SN 1069: You can’t hide from LLMs - Was Your Smart TV a Stealth Proxy?

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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