Portable Secret is a tool that encrypts files into a single HTML file for secure sharing over untrusted channels, with password protection and client-side decryption, eliminating the need for third-party services to handle sensitive data.
Acronis discusses risks and best practices for protecting data during hypervisor migrations from VMware, emphasizing the importance of verified backups and cross-platform recovery capabilities.
Legal analysis of privacy and autonomy protections for commercial brain-computer interfaces, examining Minnesota's proposed neural privacy legislation (S.F. 1240) as a regulatory model while identifying implementation challenges around consent, technical standards, and constitutional barriers.
A personal essay critiquing Microsoft Windows' evolution toward a cloud-dependent, ad-laden, privacy-invasive platform with mandatory account sign-in, arguing for Linux and macOS as privacy-respecting alternatives.
A former DOGE operative at the Social Security Administration is accused in a whistleblower complaint of storing sensitive NUMIDENT and death master file data on a thumb drive and attempting to transfer it to his new employer, Leidos. The allegations come amid broader concerns about DOGE's handling of SSA data, including uploading NUMIDENT records to unsecured cloud servers and moving immigrant Social Security numbers into the death master file.