Conversations Leaves Google Play and Costs Nothing Now
Daniel Gultsch's Conversations is now free and off Google Play, ending the store income that had paid his rent since 2014.
Privacy & Security
Surveillance, cryptography, and who gets watched
Surveillance systems, cryptography, permissions, and the policy that decides who gets watched. The story is usually not the breach; it is the audit log nobody read, or the reason box somebody filled in with four letters.
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F-Droid's Biggest Redesign in 10 Years Arrives With a Warning
F-Droid ships its first full redesign in a decade — new navigation, rewritten in Kotlin Compose — while Google prepares to require every Android developer to register by 2027.
Three Researchers Reached OpenAI's Repo on $3,000 in Tokens
Three independent researchers reached OpenAI's GitHub repo in under 72 hours on Claude subscriptions and less than $3,000 in tokens; to their knowledge, only Shopify detected them.
Paris Prosecutors Open a Criminal Probe Into Smart Glasses Used to Film Women
Paris prosecutors have opened at least one criminal probe into suspected sexual harassment involving smart glasses used to film women in public without consent.
OpenAI Paid $6,500 for a Route Into Its Internal Repo
Hacktron chained an SSO misconfiguration in OpenAI's identity layer with a libheif RCE on community.openai.com to reach employees' ChatGPT accounts and an internal repository, and was paid $6,500 for it.
Cops Searched 19,000 Cameras With a Reason Box That Said asdfg
Audit logs show officers searching a 19,000-camera Flock network with reason-box entries like LMAO, idk and asdfg, and most departments did nothing about it.