Microsoft's "Fix" for Windows 11: Flowers After the Beating... Microsoft spent four years stuffing Windows 11 with ads, forced Copilot integrations, and bloatware, now they want applause for promising to remove it.

The dining cryptographers problem. Unconditional sender and recipient untraceability. "We describe a protocol by which a group of cryptographers can determine whether one of them paid for dinner, without revealing who paid." The Dining Cryptographers Problem: Unconditional Sender and Recipient Untraceability by David Chaum (1988)

The Dining Cryptographers Problem

#OPSEC365 002/365 If someone watched you for a week, they'd know exactly when your house is empty. You leave for work at the same time every day, grab coffee from the same place, take the same route home, and park in the same spot. That pattern is a schedule you're broadcasting to anyone paying attention. Pick one part of your daily routine and change it tomorrow just to prove you can. Predictability is a vulnerability because it lets someone plan around you. Varying even small things like your commute time, parking spot, or which entrance you use makes surveillance harder and forces anyone watching to invest more time and resources.

#OPSEC365 001/365 That selfie you texted last week included the exact GPS coordinates of where you were standing when you took it. Pull up any photo in your camera roll, swipe up on iPhone or tap Details on Android, and see the map pinpointing the location baked into the file. Now think about every photo you've ever sent to someone you shouldn't fully trust. To stop this at the source, turn off location for your camera app. On iPhone go to Settings, Privacy, Location Services, Camera, and set it to Never. On Android open Camera settings and disable location tags.

Kill switch infrastructure in every vehicle means geo-fencing, speed limit enforcement, no-drive zones all at the push of a button. An algorithm you can't challenge decides if your car operates. You still pay for it. Absolute insanity.

X but without ID verification, or a subscription. Download Tor Browser -> Go to Darkwebdaily.live (my link site) -> find Pitch Make an account, no email or other bs required. I have a collection of my favorite people on there here: /p/6075dfe2

ABOLISH THE TSA! > 318 DHS employees arrested in a single year, about one per workday > Fails 95% of undercover weapons tests > $200M/year spent on a behavior detection program that caught zero terrorists > 3,408 misconduct cases in 2012 alone a 26% jump from two years prior > 500+ agents fired or suspended for stealing from passengers > 16 known terrorists flew through U.S. airports undetected > $800K stolen by just one agent over four years while on the job

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Hundreds of DHS employees arrested for laptop thefts, drug smuggling, other crimes

IG probes led to 260 convictions in 2011.

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.

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." - 𝗕𝗶𝘁𝗰𝗼𝗶𝗻: 𝗔 𝗣𝗲𝗲𝗿-𝘁𝗼-𝗣𝗲𝗲𝗿 𝗘𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗰 𝗖𝗮𝘀𝗵 𝗦𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺 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.