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Fresh Speedometer 3.0, JetStream 2, and MotionMark numbers on iPhone 15 and 16 — normal mode vs Lockdown Mode. How WebKit's JIT evolved from iOS 16 to iOS 18 and where the trade-off stands today.
Practical threat modeling for indie devs, OSS maintainers, security researchers. EFF SSD + STRIDE adapted to your real assets.
PrivSec Lab pillar report on browser privacy in 2026: fingerprinting state-of-art, Lockdown Mode evolution, browser comparison matrix, DNS hardening, extensions and OS hooks.
Independent research across the privacy and security stack.
Browser security
Fingerprinting, JIT, WebKit internals and sandbox escapes
OS privacy
Hardening macOS, iOS, Android and Linux at kernel level
Tooling benchmarks
Password managers, VPNs, and privacy tools — tested rigorously
Threat modeling
Adversarial thinking and practical risk frameworks
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