Sen. Wyden Warns of Another Section 702 Abuse
2026-03-26T07:23:47Z•5dcca85a7f38662fbeb99b4105e5a95537b3e9005cf25faff701979a9c67cb80
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What happened
Collection of recent security and privacy developments: Sen. Ron Wyden warns of undisclosed "secret law" and potential abuses under Section 702 ahead of reauthorization, calling for declassification and congressional debate. Multiple operational incidents include Proton Mail providing payment/subscriber metadata to Swiss authorities (passed to the FBI), South Korea’s tax agency accidentally publishing a Ledger wallet mnemonic that enabled the theft of ~$4.4M, and an IoT compromise where a researcher’s attempt to control one DJI Romo vacuum led to control of ~7,000 devices via insecure MQTT. On
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