SN 1015: Spatial-Domain Wireless Jamming - Firefox Privacy Policy, Signal Leaving Sweden?


Mar 04 2025 172 mins   128

  • Firefox amends their privacy policy -- the world melts down.

  • Signal threatens to leave Sweden.

  • Aftermath of the massive $1.5 billion Bybit ETH heist.

  • It turns out that it wasn't actually Bybit's fault.

  • "The Lazarus Bounty" monitoring and management site.

  • Mozilla's commitment to Manifest V2 (and the uBlock Origin).

  • What does the ACM's plea for memory-safe languages mean for developers?

  • What exactly are memory-safe languages?

  • Australia joins the Kaspersky ban.

  • Gmail plans to switch from SMS to QR code authentication.

  • A SpinRite success and some fun feedback.

  • An astonishing new technology for targeted radio jamming

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1015-Notes.pdf


Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte


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