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Episode 287.5. Deep Dive. Taxing. The AI, Privacy, and Security Weekly Update for the Week ending April 14th 2026
Cybersecurity is entering an “invisibility crisis,” where threats are no longer loud, external attacks but subtle abuses of normal system behavior. Techniques like SockStress exploit TCP assumptions to drain resources, residential proxy networks turn everyday users into unwitting infrastructure, and fake VPNs weaponize trust to exfiltrate data. Even ransomware response processes are being hijacked, transforming incident response into an attack surface. At the same time, transparency mechanisms are failing—Google, Meta, and Microsoft frequently ignore user opt-outs—highlighting a systemic…
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