The Structural Impossibility of Privacy Care
The question is not why people do not care about privacy. The question is why we keep insisting the problem is individual indifference when the evidence points to structural design.
Encryption
Chat Control 1.0 Passes After Majority Voted No
On July 9, 2026, the European Parliament voted on Chat Control 1.0. More MEPs opposed it than supported it. The regulation passed. The mechanism that allowed this outcome is procedural, repeatable, and instructive.
Onion Mail’s Hidden Privacy Features: How Your Inbox Protects You Automatically
Most people judge an email service by what they can see: the inbox, the buttons, the way a message looks when it lands. But the part of an email platform that actually protects your privacy is usually the part you never notice. It works quietly in the background, before a message is ever shown to … Read more
GitHub Breach: How a Malicious VS Code Extension Exposed 3,800 Internal Repositories
GitHub confirmed on May 20, 2026 that a malicious VS Code extension on an employee device led to the exfiltration of roughly 3,800 internal repositories. The breach reveals less about one compromised endpoint than about the structural costs of platform centralization.
BitLocker Bypass Shows Encryption Without Architecture Fails
On May 12, 2026, a researcher published YellowKey, a Windows Recovery Environment bypass allowing physical-access attackers to unlock BitLocker-protected drives on Windows 11 systems. The vulnerability exposes the difference between cryptographic strength and systemic trust architecture.
Mozilla Submission Exposes Predictable Cycle of Surveillance Expansion
On May 15, Mozilla submitted a response to a UK government consultation that proposes age-restricting VPNs. The submission argues that such measures address symptoms rather than root causes of online harm.
Canada’s Bill C-22 Metadata Retention: A Second-Generation Playbook
Bill C-22, introduced to Canadian Parliament in March 2026, mandates metadata retention for up to one year and grants the Minister of Public Safety broad power to compel technical capabilities from electronic service providers – including encryption circumvention.
The End of Optional Encryption: What Meta and TikTok Just Told Us
Meta ended optional end-to-end encryption on Instagram DMs on May 8, 2026. TikTok confirmed in March it will never offer it. The Take It Down Act takes effect May 19. These three facts are connected, and the connection matters more than any single one of them. What just happened On May 8, 2026, Meta removed … Read more
Post-Quantum Cryptography: We’ve Already Put It in Your Hands
Why we’re talking about ML-KEM and ML-DSA only now, when our PQCServer platform has been live and open source for two months. The context On May 5, 2026, Proton Mail announced support for post-quantum cryptography for emails between Proton users. It’s an important move and deserves recognition: the email industry needed to see a mainstream … Read more