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Security stories on Hacker News range from critical CVE disclosures and supply-chain attacks to privacy policy changes and encryption debates. Practitioners, researchers, and skeptics weigh in with technical depth that mainstream coverage often misses.

This page aggregates the security and privacy discussions worth reading — vulnerability write-ups, incident postmortems, and the community's reaction to new threats and defenses.

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Meta Files Patent for Facial Recognition, Automatic Recording of People

privacyguides.org · 39 points · 12 comments

DEF CON dingus suspected of trying to take over Delta in-flight Wi-Fi

theregister.com · 6 points · 0 comments

Geekom admits to shipping malware-laced network drivers for AMD mini PCs

tomshardware.com · 5 points · 0 comments

Hackers hijack hotel Wi-Fi DNS to steal Microsoft 365 accounts

bleepingcomputer.com · 4 points · 1 comments

Flock-style scanners now track WiFi/Bluetooth identity from devices in your car

techradar.com · 28 points · 12 comments

Growth of CVEs fixed in Postgres looks exponential

twitter.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Privacy is an underrated advantage in Slack apps

3 points · 3 comments

How Samsung's Privacy Screen Works

ifixit.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Security scanner for your SaaS. Find and fix Vulnerabilities. 35% off

sentrint.com · 3 points · 0 comments

OpenAI rolling out ads for Europe later this month

openai.com · 22 points · 4 comments

OpenAI updates its Privacy Policy to include ads

3 points · 2 comments

Z.ai Security Disclosure

cvd.z.ai · 32 points · 5 comments

NIST Seeks Blueprint for AI-Era Overhaul of National Vulnerability Database

securityboulevard.com · 4 points · 0 comments

Google is making private AI practical with homomorphic encryption

blog.google · 134 points · 88 comments

Surveillance company Flock moves to increase oversight after police misuse

nbcnews.com · 5 points · 2 comments

France's tax authority had data stolen on 680k taxpayers

korben.info · 52 points · 37 comments

Who's Tracking You? Use This New Service to Find Out

krebsonsecurity.com · 9 points · 0 comments

Private security firms will soon be allowed to hack overseas cybercriminals

arstechnica.com · 5 points · 1 comments

Rsync 3.5.0: a huge number of security fixes

download.samba.org · 23 points · 1 comments

Terabytes of credentials leaked in supply-chain attack

arstechnica.com · 32 points · 0 comments

LoongLeak: A Vulnerability Affecting Chinese Loongson 3A5000 and 3A6000 CPUs

loongleakattack.com · 10 points · 0 comments

Flock updates privacy, accountability, security, and transparency safeguards

flocksafety.com · 28 points · 46 comments

FTC, States Act Against Hims and Hers for Deceptive Unlawful Privacy Practices

ftc.gov · 12 points · 2 comments

We eliminated 1,400 CVEs in NanoClaw's container images

echo.ai · 37 points · 14 comments

Orca – Instant cross-platform in-app purchase orchestration

5 points · 0 comments

White House taps security firms for offensive hack-back operations

bleepingcomputer.com · 23 points · 5 comments

Despite Updates, Flock's Creepy Cameras Remain Major Civil Liberties Threat

aclu.org · 11 points · 1 comments

Edge is dropping older extensions(Manifest V2), affecting popular privacy tools

malwarebytes.com · 26 points · 2 comments

Terabytes of credentials leaked in supply-chain attack

arstechnica.com · 7 points · 2 comments

Building Security Agents That Cannot Escape Their Trust Boundary

cynative.com · 8 points · 0 comments