SN 1015: Spatial-Domain Wireless Jamming - Firefox Privacy Policy, Signal Leaving Sweden?

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Leo Laporte

Cyber Crime, Malware, Technology, Encryption, Steve Gibson, Security, Hacking, Twit, Spyware, Leo Laporte

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🗓️ 4 March 2025

⏱️ 173 minutes

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Summary

Firefox amends their privacy policy -- the world melts down.
Signal threatens to leave Sweden.
Aftermath of the massive $1.5 billion Bybit ETH heist.
It turns out that it wasn't actually Bybit's fault.
"The Lazarus Bounty" monitoring and management site.
Mozilla's commitment to Manifest V2 (and the uBlock Origin).
What does the ACM's plea for memory-safe languages mean for developers?
What exactly are memory-safe languages?
Australia joins the Kaspersky ban.
Gmail plans to switch from SMS to QR code authentication.
A SpinRite success and some fun feedback.
An astonishing new technology for targeted radio jamming

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1015-Notes.pdf

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0:00.0	It's time for security now. Steve Gibson is here. We'll talk about Firefox's new privacy policy.
0:05.1	And while Steve is not concerned, a signal threatens to leave Sweden. Yeah, it's coming. I'm telling you.
0:13.0	Mozilla's commitment to manifest V2 and Ublock origin. This week, Chrome is pushing out V3.
0:20.4	And then we'll talk about a new way to jam radio signals, very specifically, an individual signal and a sea of signals.
0:29.4	It's actually a very cool technology.
0:31.4	That and more coming up next on security now.
0:36.2	Podcasts you love.
0:37.6	From people you trust.
0:40.3	This is Twitter.
0:45.6	This is Security Now with Steve Gibson, episode 115, recorded Tuesday, March 4th, 2025.
0:54.8	Spatial Domain Wireless Jamming.
0:58.1	It's time for security now.
0:59.9	Aren't you glad you, you should, I don't know what, you downloaded it, you're waiting, you're watching.
1:05.2	Aren't you glad?
1:06.1	You're glad.
1:07.1	We wait, all of us, until Tuesday comes around. Every week I see stories I go I can't I can't
1:13.9	wait till here what Steve thinks about this here he is the man of the hour Steve Gibson aren't you
1:19.0	aren't you glad you're out on your multi-mile run and you have something that will you could
1:25.5	they'll take your mind off the boredom of putting one foot in front of the other.
1:30.8	I have a different way of saying it. It will exercise your brain as you are exercising your legs.
1:35.7	Sometimes you need to be careful about, you know, gripping the wheel tightly, uh, not going off the road.
1:42.4	You used to sit on a ball, Leo, and we'd have to make sure you were centered over the ball.
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