downloads of ByteDance-owned apps in the US.

A toolkit for hacking iPhones, possibly created for the U.S. Government, has leaked.

F1: The Stream - how the launch leveraged Apple's entire ecosystem.

'Apple' Review: Reinvention Incorporated.

Picks of the Week

Christina's Pick: What's Your JND Game

Andy's Pick: Kids, Wait Till You Hear This

Jason's Pick: Cloth Pro Max

Leo's Pick: Art Bits from HyperCard

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, Jason Snell, and Christina Warren

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Between copyright-free AI art, government blacklists, and data brokers run amok, this episode spotlights the fierce new battles for privacy, agency, and control in our digital lives. Plus, hear Cory Doctorow break down why the AI gold rush may be headed for a colossal crash.

Pentagon Officially Tells Anthropic It Is a Supply Chain Risk

Trump moves to blacklist Anthropic AI from all government work

If AI is a weapon, why don't we regulate it like one?

Sam Altman's greed and dishonesty are finally catching up to him

ChatGPT user base surges 350% in 18 months as it nears 1 billion weekly active users

AI-generated art can't be copyrighted after the Supreme Court declines to review the rule

Chardet dispute shows how AI will kill software licensing, argues Bruce Perens

Grammarly is using our identities without permission

Alphabet Grants Sundar Pichai Stock Awards Worth Up to $686 Million

Google vs Epic Games ends with Android app stores, lower fees

Google Ends Its 30% App Store Fee, Welcomes Third-Party App Stores - Slashdot

Xbox CEO confirms next-gen 'Project Helix' console will play PC games

Motorola Partners With GrapheneOS - Slashdot

Data Broker Breaches Fueled Nearly $21 Billion in Identity-Theft Losses

CBP Tapped Into the Online Advertising Ecosystem To Track Peoples' Movements

Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous 'Stop Cop City' Protester

COPPA 2.0 passes the Senate again, unanimously this time

South Korean Police Lose Seized Crypto By Posting Password Online

Iranian drone strikes at Amazon sites raise alarms over protecting data centers

Charter Gets FCC Permission To Buy Cox, Become Largest ISP In the US

How Big Diaper absorbs billions of extra dollars from American parents

Anne Wojcicki's Plan to Revive 23andMe: Rich Donors, Improved Tests—and Maybe Even MAHA

Bundle of human neurons hooked to silicon learns to stumble through Doom

10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips

Seagate Just Unleashed 44TB Hard Drives

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Guests: Joey de Villa and Cory Doctorow

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Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte host a special episode of Security Now live from ThreatLocker's Zero Trust World 2026 in Orlando, Florida.

The final frontier of security is internal. Today, we have the tools, techniques and technologies to thwart attacks originating from outside our perimeter. We're now good at protecting our borders. But major high profile breaches occurring over the past several years have revealed that insufficient attention has been given to the security of our internal systems and networks. Today's greatest security weaknesses result from decades of system design, deployment and policy that have placed far too much trust on the conduct of those on the inside, behind our borders. Whether deliberate, inadvertent, or externally penetrating, the greatest challenge we now face is that of designing and deploying our internal security with strict adherence to the principles of least privilege and zero trust.

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A crafty new breed of social engineering attack is tricking users into launching malware straight from their clipboard, exposing a fresh vulnerability in Windows that even tech pros could fall for. Leo Laporte and Steve Gibson break down how the latest ClickFix and CrashFix exploits are outsmarting traditional defenses.

The lowdown on last week's "no turn" picture of the week.

Is an AI-driven hacking campaign a big deal now.

Clause used in multiple Mexican government attacks.

Apple continues to be confronted with age restrictions.

COPPA needs an exception to allow age collection.

Meta swamps law enforcement with AI-slop CSAM reports.

Roskomnadzor has been busy blocking VPNs. Guess how many.

The UK tries to report their self-scanning success.

Remember that hacker who extorted the psychotherapy patients.

Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters is actively recruiting women.

Cisco lands another breathtakingly rare 10.0 CVSS.

VulnCheck's report on 2025 vulnerabilities and exploits.

Steve discovers a fabulous $72 Hardware Security Module.

A listener shares an interesting AI service discovery.

The very potent "ClickFix" exploit evolves

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Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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