piccirello
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> In Firefox Private Browsing mode, the identifier can also persist after all private windows are closed, as long as the Firefox process remains running. In Tor Browser, the stable identifier persists even through the "New Identity" feature, which is designed to be a full reset that clears cookies and browser history and uses new Tor circuits.
As a US company, it's certainly true that given a court order Apple would have to provide these keys to law enforcement. That's why getting the architecture right is so important. Also check out iCloud Advanced Data Protection for similar protections over the rest of your iCloud data.
[0] https://sixcolors.com/post/2025/09/filevault-on-macos-tahoe-...
I find it fascinating that the goal is to staff this exclusively with EU citizens, thereby excluding non-citizen residents of the EU.
> The AWS European Sovereign Cloud will be capable of operation without dependency on global AWS systems so that the AWS European Sovereign Cloud will remain viable for operating workloads indefinitely even in the face of exceptional circumstances that could isolate the AWS European Sovereign Cloud from AWS resources located outside the EU, such as catastrophic disruption of transatlantic communications infrastructure or a military or geopolitical crisis threatening the sovereignty of EU member states.
It's worth noting that at the time of this report, this only affected PostHog's single tenant hobby deployment (i.e. our self hosted version). Our Cloud deployment used our Rust service for sending webhooks, which has had SSRF protection since May 2024[1].
Since this report we've evolved our Cloud architecture significantly, and we have similar IP-based filtering throughout our backend services.
[0] https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/pull/25398
[1] https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/commit/281af615b4874da1b8...
Security at PostHog (W20);
Former Co-Founder & CTO at Doppler (W19)