SN 1069: You can't hide from LLMs - Was Your Smart TV a Stealth Proxy?
Security Now (Audio)
Leo Laporte
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2026
⏱️ 164 minutes
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Summary
Think your online alias keeps you safe? This episode reveals how advanced language models are making it trivial to de-anonymize users at scale, challenging everything we thought we knew about internet privacy.
- Anthropic & Mozilla improve Firefox's security.
- Apple & Google begin testing cross-platform RCS encryption.
- Ubuntu's SUDO starts echoing asterisks.
- Inviting a web proxy into your home.
- Apple devices cleared by Germany for NATO's use.
- A serious remote takeover of OpenClaw.
- TokTok won't encrypt messaging for visibility.
- Microsoft bans the term "Microslop" on Discord.
- Lot's of great listener feedback.
- LLMs could make Orwell's 1984 seem optimistic.
Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1069-Notes.pdf
Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for security now. Steve Gibson is here. We've got a lot of really interesting conversations, |
| 0:06.7 | how Mozilla used Claude to improve its security. While you might be want to be extra careful about |
| 0:14.2 | open claw, wow, it opens a great big hole into your network with a remote takeover. |
| 0:21.7 | And we're going to talk about a new capability for LLMs that might scare you just a little bit. |
| 0:28.5 | All of that coming up next on Security Now. |
| 0:33.9 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:35.7 | From people you trust. |
| 0:38.2 | This is Twitter. |
| 0:43.3 | This is Security Now with Steve Gibson, episode 10, 1969, recorded Tuesday, March 10th, 2026. |
| 0:52.0 | You Can't Hide from LLMs. It's time for security now. Oh, yes, you wait all week for |
| 0:59.5 | Tuesday. And I'm glad to be back. Steve is back and we're ready to talk security with this guy |
| 1:05.2 | right here, Steve Gibson of GRC. Hey, Steve, it's good to see you. We had such fun in Florida and Zero Trust World. |
| 1:12.7 | It was so fun to get to spend some time with you and Lori and have a couple of dinners |
| 1:17.1 | together and stuff. |
| 1:18.0 | Meet some of our listeners. |
| 1:20.4 | That was fun too. |
| 1:21.6 | We met some really interesting people. |
| 1:24.6 | I don't know if I'm at liberty to divulge some of these people, pretty high up people. I don't know if I'm at liberty to divulge some of these people pretty high up |
| 1:31.1 | people. It's not really a selfie line, is it? If somebody else is taking the picture? It's kind of a |
| 1:37.2 | selfie line. Yeah, we took about, I don't know, 50, 60, maybe 100 pictures. It went on for an hour |
| 1:42.3 | and a half and everybody talked to everybody. |
| 1:45.7 | I got to sign some spin right CDs and floppy discs. |
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