When an app trusts an unpatched 5-year-old phone but blocks a fully patched hardened one, the gatekeeping was never about security It’s about who controls your device, you or the vendor

Monero 0.18.5.3 “Fluorine Fermi” released 🚀 Major P2P & relay fixes Wallet & multisig hardening RandomX v1.2.3 182 commits by 17 contributors

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Blog: Monero 0.18.5.3

Highly recommended release including a large number of bug fixes.

The surveillance business model: collect behavior, predict preferences, sell attention. You are not the customer. You are the product being sold.

You don’t need to be perfect You need to be harder to track than average That alone moves you out of most mass surveillance nets

Cloud storage is someone else’s computer If you don’t control the keys, you don’t control the data Nextcloud or Syncthing for self-hosted alternatives

Connected cars can share personal data with advertisers & trackers 19/21 cars contacted third parties and 7/30 apps sent sensitive info View quoted note →

Delete what you don’t need Local, in the cloud, on your phone Data you don’t have can’t be breached

GrapheneOS: Android without Google Hardened security. Sandboxed apps. No account required.

$XMR has stayed above $500 for 30 days straight.

True fungibility protects everyone, from a tiny criminal minority to the honest masses Strip privacy from money and you don't stop crooks, you cage everyone

Monero hides sender, receiver and amount by default Not a setting. Not an option. The baseline.

whitelist your npub with XMR keep your feed clean 👉🏻 pmnr.xmr.rocks

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GrapheneOS will support Motorola’s Signature 27

Monero is only as good as the people who use it.

Faraday bags block all radio signals No GPS, no cellular, no WiFi, no Bluetooth Use one when you need true isolation