Security Now with Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

Mar 10th 2026

Security Now 1069

You can’t hide from LLMs

Was Your Smart TV a Stealth Proxy?

Records live every Tuesday at 4:30pm Eastern / 1:30pm Pacific / 21:30 UTC.
Category: Help & How To

Think your online alias keeps you safe? This episode reveals how advanced language models are making it trivial to de-anonymize users at scale, challenging everything we thought we knew about internet privacy.

  • Anthropic & Mozilla improve Firefox's security.
  • Apple & Google begin testing cross-platform RCS encryption.
  • Ubuntu's SUDO starts echoing asterisks.
  • Inviting a web proxy into your home.
  • Apple devices cleared by Germany for NATO's use.
  • A serious remote takeover of OpenClaw.
  • TokTok won't encrypt messaging for visibility.
  • Microsoft bans the term "Microslop" on Discord.
  • Lot's of great listener feedback.
  • LLMs could make Orwell's 1984 seem optimistic.

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1069-Notes.pdf

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