November 03, 2025

Removing Old Accounts

1 hour 2 minutes

Today we’ll wrap up my series of tips for enumerating all your old online accounts and deciding whether to delete them or just dumb down the personal data they have on you. There are several things to consider – we’ll go through them all!

In other news: a study ranks the most private AI chatbots; LinkedIn is set to use your personal data to train their AI; ChatGPT has released an AI browser; new phishing scam for password manager creds; Gmail did not leak 183M passwords; man discovers his robot vacuum sharing lots of personal data; more info on Cellebrite’s mobile hacking abilities; Flock expanded its surveillance with Ring and drones; and group finds that half of our satellite communications are not encrypted.

Article Links

Which Generative AI Is Most Privacy-Respecting? https://www.obscureiq.com/which-generative-ai-is-most-privacy-respecting/

LinkedIn will use your data to train AI – how to opt out https://proton.me/blog/linkedin-ai-training

Chatgpt Atlas Browser https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/10/22/chatgpt-atlas-browser/

Phishing scam uses fake death notices to trick LastPass users https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/10/phishing-scam-uses-fake-death-notices-to-trick-lastpass-users

No, Gmail has not suffered a massive 183 million passwords breach https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/no-gmail-has-not-suffered-a-massive-183-million-passwords-breach-but-you-should-still-look-after-your-data

Man Alarmed to Discover His Smart Vacuum Was Broadcasting a Secret Map of His House https://futurism.com/robots-and-machines/robot-vacuum-broadcasting

Someone Snuck Into a Cellebrite Microsoft Teams Call and Leaked Phone Unlocking Details https://www.404media.co/someone-snuck-into-a-cellebrite-microsoft-teams-call-and-leaked-phone-unlocking-details/

Ring cameras are about to get increasingly chummy with law enforcement https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/10/ring-cameras-are-about-to-get-increasingly-chummy-with-law-enforcement/

Exclusive: Flock Safety paid over $300 million for 17-month-old drone startup Aerodome https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/23/flock-safety-paid-over-300-million-for-17-month-old-drone-startup-aerodome/

Leak From the Sky: It Turns Out a Lot of Satellite Data Is Unencrypted” https://www.pcmag.com/news/leak-from-the-sky-it-turns-out-a-lot-of-satellite-data-is-unencrypted

Tip of the Week: https://firewallsdontstopdragons.com/removing-old-accounts/

Further Info

Data Diet series: https://firewallsdontstopdragons.com/data-diet-introduction/

Backing up 2FA seed codes: https://firewallsdontstopdragons.com/how-to-backup-2fa-seed-codes/

Using email aliases: https://firewallsdontstopdragons.com/how-to-use-email-aliases-part-1/

Claudito: https://github.com/micahflee/claudito

LM Studio: https://lmstudio.ai/

Dark Wire book: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/joseph-cox/dark-wire/9781541702691/

My book: https://fdsd.me/book

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Table of Contents

0:00:07: Intro

0:00:27: News briefs

0:01:49: News preview

0:03:53: Which AI Is Most Privacy-Respecting?

0:09:21: LinkedIn will use your data to train AI

0:14:23: ChatGPT’s new Altas browser

0:21:46: Phishing scam uses fake death notices

0:25:32: Gmail has NOT suffered a massive password breach

0:27:57: Man finds smart vacuum sending maps of home

0:33:41: More Cellebrite capability details leak

0:38:28: Flock inks deal with Ring cameras

0:42:57: Flock Safety buys drone company

0:46:52: Half of satellite comms are unencrypted

0:51:26: Tip of the Week

1:00:01: Patron podcast preview

1:00:18: Looking ahead

1:01:39: New patron promotion coming?

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