Links tagged “privacy”

bobdahacker.com

every note-taking bot you invite to a call gets a full copy of everything said in it.

thereallo.dev

Reports invisible Unicode characters in the system prompt that encode the endpoint, domain and timezone a request came from.

simonwillison.net

A honeypot site with nested links turned the web_fetch tool into an exfiltration path for data already in the conversation.

x.com

A post reporting that Grok Build silently uploaded the poster's whole home directory — SSH keys, password manager database, documents, photos — to xAI's servers.

support.claude.com

The support page for identity checks: a government photo ID and a selfie, verified through Persona, for safety and compliance.

desfontain.es

Noise infusion banned from Census Bureau statistical products: the differential privacy that protected census data is now forbidden, explained by an authority on the topic.

buttondown.com

How email tracking works behind the scenes

betterlytics.io

Betterlytics: an open-source cookieless web analytics tool

z.cash

Homepage of Zcash, a privacy-focused cryptocurrency offering shielded peer-to-peer transactions, with guides to wallets, exchanges and the network.