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Sean O'Brien

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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 3h
mastodon.thenewoil.org/@thenewoil/1… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “⌗FBI Hackers Say They Won’t Publish Massive Trove of FBI Employee Data 404media․co/fbi-hackers-s…”
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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 29/09/2026
mastodon.thenewoil.org/@thenewoil/1… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “Pay for your ⌗Tuta subscription via the ⌗Google ⌗PlayStore! tuta․com/blog/tuta-supports-…”
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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 24/09/2026
mastodon.thenewoil.org/@thenewoil/1… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “⌗Muse, ⌗Meta ’s extraordinarily privileged ⌗AI assistant, has a serious 0-day arstechnica․c…”
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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 22/09/2026
mastodon.thenewoil.org/@thenewoil/1… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “⌗FBI, ⌗CoastGuard boarded hacked ⌗oil tankers heading toward US coast techcrunch․com/2026/…”
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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 17/09/2026
mastodon.thenewoil.org/@thenewoil/1… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “Hackers hijack ⌗HBOMax ⌗Reddit account to push ⌗malware in ⌗ClickFix ads bleepingc…”
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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 15/09/2026
mastodon.thenewoil.org/@thenewoil/1… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “⌗Meta Sued Over Training Data for Its ⌗AI and Face-Recognition Systems wired․com/story/meta-…”
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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 14/09/2026
www.thisweekinprivacy.net/episodes/… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “Apple's new watches are always listening with their new Live Rewind feature, GrapheneOS plans to ov…”
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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 10/09/2026
mastodon.thenewoil.org/@thenewoil/1… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “Attackers conceal ⌗phishing lures using invisible ⌗Unicode characters bleepingcomputer․com…”
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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 08/09/2026
mastodon.thenewoil.org/@thenewoil/1… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “Confused about which ⌗VPN is right, US senator asks the ⌗NSA for guidance arstechnica․com/…”
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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 07/09/2026
www.thisweekinprivacy.net/episodes/… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “The GrapheneOS team has discovered that the Pixel 11 devices appear to have a key security feature …”
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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 03/09/2026
mastodon.thenewoil.org/@thenewoil/1… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “⌗Broadcom pledges to lock down ⌗OpenSource ⌗Python, ⌗Java libraries theregister․com/vi…”
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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 01/09/2026
mastodon.thenewoil.org/@thenewoil/1… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “More Americans oppose police license plate cameras than support them: survey techcrunch․com/2026/0…”
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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 31/08/2026
www.thisweekinprivacy.net/episodes/… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “X․com has sent a cease and desist letter to Nitter, the privacy focused frontend for Twitter, deman…”
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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 28/08/2026
mastodon.thenewoil.org/@thenewoil/1… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “⌗X sends cease-and-desist to open source project ⌗Nitter over alleged scraping techcrunch․co…”
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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 24/08/2026
www.thisweekinprivacy.net/episodes/… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “Microsoft’s Copilot had a one-click vulnerability that let attackers quietly exfiltrate data, no us…”
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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 20/08/2026
mastodon.thenewoil.org/@thenewoil/1… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “⌗PokémonCenter ⌗DataBreach exposes customer info, cancels some orders bleepingcomputer․com/n…”
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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 18/08/2026
mastodon.thenewoil.org/@thenewoil/1… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “⌗Google Announced the ⌗Pixel11 With Their New ⌗TitanM3 'Quantum-Safe' Secure Boot privac…”
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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 17/08/2026
www.thisweekinprivacy.net/episodes/… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “Google has announced it's new chip the Tensor G6 which brings serious security upgrades to the new …”
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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 14/08/2026
www.thisweekinprivacy.net/episodes/… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “Researchers have discovered a host of issue's with Apple's iCloud Private Relay, namely one that al…”
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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 13/08/2026
mastodon.thenewoil.org/@thenewoil/1… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “⌗BdThemes plugins supply-chain hack creates rogue ⌗WordPress admins bleepingcomputer․com/new…”
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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 11/08/2026
mastodon.thenewoil.org/@thenewoil/1… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “Chinese ⌗AI model ⌗Kimi escaped its ⌗cybersecurity testing environment, researchers say…”
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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 10/08/2026
www.thisweekinprivacy.net/episodes/… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “An activist has been charged with a felony for providing a 'duress code' which wiped his GrapheneOS…”
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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 07/08/2026
www.thisweekinprivacy.net/episodes/… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “Mullvad's Co-owner Daniel Berntsson has made a large political donation from Mullvad's profits, lea…”
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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 06/08/2026
mastodon.thenewoil.org/@thenewoil/1… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “The Youth ⌗AI ⌗Privacy Act’s Privacy Paradox eff․org/deeplinks/2026/08/youth-ai-privacy-ac…”
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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 04/08/2026
mastodon.thenewoil.org/@thenewoil/1… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “The ⌗CHATBOTAct Forces One Parenting Model On Every Family eff․org/deeplinks/2026/07/chatbot-a…”
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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 03/08/2026
www.thisweekinprivacy.net/episodes/… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “Microsoft just fixed a record number of vulnerabilities this patch Tuesday, but a 0 day exploit dro…”
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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 03/08/2026
mastodon.thenewoil.org/@thenewoil/1… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “⌗Chrome may get faster updates with no restart required arstechnica․com/ai/2026/07/chrome-may-ge…”
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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 03/08/2026
www.thisweekinprivacy.net/episodes/… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “A security researcher has discovered that the iOS App Store saves all keystrokes and ties it to you…”
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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 31/07/2026
www.thisweekinprivacy.net/episodes/… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “CalyxOS is officially back with a stable release, A researcher has discovered Apple's Hide My Email ...”
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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 30/07/2026
mastodon.thenewoil.org/@thenewoil/1… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “# Arista patches # VeloCloud # Orchestrator zero-day exploited in attacks www. b...”
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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 28/07/2026
mastodon.thenewoil.org/@thenewoil/1… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “US accuses American of allegedly wiping his phone using a ‘duress’ password during border search ...”
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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 30/06/2026
mastodon.thenewoil.org/@thenewoil/1… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “Lawmakers Must Act Now to Prevent Armed # Police Drones www. eff.org/deeplinks/2026/0...”
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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 29/06/2026
www.thisweekinprivacy.net/episodes/… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “It's a quiet news week, so we're diving into questions from the community and discussing a few less ...”
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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 25/06/2026
mastodon.thenewoil.org/@thenewoil/1… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “# WhatsApp # phishing attack uses fake business docs to hack PCs www. bleepingcompu...”
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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 23/06/2026
mastodon.thenewoil.org/@thenewoil/1… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “# Amazon Retaliated Against Workers Who Supported Regulating Data Centers, Complaint Says https...”
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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 22/06/2026
www.thisweekinprivacy.net/episodes/… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “Android 17 has officially launched and GrapheneOS has just announced an experimental build with a st...”
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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 18/06/2026
mastodon.thenewoil.org/@thenewoil/1… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “# UK ’s # SocialMediaBan for children: the # privacy problems # Australia already exposed ...”
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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 16/06/2026
mastodon.thenewoil.org/@thenewoil/1… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “Over 73,000 French govt employees affected in # Tchap messenger breach www. bleepingc...”
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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 15/06/2026
www.thisweekinprivacy.net/episodes/… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “Automated license readers by Flock have tied a person who was miles away to a violent crime effectiv...”
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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 11/06/2026
mastodon.thenewoil.org/@thenewoil/1… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “New # ShaiHulud attack trojanizes 19 # science -focused # PyPI packages www. ble...”
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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 09/06/2026
mastodon.thenewoil.org/@thenewoil/1… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “# ICE ’s Plan to Let # Cops Around the Country Scan Faces to Verify # Immigration Status h...”
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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 08/06/2026
www.thisweekinprivacy.net/episodes/… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “GTA V cheat service Atlas Menu just got hacked exposing thousands of gamers as cheaters, Microsoft i...”
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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 04/06/2026
mastodon.thenewoil.org/@thenewoil/1… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “# CISA flags two-year-old # Oracle flaw as actively exploited in attacks www. bleep...”
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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 02/06/2026
mastodon.thenewoil.org/@thenewoil/1… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “# Microsoft under fire for threatening security researcher with criminal investigation https://...”
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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 01/06/2026
www.thisweekinprivacy.net/episodes/… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “GrapheneOS has announced the public release for it's speech synthesis service, which is open source ...”
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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 28/05/2026
mastodon.thenewoil.org/@thenewoil/1… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “Everyone is navigating # AI security in real time — even # Google https:// techcrunch.com/...”
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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 26/05/2026
mastodon.thenewoil.org/@thenewoil/1… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “Designing # Firefox for the future https:// blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/ne w-firefox-design/...”
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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 25/05/2026
www.thisweekinprivacy.net/episodes/… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “Google has announced Android XR it's new smart glasses platform, we'll dive into why this is such a ...”
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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 21/05/2026
mastodon.thenewoil.org/@thenewoil/1… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “# 7Eleven confirms # DataBreach claimed by the # ShinyHunters gang www. bleeping...”
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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 19/05/2026
mastodon.thenewoil.org/@thenewoil/1… 🔐 This Week in Privacy from @privacyguides.org: “# FunnelBuilder # WordPress plugin bug exploited to steal credit cards www. bleepin...”
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