Password manager software maker LastPass suffered a data breach last week, which understandably made their customers very nervous – and caused some people to question the decision to put all their passwords in one digital basket. In today’s show, I’ll explain why this particular breach was not a threat to anyone’s passwords and why you should still use a high quality password manager.

In other news: Former security chief blows the whistle on Twitter; major VPN providers are pulling out of India over surveillance law issues; a set of popular Chrome extensions caught committing click fraud; Google’s new Chrome extension restrictions threaten to hobble ad blockers; a father’s Google accounts are deleted over false AI-flagged CSAM; US Federal Trade Commission sues a data broker over lax protection of location data; EFF finds another data broker selling location data to law enforcement; Google launches bug bounty program for open source software projects; DuckDuckGo’s email privacy protection feature now available to all; Ohio judge rules that scanning students’ rooms before tests is illegal; a flight to Cabo is nearly grounded thanks to a passenger sending dick pics to other passengers, including one of the pilots.

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