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SN 1032: Pervasive Web Fingerprinting - How Websites Tracks You Despite Cookie Blocks

Security Now (Audio)

Leo Laporte

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

4.62.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2025

⏱️ 178 minutes

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Summary

• Let's Encrypt drops its long-running email notifications.
• Microsoft's new "Unexpected Restart Experience".
• Microsoft's response to last year's massive CrowdStrike outage.
• Windows 10's extended service updates will sort of be free.
• Russia-sold iPhones MUST include the RuStore app.
• Lyon, in France, says bye-bye to Windows. Hello to Linux.
• The US Gov gets more serious about memory-safe languages.
• A new unbelievable AI malware scanner evaSion technique.
• A new pair of Cisco 9.8 and 10.0 vulnerabilities.
• The current state of post-Elon government cybersecurity.
• PNGv3, Swift on Android, and the Samsung email purge.
• Andy Weir's "Hail Mary" movie trailer.
• And a close look at the pervasiveness of web browser tracking fingerprinting.

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/sn-1032-notes.pdf

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Transcript

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0:00.0

It's time for security. Now, Steve Gibson is here. We have some very interesting things to talk about.

0:06.6

Will Apple agree to Russia's demand that they add the Russian store?

0:12.6

Lyon, France says goodbye to Windows, hello to Linux, and then we'll talk about how hard it is to hide your identity on the Internet.

0:20.2

Web fingerprinting the topic security

0:23.2

now is next podcasts you love from people you trust this is twit this is security now is steve gipson episode one thousand thirty two This is Security Now with Steve Gibson, episode 132, recorded Tuesday, July 1st, 2025, pervasive web fingerprinting.

0:48.5

It's time for security now. You wait all week for Tuesday, and now it's here. Yes yes time to find out what's going on in the world

0:56.5

of security and privacy and it's all thanks to this guy right here steve gibson the uh man in charge grc

1:04.4

com hi steve hey leo great to be with you again for what happened to June. Who?

1:12.3

Uh, July 1st.

1:14.0

What happened to the year?

1:14.6

Yeah.

1:15.7

We're halfway through.

1:16.7

How did that happen?

1:17.0

Yeah.

1:17.6

Wow. Yeah.

1:18.1

Well, once upon a time, you would forget to change the date that you put on your checks

1:25.0

when whenever they get checked.

1:26.6

What's a check, Steve i know i know it's uh

1:30.6

those are i have a checkbook but i very rarely need to use it yeah and we used a joke that it would

1:36.1

like it would take until march right for someone to stop writing 20 like the 20 year yeah 12 or something

1:43.9

it's been a while.

1:44.7

Exactly.

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