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Privacy of Photos.app’s Enhanced Visual Search

January 6 2025 By Bruce Schneier in Apple, Security

Initial speculation about a new Apple feature.

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Friday Squid Blogging: Anniversary Post

January 4 2025 By Bruce Schneier in Security, squid

I made my first squid post nineteen years ago this week. Between then and now, I posted something about squid every week (with maybe only a few exceptions). There...

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ShredOS

January 3 2025 By Bruce Schneier in Security

ShredOS is a stripped-down operating system designed to destroy data. GitHub page here.

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Google Is Allowing Device Fingerprinting

January 3 2025 By Bruce Schneier in Google, Privacy, Security

Lukasz Olejnik writes about device fingerprinting, and why Google’s policy change to allow it in 2025 is a major privacy setback. EDITED TO ADD (1/12): Shashdot thread.

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