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Law enforcement needs a warrant to walk into your house, but they can pull years of your emails, location data, and private messages without one. @NaomiBrockwellTV breaks down how a 1970s case about how a telephone booth (and the "third party doctrine" the courts built on top of it) became the legal foundation for modern digital surveillance, and how it carries over poorly into big tech...

Canada's Bill C-22 is being sold as "encryption neutral" lawful access legislation, but Signal's already threatened to pull out of the country over it, and Apple and Meta are publicly opposed. Here's what the bill actually does and why it's a problem even if you don't live in Canada, and why setting this precedent now could leak into encryption fights worldwide....

A brutal week for Microsoft! Seven stories in one week, including an actively exploited Exchange zero-day, the MiniPlasma SYSTEM-access exploit, and many more at Pwn2Own Berlin. Plus a 600-package npm supply chain attack, Signal threatening to leave Canada over Bill C-22, Meta's new AI age detection, and quiet changes at Bitwarden that have a lot of you worried. 🔎 EasyOptOuts is the easy, af...

"Contact your reps" sounds like wishful thinking, until you understand how laws actually get passed. @NaomiBrockwellTV explains the two ways politicians get reelected (campaign donations from lobbyists, and constituents who'll punish them at the ballot box), why 10 calls is genuinely enough to get a rep briefed on an issue, and why the political fight matters even if you think tech...

Building privacy tools used to be neutral technology, now developers are being arrested for it. @NaomiBrockwellTV breaks down the Samourai Wallet case, the ongoing Roman Storm / Tornado Cash fight, and why privacy can't be won on the tech front alone. The takeaway: legislation, litigation, and technology are all battles we have to fight at the same time. This is a clip from our full interview...

E-ink displays that promise ambient, distraction-free information sound great in theory. TRMNL delivers on the concept, with open firmware & open hardware, but the reality of living with it is more nuanced. Here are my thoughts! 🔗 SOURCES & LINKS • TRMNL: https://usetrmnl.com • TRMNL BYOS (self-hosting): https://docs.usetrmnl.com/go/byos 🔎 RELATED VIDEOS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N...

Decentralized tech promises freedom from gatekeepers, but if you don't know how to use it privately, individuals can still be targeted even when the system itself can't be shut down. @NaomiBrockwellTV explains why pseudonymity was never the same as privacy, how Bitcoin's "just don't link your real-world identity" advice was always flawed, and what the Web3 world is fi...

The federal government doesn't need a warrant to buy your location data, your financial records, or your private information from data brokers. The Surveillance Accountability Act wants to change that. In this Techlore Talks interview, Henry sits down with Naomi Brockwell, host of NBTV and president/founder of The Ludlow Institute. They discuss the bill, Naomi's three-pillar approach to...

Welcome to Techlore Office Hours - your weekly chance to get privacy, security, and digital rights questions answered live! This is unscripted, real-time discussion about what you're dealing with, so welcome in and bring any questions you have! 🎯 HOW IT WORKS: 1. Submit questions in advance: https://techlore.palform.app/ask 2. Techlorians (members) get questions answered first 3. Everyone ca...

"Privacy is dead, lol." "You're naive to still care." If you've seen those comments under every privacy story, you've witnessed an engineered hopelessness (digital resignation) with a clear designer and a measurable cost. In this video, I break down who built it, why it's a lie, and the simple, free things you can do right now that produce results you can ac...

Linux gets hit with a third major vulnerability in as many weeks, a Palantir-built database of 20 million people, and Android delivers both bad news (a new VPN leak Google has refused to patch) and good news (intrusion logging for high-risk users). Plus encrypted RCS finally arrives in iOS 26.5, Instagram quietly kills its end-to-end encrypted DMs, and the usual roundup of data breaches, threats,...

iOS 26.5 just brought end-to-end encrypted RCS messaging via MLS between iPhone and Android for the first time ever, but the headlines aren't telling you what it actually protects, who can use it, and where it falls short. Here's the full breakdown of what's worth celebrating, what's still missing, and what I'm personally doing about it! 🔗 SOURCES & LINKS • Written Br...

Google's new reCAPTCHA can require Google Play Services to pass, meaning a de-Googled phone will fail the "are you human?" check. Combined with mandatory developer verification and AOSP going private, the pattern over the last year is impossible to ignore. Here's what I think it means for Android, custom ROMs, and the open-source community that built this whole ecosystem. 🔒 A...

Utah just passed SB73, the first law in the US to take direct aim at VPNs, and it already went into effect May 6th. The law requires adult content sites to verify the age of every Utah user even if they're using a VPN (aka...everyone!) which experts say is technically impossible to comply with without verifying every person on earth. This is a blueprint other states are watching, and VPNs jus...

Welcome to Techlore Office Hours - your weekly chance to get privacy, security, and digital rights questions answered live! This is unscripted, real-time discussion about what you're dealing with, so welcome in and bring any questions you have! 🎯 HOW IT WORKS: 1. Submit questions in advance: https://techlore.palform.app/ask 2. Techlorians (members) get questions answered first 3. Everyone ca...

This week's Surveillance Report covers the most severe Linux threat in years sending researchers and admins scrambling, Apple patching the bug police were using to extract deleted Signal messages from iPhones, Utah's new law regulating VPNs taking effect, and Microsoft Edge inexplicably storing your passwords in plaintext memory. 🔗 SOURCES & LINKS • Shownotes: https://techlore.tech/...

Welcome to Techlore Office Hours - your weekly chance to get privacy, security, and digital rights questions answered PSEUDO-live this week! This is unscripted, real-time discussion about what you're dealing with, so welcome in and bring any questions you have! 🎯 HOW IT WORKS: 1. Submit questions in advance: https://techlore.palform.app/ask 2. Techlorians (members) get questions answered fir...

You left your comments, I answered...from the Signal vs. Session debate to Android's dangerous lockdown trend, browser wars, VPN bans, and why "there's nothing I can do" is the most dangerous thing you can say about digital rights. 🔗 SOURCES & LINKS • Become a Techlorian: https://techlore.tech/support/#/portal/signup • Privacy Tool Essentials: https://essentials.techlore.t...

AI is everywhere, including Firefox. But, unlike many services, Mozilla has chosen to offer some toggles to turn them off completely. In this interview, Henry sits down with Adam Fishman, Mozilla's VP of Product, to cover the philosophy behind Firefox's AI features, how Smart Window works, the controls that let you turn everything off, if AI is even useful and why they are pursuing this,...

Welcome to Techlore Office Hours - your weekly chance to get privacy, security, and digital rights questions answered live! This is unscripted, real-time discussion about what you're dealing with, so welcome in and bring any questions you have! 🎯 HOW IT WORKS: 1. Submit questions in advance: https://techlore.palform.app/ask 2. Techlorians (members) get questions answered first 3. Everyone ca...

Helium Browser has been one of the most requested first looks from the community, so here it is. Built by a two-person team, Helium is an open source Chromium-based browser that ships with uBlock Origin and provides an experience with zero bloat. Can it compete with Brave? In this video I showcase the differences and who I think Helium is (and isn't) for. A couple things worth noting: Helium...

Most people think their passwords are safe. Most people are wrong. Henry sits down with Ryan Luibrand, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Bitwarden, to cover why open source changes the trust equation, the LastPass data breach, how KDF algorithms work, whether storing your TOTP codes in your password manager is a good idea, and more. 🔗 SOURCES & LINKS • Bitwarden: https://bitwarden.com • Sec...

Waterfox announced recently they would be launching a version of their privacy-focused, open source Firefox-based browser with Brave Shields instead of UBO, I’m excited! Their blog: https://www.waterfox.com/blog/15-years-of-forking/ Forgive me for my horrible short skills ☠️ ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVee1OZut_o

Brave just released Brave Origin. A paid, stripped-down version of their browser with no AI, no crypto wallet, no rewards, and no telemetry. I paid $60 to test it live and compare it directly to regular Brave. Linux users get it for free! Is this a legitimate solution to a real problem, or is Brave just charging you to undo their own choices? 🔗 SOURCES & LINKS • Our written breakdown: https:/...

Age verification is spreading fast...and this week the US and EU both made major moves, taking completely different approaches. We break down exactly what each one does and why both have long-term implications that go far beyond protecting kids. This one matters whether you're in the US (Parents Decide Act) or Europe with their open source + Zero Knowledge Proof approach. 🔒 Sponsored by Prot...