Part of the ongoing Big Tech's War on Users series. Two weeks ago I wrote 271. That's The Number They're Telling You. — about the Firefox vulnerability announcement, what the number meant, what it conspicuously didn't say, and ended it asking Mozilla to show us the rest of the roll. Today they showed some of it. And...

Part of the ongoing Big Tech's War on Users series. Let's be honest about something first. Google has always collected everything — your searches, your location, your watch history, what you hovered over, how long you paused. That's not news, and if you're reading this series it's not a surprise. But Google has also, in...

Part of the ongoing Big Tech's War on Users series. Earlier this month I wrote The Rocket They Built Yesterday Morning — about Mozilla open-sourcing 0DIN, their agentic vulnerability scanner, with the warhead socket documented in the README and a continuously self-enriching probe library. Then Organics Not Required...

The EU launched an age verification app to protect children online. A researcher broke it in two minutes. That's not actually the problem.correction: as of posting it hasn't launched yet...my bad. The European Commission launched its age verification app on April 15, 2026. President von der Leyen announced it herself....

Microsoft rebuilt Windows Recall from scratch. A researcher broke it again in a few weeks. Microsoft's response: that's not a vulnerability. Part of the ongoing Big Tech's War on Users series. You remember Recall. Microsoft announced it in May 2024 as the flagship feature of their new Copilot+ AI PCs. It would take...

Part of the ongoing Big Tech’s War on Users series. When I started this series I figured I’d be documenting slow burns. The Proton piece went live yesterday. By yesterday afternoon I was already looking at something that couldn’t wait. Nobody told Mozilla. Yesterday — and I mean yesterday, the timestamp on the GitHub...

Part of the Big Tech's War on Users series Proton. The name comes up every single time someone asks where to go after Google. After Gmail. After that moment you realize free email means you're the product. For years, the privacy community has had one reliable answer: Proton. Swiss company. Swiss servers. Swiss law....