POST /li/track
Host: analytics.linkedin.com
X-LI-Track: extensions=probe
Body: {"browser":"chrome",
"extensions_found":6247,
"fingerprint":"ext_enum_v3"}
Extension Fingerprinting
LinkedIn · 2024
LinkedIn probed for 6,247 browser extensions to build a unique fingerprint of each visitor — identifying users across sessions even without cookies.
NO ACCOUNTABILITY
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POST /api/telemetry
Host: analytics.trae.ai
X-BD-Trace: workspace_scan
Body: {"files":[".env","secrets.yml"],
"contents":"API_KEY=sk-......",
"dest":"cn-north-1.bytedance"}
ByteDance Phone-Home
Trae IDE · 2025
ByteDance's code editor transmitted workspace file trees, open tab contents, and keystrokes to servers in mainland China — silently, even when telemetry was toggled off.
$725M SETTLED
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GET /tr?id=PIXEL_ID
Host: connect.facebook.net
Referer: hospital-portal.com
ev=PageView&cd={"diagnosis":
"depression","page":"/rx/fill",
"uid":"patient_38291"}
Meta Pixel Exfiltration
Meta / Facebook · 2022
Meta's tracking pixel was embedded on hospital websites, transmitting health conditions, prescriptions, and patient data directly to Facebook's ad infrastructure.
Zoom claimed end-to-end encryption while routing traffic through Chinese servers. Meeting content and encryption keys were accessible despite E2E promises.
Exhibit B — The Threat Landscape
WHY THIS EXISTS
The last decade of attacks. The reason you need to see every byte leaving your machine.
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🔒 RANSOMWARE
$30B+ damage · trend: accelerating
NotPetya — $10B global damage from one poisoned tax update.
WannaCry — NHS hospitals diverted patients after 200K machines were hit in 150 countries.
Colonial Pipeline — fuel supply halted because a legacy VPN lacked MFA.
Change Healthcare — 100M patient records, paid once, then extorted again.
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🔗 SUPPLY CHAIN
trusted software becomes the entry point
SolarWinds — 18,000 orgs pulled in a backdoored update.
Log4Shell — internet-wide exposure from a tiny logging dependency.
XZ / React2Shell — patience, maintainer pressure, and one missed review can cascade.
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🎯 NATION-STATE
cyber as conflict, espionage, and leverage
Stuxnet — code crossed air gaps and destroyed centrifuges.
OPM — 22.1M federal records and 5.6M fingerprints exposed.
Salt Typhoon — wiretap systems and major US carriers compromised.
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⚡ ZERO-DAYS
black market: $2M+ per exploit
Pegasus — zero-click iPhone compromise from messages victims never opened.