SN 1032: Pervasive Web Fingerprinting - How Websites Tracks You Despite Cookie Blocks

• Let's Encrypt drops its long-running email notifications.
• Microsoft's new "Unexpected Restart Experience".
• Microsoft's response to last year's massive CrowdStrike outage.
• Windows 10's extended service updates will sort of be free.
• Russia-sold iPhones MUST include the RuStore app.
• Lyon, in France, says bye-bye to Windows. Hello to Linux.
• The US Gov gets more serious about memory-safe languages.
• A new unbelievable AI malware scanner evaSion technique.
• A new pair of Cisco 9.8 and 10.0 vulnerabilities.
• The current state of post-Elon government cybersecurity.
• PNGv3, Swift on Android, and the Samsung email purge.
• Andy Weir's "Hail Mary" movie trailer.
• And a close look at the pervasiveness of web browser tracking fingerprinting.

Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/sn-1032-notes.pdf

Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte

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