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Earlier sources: Privacy
This security thread follows privacy through original research, public projects, and source reports. Read the evidence below to see which developments are represented in SYMTRI’s archive.
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Open in the map ↗115 classified signals in the fourteen-day window. These counts include signals awaiting readable evidence.
Earlier sources
Up to ten sources with readable evidence, ordered by their feed timestamp. These archive sources can be older than the live fourteen-day window. This list is a sample, not a measure of total activity. Dates distinguish paper publication, repository creation, model/dataset activity, Hacker News posts, and KEV catalog additions. “First archived” records when SYMTRI first stored the signal.
- GitHub · Repository created · First archived
CIS-C0/RFSentinel ↗
A free, open-source Android app that listens to Bluetooth LE advertisements and WiFi beacons around you and flags police and surveillance equipment: body cameras, Flock and other plate-reader cameras, patrol-vehicle gear, trackers following you, Remote ID drones and camera glasses. It also watches the cell network for fake-tower (IMSI catcher) sign
- GitHub · Repository created · First archived
nezabudkinvo/linux-ai-agent-sandbox ↗
Keep AI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, any CLI) out of your private files on Linux: the agent runs as its own user, the kernel enforces per-folder open / read-only / closed rules.
- GitHub · Repository created · First archived
saadnahid7/VirtualNet ↗
Open-source Xposed module: choose per app whether it sees Wi-Fi, mobile data, or both. Android 9+. By DroidRooter.
- Hacker News · Posted on Hacker News · First archived
Car's data privacy problems are worse than you think ↗
Hacker News discussion.
- GitHub · Repository created · First archived
omlahore/RemoveMacAI ↗
Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back. One command, fully reversible.
- Hacker News · Posted on Hacker News · First archived
A Privacy Analysis of Web and Mobile Conversational AI Agents [pdf] ↗
Hacker News discussion.
- OpenAlex · Published · First archived
Federated ADMM-IRLS: A privacy-preserving framework for high-dimensional multicenter genomic analysis with binary outcomes ↗
Many clinically relevant multicenter genomic studies involve binary outcomes and high-dimensional data distributed across multiple institutions. However, standard sparse logistic regression (LR) methods typically require centralized access to patient-level data, which is often infeasible under privacy constraints. To address this limitation, a privacy-preserving federated ADMM-IRLS framework is proposed for sparse LR. In the proposed approach, local iteratively reweighted least squares updates are combined with ADMM-based global consensus and soft-thresholding, so that distributed coefficient…
- Hacker News · Posted on Hacker News · First archived
Update: 2run.tools – Privacy first, no-upload, no-server, image-pdf tools ↗
Hacker News discussion.
- arXiv · Published · First archived
The Privacy Fallacy of Crowdsourced Fine-Tuning: Extracting Proprietary Data via Topic-Based Poisoning ↗
Supervised fine-tuning (SFT) is widely used to adapt large language models to downstream tasks. Crowdsourcing user conversations is an established approach to collecting SFT data at scale while reducing the need for costly manual annotation. However, it also allows untrusted users to contribute data to the fine-tuning pipeline. We investigate an underexplored privacy risk arising from this setting: can a malicious user poison a small fraction of the crowdsourced data to amplify extraction of previously unseen instructions contributed by other users? We show that this is possible using only bla…
- Hacker News · Posted on Hacker News · First archived
Haven: One Privacy App. Zero Compromise ↗
Hacker News discussion.
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How to assess evidence about Privacy
Check each original source for its methods, release status, limitations, and supporting data. A repository announcement, a preprint, and a published study provide different kinds of evidence. SYMTRI’s subject classification helps discovery; it does not independently validate the source’s claims.
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