DecryptAds — From Hidden Flows to Public Insight

This Tool Unmasks the Shadowy World of Ads that Track Your Location

It's usually very difficult to investigate the advertising industry. A new tool called DecryptAds aims to make it much easier with a massive dataset anyone can query.

Data dredging

Data dredging, also known as data snooping or p-hacking, is the misuse of data analysis to find patterns in data that can be presented as statistically significant, thus dramatically increasing and understating the risk of false positives. This is done by performing many statistical tests on the data and only reporting those that come back with significant results. Thus data dredging is also often a misused or misapplied form of data mining.

The $11 Billion Marketplace Enabling the Crypto Scam Economy

Deepfake scam services. Victim data. Electrified shackles for human trafficking. Crypto tracing firm Elliptic found all were available for sale on an online marketplace linked to Cambodia’s ruling family.

did-method-plc/did-method-plc

Public Ledger of Credentials: a cryptographic, strongly-consistent, and recoverable DID method

Web Crypto’s SubtleCrypto: A Masterclass in Developer Hostility and How It Strangles the Modern Web

Not Subtle, Just Sabotage — An API Against the Web

Download pumping: New npm deception technique for supply chain attacks

Learn how attackers exploit automated bot traffic as part of software supply chain attacks to artificially inflate download counters and mask malicious payloads as legitimate.

Cognition | Agent Trace: Capturing the Context Graph of Code

We’re excited to join in Cursor, Cloudflare, Vercel, git-ai, OpenCode and others in support of [Agent Trace](https://agent-trace.dev/). As described in the spec, Agent Trace is an open, vendor-neutral spec for recording AI contributions alongside human authorship in version-controlled codebases.

Tools from EFF's Tech Team

EFF’s team of technologists and computer scientists engineers solutions to the problems of sneaky tracking, inconsistent encryption, and more. Where users face threats to their privacy and security

Facebook snooped on users' Snapchat traffic in secret project, documents reveal | TechCrunch

A secret program called "Project Ghostbusters" saw Facebook devise a way to intercept and decrypt the encrypted network traffic of Snapchat users to study their behavior.

Updated: Data Breaches Caused by Leaks in 2024

We’re tracking data breaches that are most likely caused by leaked secrets and keeping this page up-to-date.

What Does Palantir Actually Do?

Palantir is often called a data broker, a data miner, or a giant database of personal information. In reality, it’s none of these—but even former employees struggle to explain it.

WTF is a Transparency Log? A Brief Primer. - warplog

Privy Blog | Privy and Stripe: Bringing crypto to everyone

We started Privy a little over three years ago to make it easy for any developer to build better products on crypto rails. Whether crypto is core to your app or simply a new layer of functionality, a good crypto product should just feel like a good product, period. By making crypto usable, we help make it useful for everyone.

Everyone knows your location

How I tracked myself down using leaked location data in the in-app ads, and what I found along the way.