The development of America's offensive cyber exploitation programs are classified, making it difficult to find sources willing to talk about it for the book "A Burglar's Guide to the City." The Soviet Union went to great lengths to bug the American embassy in Moscow, but the US government was able to intercept their attempts and remove all bugs from the embassy's equipment before bringing them back to America.
Brave browser offers advanced features like WebUSB while maintaining the strongest protections against web tracking and fingerprinting-based tracking.
Microsoft only started fully prioritizing cybersecurity after massive failures in software when worms like Nimda impacted their biggest customers, while Google took notice after being hacked by China, realizing that security was becoming a larger challenge and began dumping issues on bug track forums and offering bug bounties.
The development of America's offensive cyber exploitation programs is discussed in relation to a real-life spy story involving Soviet bugs in the US embassy in Moscow. The process of removing the bugs and evaluating every piece of equipment at the embassy is also detailed.