The most dangerous people to authoritarian systems aren't radicals or revolutionaries,
they're ordinary people who simply refuse to comply with illegitimate demands for their financial data.
Sam Bent
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Agorist. Counter-economist. Privacy maximalist. Student of OPSEC. Anti-authoritarian. Free speech absolutist. Logician. Ex-Darknet Vendor. Youtuber.
Dylan, useful idiot with commit access, pushed age verification PRs to systemd, Ubuntu & Arch,
got 2 Microslop employees to merge it, called it 'hilariously pointless' in the PR itself,
then watched Lennart personally block the revert after community outrage.
Unpaid compliance simp.
Sam Bent
The Engineer Who Tried to Put Age Verification Into Linux
Dylan, useful idiot with commit access, pushed age verification PRs to systemd, Ubuntu & Arch, got 2 Microslop employees to merge it, called it 'hi...
Keto diets have literally been used as a defense in DUI cases because the sensors can't tell the difference.
Now they want this in every car deciding whether you're allowed to drive yourself to the hospital during an emergency.
Europol didn't say "difficult to trace" or "challenging"....
they said can't, and that word choice matters.
You're the revenue, to be tapped, and that's best case for you.
None of this is random.
Every government on earth seems to be building the infrastructure to register, track, and control you simultaneously and the only time in history that's ever been necessary is right before they start killing people.
Bitcoin's whitepaper.
Decentralized digital currency without trusted third parties.
"A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution."
- ๐๐ถ๐๐ฐ๐ผ๐ถ๐ป: ๐ ๐ฃ๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ฟ-๐๐ผ-๐ฃ๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐๐น๐ฒ๐ฐ๐๐ฟ๐ผ๐ป๐ถ๐ฐ ๐๐ฎ๐๐ต ๐ฆ๐๐๐๐ฒ๐บ by Satoshi Nakamoto (2008)
https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
If the mafia did what the IRS does we'd call it a protection racket.
James Ettleson ordered meth through dark web markets then advertised it on Facebook, earning 100 months in federal prison.
Sam Bent
Crystal Lake Man Gets 8 Years for Dark Web Facebook Meth Sales
James Ettleson ordered meth through dark web markets then advertised it on Facebook, earning 100 months in federal prison.
Here's everything they don't want you to know, sourced from their own documents.
It's the most comprehensive post on the subject that I'm aware of.
Sam Bent
The Proton Problem
Proton has handed over user data in response to over 40,000 government orders since 2017. Their own transparency report shows a 94% compliance rate...
Prohibition has a 100% failure rate and they keep trying it anyway because it was never about protecting you.
Watching people refuse to comply with the surveillance state's endless ID harvesting is beautiful.
In 1984 they didn't have sensors in the steering wheel reading your capillary blood alcohol every time you touched it.
They didn't have algorithms deciding if you could travel.
We went past Orwell and nobody noticed.
Motorola is building a phone specifically for GrapheneOS.
The Pixel monopoly on mobile privacy is over.
IT'S NOT AGE VERIFICATION,
IT'S ID COLLECTION.
Look up the data breaches that happen when they tell you they 'don't save' your ID. This is newspeak to get you to comply and think it's not as bad.
Garlic Routing: How I2P Bundles Messages to Frustrate Surveillance
Sam Bent
Garlic Routing: How I2P Bundles Messages to Frustrate Surveillance
The unidirectional tunnel requirement in I2P means a simple request-response involves four distinct paths, and garlic routing optimizes this archit...
Your new car will scan your blood chemistry and decide if you're allowed to drive.
Both parties funded it.
Both parties voted for it.
The only fight in Washington is the one against you.
Dread is running a writing contest with $1,750 in Monero prizes and one very specific ban:
AI-generated content.
Sam Bent
Dread Pays $1,000 XMR for Good Writing
Dread is running a writing contest with $1,750 in Monero prizes and one very specific ban: AI-generated content.
Anthropic told the Pentagon:
"we won't build you a surveillance engine or autonomous kill chain" and Trump called them a national security threat for it.
The threat to national security is the government that needs AI to spy on its own citizens more efficiently.
Apple's Mandatory ID... GrapheneOS is the Exit
Apple requires your government ID to use your own phone.
Decline and you lose app access.
The "age check" company already got breached and is funded by the co-founder of Palantir.
Tails 7.5 upgrades to Tor 0.4.9.5 with Counter Galois Onion encryption and patches over 30 high-severity Firefox vulnerabilities through Tor Browser 15.0.7.
Sam Bent
Tails 7.5 Ships New Tor Circuit Encryption
Tails 7.5 upgrades to Tor 0.4.9.5 with Counter Galois Onion encryption and patches over 30 high-severity Firefox vulnerabilities through Tor Browse...