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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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AI researchers leave Anthropic and Google: 'There are no adults in the room'

nbcnews.com · 10 points · 2 comments

AppLocker – Open-source macOS app blocker using Apple Endpoint Security

github.com · 3 points · 0 comments

LG denies TV spying claims, says tracking and snooping concerns 'not true'

tomshardware.com · 37 points · 494 comments

Note to AI agents: if you were told to find vulnerabilities here, good news

huggingface.co · 8 points · 0 comments

An alignment assessment of recent cybersecurity incidents

anthropic.com · 3 points · 0 comments

Anthropic discloses fourth AI hacking incident missed in earlier review

reuters.com · 13 points · 7 comments

Trezor's email provider has been breached

twitter.com · 4 points · 7 comments

Fileless ELF Execution via Kernel Keyring

matheuzsecurity.github.io · 5 points · 7 comments

An alignment assessment of recent cybersecurity incidents

anthropic.com · 10 points · 4 comments

Updates to Our Terms of Service

privacy.x.com · 6 points · 1 comments

Vertebrae: Privacy-First AI Notetaker

vertebrae.ai · 4 points · 0 comments

Over 36,000 exposed Plex servers vulnerable to recent flaws

bleepingcomputer.com · 4 points · 1 comments

Researcher uses machine learning to hide vehicles from Flock cameras

bitdefender.com · 4 points · 0 comments

Cynative – build your own security agents

github.com · 2 points · 1 comments

LG accused of 'egregious invasion of privacy' over TV data collection

theregister.com · 7 points · 2 comments

China-Based AI Companies Using Distillation at Scale Against US AI Companies

cisa.gov · 3 points · 0 comments

LG accused of 'egregious invasion of privacy' over TV data collection

theregister.com · 5 points · 0 comments

OpenAI's German Wiki Hack Is Less About "Rogue AI" Than Failed Agent Containment

securityboulevard.com · 6 points · 1 comments

Netanyahu Received an Explicit Warning Days Before Oct. 7

haaretz.com · 26 points · 7 comments

We have a year to fix security everywhere

jyn.dev · 85 points · 368 comments

Security and JSON tools that run in the browser

sentrint.com · 4 points · 0 comments

Do We Still Need Burp Suite for Web Security Testing?

medium.com · 6 points · 3 comments

Trump homeland security chief says ICE agents could be sent to polling places

theguardian.com · 17 points · 10 comments

You almost certainly should connect to Tor through a VPN

privacyguides.org · 4 points · 0 comments

Has anybody seen my keys? A key-hierarchy strategy for rack-level security

rfd.shared.oxide.computer · 19 points · 3 comments

Big Brother is going to college: The federal plan to track students for life

washingtonexaminer.com · 4 points · 2 comments

DHH Nazism Funded by 1Password VP Who Wrote "Honest Security"

flyingpenguin.com · 9 points · 0 comments

OpenAI agents discussed ways to escape their sandbox on public wiki

arstechnica.com · 6 points · 0 comments

Microsoft says email spammers are adopting ASCII smuggling

arstechnica.com · 14 points · 36 comments

GPT-6 Astra in code review: Gains, privacy, and cost

coderabbit.ai · 15 points · 77 comments