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258.5 deep dive. We can see you. The IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update for the week ending September 2nd. 2025
Modern technology introduces profound privacy and security challenges. Wi-Fi and Bluetooth devices constantly broadcast identifiers like SSIDs, MAC addresses, and timestamps, which services such as Wigle.net and major tech companies exploit to triangulate precise locations. Users can mitigate exposure by appending _nomap to SSIDs, though protections remain incomplete, especially against companies like Microsoft that use more complex opt-out processes.
At the global scale, state-sponsored hacking represents an even larger threat. A Chinese government-backed campaign has infiltrated critical…
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