A rare and genuine win against age verification with California following Colorado in exempting Linux and other open source operating systems from its Digital Age Assurance Act, directly because of community pressure. Plus AI cameras on tens of thousands of school buses being quietly repurposed for police access, a bipartisan amendment that could end nationwide automatic license plate reader programs, the open source supply chain under unprecedented attack, and a Trump Mobile data leak.

In this episode:

Highlight: Age verification laws are coming for everyone except open source
BusPatrol AI school bus cameras now angling for police access
Bipartisan amendment to end nationwide police license plate tracking
Defense Bulletin: data breaches at Trump Mobile, 7-Eleven, Charter, plus a major GitHub/TanStack supply chain compromise
Threats: open source code poisoned at unprecedented scale, AI agents imperiled by critical vulnerability, Defender zero-days, Apex One zero-day, Linux kernel privilege escalation, Mullvad on exit-IP fingerprinting, Texas AG sues Meta over WhatsApp encryption
FOSS+ Updates: Tails 7.8, Firefox's new design, Tuta improvements, AltStore on-device sideloading, Vivaldi 8.0, Linux Mint / Rhino Linux / MX Linux / AlmaLinux updates

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⏱️ TIMESTAMPS

(00:00) - WELCOME TO SURVEILLANCE REPORT
(00:52) - HIGHLIGHT: CALIFORNIA & COLORADO EXEMPT LINUX
(06:02) - THINK OF THE CHILDREN BUS SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM
(10:22) - SUPPORT THE PODCAST
(11:22) - LEFT AND RIGHT UNITE AGAINST ALPR
(14:34) - DEFENSE BULLETIN: DATA BREACHES
(18:34) - DEFENSE BULLETIN: THREATS
(26:52) - DEFENSE BULLETIN: FOSS+

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