Is This The End of Anonymous Reddit?
Our top stories this week:
- Reddit is putting more limits on Old.Reddit.com
- Cops Can Bypass iPhone’s Automatic Reboot to Get Into Locked Phones, Leaked Video Claims
- This study looks at how and with whom connected cars share your data
- New Attack Can Track You Across Operating Systems Without Elevated Privileges
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Updates from the Team
Privacy.com Situation is Insane
Recently, fellow YouTuber and digital rights activist Louis Rossmann revoked his endorsement of privacy.com over their partnership with Persona. This sparked some discussion on our forum, and in turn made us want to discuss the larger picture: problematic KYC laws and what we can do about it.
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Fria absolutely crushed it this week in regard to staying on top of breaking news. If you're not subscribed to our news briefs yet, I highly recommend it. This week he wrote about
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Site Changes Coming Soon
This week we had three commits that will appear in the next update. We revised our Android app installation guidance to recommend F-Droid Basic over Classic, we improved our wording in the Tor overview, and we removed the custom domain requirement on the email page after a recent pull accidentally re-added it. You can see all those changes and the discussions/reasons behind them on GitHub.
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Reddit is putting more limits on Old.Reddit.com
A few weeks ago, Reddit announced that people would no longer be able to use old.reddit.com unless they were signed in. Now Reddit has further tightened down and said that only accounts who have used it in the last six months can do so. Furthermore, Reddit is removing RSS compatibility. Unfortunately Reddit is still a useful source of news, commentary, and is primarily used by many privacy projects instead of an open forum, so this is a privacy hit.
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Cops Can Bypass iPhone’s Automatic Reboot to Get Into Locked Phones, Leaked Video Claims
In 2024, Apple quietly rolled out a new feature that automatically rebooted an iPhone if it hadn't been unlocked for more than 72 hours, thus putting it in the ultra-secure "Before First Unlock" state and making it harder to hack. A mobile forensics company now claims that they've been able to create a tool that prevents this from happening and preserves the phone's weaker "After First Unlock" state to help law enforcement access the device
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
This study looks at how and with whom connected cars share your data
Privacy veterans may remember that in 2023, Mozilla examined the privacy policies of numerous popular car manufacturers and declared it "the worst product category we have ever reviewed for privacy.” A new study took this a step further by actually observing the traffic of various cars and seeing what domains they connect to. It was exactly as bad as promised, but at least now we have more data.
Jonathan M. Gitlin
New Attack Can Track You Across Operating Systems Without Elevated Privileges
Researchers from Graz University of Technology in Austria have discovered a new attack that doesn't require any sort of hacking or vulnerability. It abuses the built-in subsystem monitors built in to all operating systems and uses that to extract sensitive information ranging from what sites you visit or files you have on your device all the way up to stealing passwords and private messages.
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