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Contrary to popular belief, multi-hop VPNs bring limited security benefit, if any. portal.pcwrt.com/blog/2026/0…
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‼️🚨 ALARMING: Google now treats privacy as suspicious behavior by default. Users of GrapheneOS, CalyxOS, /e/OS, and other deGoogled Android phones are being locked out of millions of websites unless they install the exact Google Play Services software they deliberately removed.
GrapheneOS is recommended by the EFF and used by journalists, lawyers, and activists in high-risk environments. The audience most likely to read Google's data practices and refuse its terms is now flagged as fraudulent for that exact decision.
What happened?:
▪️ Google announced "Cloud Fraud Defense" at Cloud Next on April 22-23, 2026, branding it "the next evolution of reCAPTCHA." Existing reCAPTCHA customers were auto-migrated.
▪️ When the system flags traffic as suspicious, the old click-the-bus puzzle is gone. Users get a QR code instead.
▪️ Scanning the QR code requires Google Play Services running on the device. Internet Archive snapshots show this requirement has been live since at least October 2025, silently rolled out for 7 months before anyone noticed.
▪️ No Play Services = no QR scan = locked out.
The bigger picture:
▪️ Google already tried this in 2023. It was called Web Environment Integrity (WEI), and it would have let Google decide which devices were "real enough" to access the web. Standards bodies and the public pushed back hard, and Google killed it. Three years later, the same idea is back, just hidden behind a QR code instead of a browser feature.
▪️ reCAPTCHA runs on millions of websites. Every developer who keeps using it is now, by default, telling deGoogled Android users they're not welcome...
The risks of saving passwords...in Microsoft edge, maybe other systems too. Big names may be proud of what they do, but it doesn't mean they understand.
‼️🚨 Microsoft calls this "intended behaviour," so here we go.
How to dump the credentials of every user stored in Microsoft Edge:
1. Open Edge. Don't browse anywhere, just open it.
2. Flip to Task Manager, find Edge, expand the task.
3. Highlight the "browser" sub-task, right-click, and choose "Create Memory Dump."
4. Open the dump file and look for credentials.
The logged-in Windows user can dump every stored Edge credential with no additional rights. Which means any malware that user executes has those credentials for the asking.
Thanks to Rob VandenBrink at SANS: isc.sans.edu/diary/32954
Must read if you are privacy concerned. Running your VPN on a router helps prevent public IP address leaks via WebRTC, STUN etc.
With VPN split-tunneling, you can get access to contents from two separate geographical areas without changing your network configuration.
However, only one branch is tunneled through the VPN. Until now.
The PCWRT router supports dual VPN split-tunneling portal.pcwrt.com/blog/2026/0…
A customer asked how long we support our routers. We keep updating our routers as long as they are supportable. Our first router, the TORONTO-N, released in 2015, still gets updates today.
We still have a few customers using it :)
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The White House App has OneSignal's full GPS pipeline compiled in, polling your location every 4.5 minutes, syncing your exact coordinates to a third party server.
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The White House App saves the user’s exact location to a remote server every 4.5 minutes with no way to disable this feature.
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Thomas-Johnson told The Intercept that, “we need to think very hard about what resistance looks like under these conditions…where government and Big Tech know so much about us, can track us, can imprison, can destroy us in a variety of ways.”
Google sent personal and financial information of student journalist to ICE techcrunch.com/2026/02/10/go…
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THIS IS NOT A DRILL: The Dutch authorities, without a warrant, just seized one of our VPN servers saying they'll give it back after they "fully analyze it".
Windscribe uses RAM disk servers so the only thing the authorities will find is a stock Ubuntu install. The bigger worry is the unredacted Epstein files we had on there...
VPN isn't just fear mongering. Otherwise, why would countries block VPNs? Yes, you shift your trust from ISP to VPN. But with a reputable VPN service that's a good shift. It's an effective tool against mass surveillance.
Another use of VPN is to bypass geo-fencing and censorship
Use a VPN if you trust the VPN more than your ISP.
Or run a windscribe tunnel inside a proton tunnel, then windscribe knows all your web activities but seeing you coming from a proton IP address. Of course, use an open source client instead of their apps.
Network-wide ad blocking with router - improve privacy and SAVE DATA. youtu.be/9V0w_pApz-8?si=JVME… via @YouTube