Twitter is Dead to Me – What Really Happened This Week

As you probably know, Twitter got hacked (again) this week. Here’s what happened.
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Microsoft Sued for LinkedIn Clipboard Snooping Scare

LinkedIn got caught reading personal data from iPhone clipboards. Now a user is suing Microsoft’s social network.
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Police Buy Hacked Data, to Fish for Evidence—Is That Even Legal?

A firm called SpyCloud is selling your data to law enforcement. And the sources of that data are hackers.
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F5 BIG-IP Has Huge, Enormous, Bad, Scary Security Holes (Patch NOW)

Drop everything: A CVSS score of 10 is as bad as it gets. This F5 BIG-IP vulnerability lets crims pwn your entire network.
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1,000 False Wakewords: A Letter! Buy 200 Toilet Rolls

Researchers have found a thousand ways to say smart-speaker wakewords, highlighting the privacy problems. Again.
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TikTok Banned: 59 Chinese Apps Blocked in India

India blocks 59 Chinese apps, including TikTok, over national security fears.
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Encryption: Politicians Try to Outlaw Math (Again)

As we all know by now, it’s impossible to meet the irreconcilable aims of data security and government backdoors.
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Best of 2020: BlueLeaks is Huge FAIL for Anonymous and DDoSecrets

Anonymous and Distributed Denial of Secrets have published 269 GB of private law-enforcement data. What were they thinking?
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HUGE Google Chrome Spyware Ring: 111 Add-ons,15K Domains

Thought Google Chrome was safe? Think again. Researchers find enormous mess of browser extensions that spy on you.
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Twitter Nukes 32,000 More State Trolls, Mostly From China

Chinese government trolls have been feeding racial unrest and lying about Hong Kong, according to Twitter.
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