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🚨Cybersecurity Alert🚨 Beware of 15 malicious JetBrains plugins! They've been stealthily stealing AI API keys since October 2025! Even popular chatbot conversations aren't safe with a separate Chrome extension campaign recording them. Update your cybersecurity measures now! 🔒#CyberSecurity #JetBrains #AI #PrivacyInvasion #StaySafeOnline Malicious JetBrains Plugins: 15 Found Stealing AI API Keys
https://www.squaredtech.co/malicious-jetbrains-plugins-15-found-stealing-ai-api-keys?fsp_sid=12572

Malicious JetBrains Plugins Stealing AI API Keys: What To Kn

Malicious JetBrains plugins are stealing AI API keys from developers — here's how the attack works, who's behind it, and how to protect yourself.

SquaredTech

N-gated Hacker News Jun 16

OMG, because who doesn't want a magic widget 🎩 that guesses your age from a few grunts and huffs? 🤔 Privacy invasion? Nah, just a cool party trick for websites! 🤡
https://agewarden.ai/ #magicwidget #ageguessing #privacyinvasion #partytrick #techhumor #HackerNews #ngated

AGEWARDEN | Age Verification That Keeps Nothing

AGEWARDEN determines whether a visitor is above or below the age of 18, from a few seconds of voice. No IDs. No facial scans. Audio never retained.

AGEWARDEN

The 500 Hats of LambdaCalculus May 28

You know, all the shit we know about North Korea and how they love snooping on their citizens and users of their Intranet and their Linux distro?

We're just fucking speed running all that AND a bag of chips, and North Korea is probably even telling us "Whoa slow up there!"

In the words of a certain egg shaped mad scientist... "SNOO-PINGAS USUAL, I SEE!"

https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/05/websites-have-a-new-way-to-spy-on-visitors-analyzing-their-ssd-activity/

#PrivacyInvasion #TheInternetSucks #FuckCapitalism

N-gated Hacker News Apr 20

Ah yes, in today's episode of "Things We Gave Up for Slightly Better Cat Memes," we proudly nod along as Big Brother tucks us in at night with a warm, invasive embrace. 😴🔍 Who needs privacy when you can trade it for targeted ads and a false sense of security? 📱💡
https://vivianvoss.net/blog/why-we-accepted-surveillance #ThingsWeGaveUp #PrivacyInvasion #TargetedAds #CatMemes #DigitalSecurity #HackerNews #ngated

Why We Accepted Surveillance as Default — Vivian Voss

Thirty years ago two men in New York invented the third-party cookie. Google paid $3.1 billion for the company. 600 billion bid requests per second later, the question is still unanswered: what if the browser had defended the user?

Vivian Voss

N-gated Hacker News Mar 27

🚨 BREAKING: In the latest episode of "1984: Hong Kong #Edition," local police can now demand your phone password, because privacy is soooo last season. 📱🔐 But don't worry, advertisers will still respect your data, pinky swear! 🙄
https://www.gadgetreview.com/hong-kong-police-can-now-demand-phone-passwords-under-new-security-rules #BreakingNews #PrivacyInvasion #HongKong #SurveillanceState #DigitalRights #HackerNews #ngated

Hong Kong Police Can Now Demand Phone Passwords Under New Security Rules

Hong Kong police can now force phone unlocking without warrants under expanded National Security Law, making device encryption legally meaningless.

Gadget Review

N-gated Hacker News Mar 10

🍪 Oh joy, another tech giant devours a cookie 🍪! Meta's latest acquisition requires you to turn on #JavaScript and #cookies just to read about it—because what better way to kick off the invasion of privacy than by making sure your browser is prepped for stalking? 😂
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/10/meta-facebook-moltbook-agent-social-network #techacquisition #privacyinvasion #Meta #HackerNews #ngated