Yesterday I came across a tweet from Lukasz Olejnik, sharing his work on privacy assessment in web standards – and data leakage via the W3C Ambient Light Sensor API in particular.

TLDR; It deals with a sort of side channel attack: A list of domains is...

In this post I'll attempt to give a brief, but thorough introduction to privacy. This ambitious task is motivated in part by the staggering amount of people I've dealt with that lack a proper understanding of the subject – whether they be politicians,...