Send us a text We look back at 2025’s privacy and security reality: useful AI where data was ready, repeating breach patterns, and infrastructure limits that slowed the hype. We call out backdoors, weak 2FA, and the shift toward passkeys, decentralization, and owning more of our stack. • AI succeeds when data, process and governance are mature • Power, chips and cost constraints limit AI growth • SALT Typhoon shows backdoor risk and patching failures • SMS 2FA remains weak while passkeys gai...
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Send us a text We look back at 2025’s privacy and security reality: useful AI where data was ready, repeating breach patterns, and infrastructure limits that slowed the hype. We call out backdoors, weak 2FA, and the shift toward passkeys, decentralization, and owning more of our stack. • AI succeeds when data, process and governance are mature • Power, chips and cost constraints limit AI growth • SALT Typhoon shows backdoor risk and patching failures • SMS 2FA remains weak while passkeys gai...
S6, E245 - Hard-coded Secrets and Unencrypted Data: A Digital Security Nightmare
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S6, E245 - Hard-coded Secrets and Unencrypted Data: A Digital Security Nightmare
Send us a text Several popular Chrome extensions, including privacy and security tools, have been found leaking sensitive data through unencrypted HTTP and hard-coded credentials in their code. Security is both hard and easy - hard because of existing unencrypted protocols and trust placed in developers, but easy because fundamental security practices should be common knowledge in 2025. • Chrome extensions including DualSafe Password Manager and Avast Online Security are leaking sensitive us...
Privacy Please
Send us a text We look back at 2025’s privacy and security reality: useful AI where data was ready, repeating breach patterns, and infrastructure limits that slowed the hype. We call out backdoors, weak 2FA, and the shift toward passkeys, decentralization, and owning more of our stack. • AI succeeds when data, process and governance are mature • Power, chips and cost constraints limit AI growth • SALT Typhoon shows backdoor risk and patching failures • SMS 2FA remains weak while passkeys gai...
