#OPSEC365 115/365 Prescription discount cards like GoodRx sell data about what medications you take. GoodRx settled with the FTC for sharing health information with Facebook and Google for advertising. Every prescription you run through a discount card gets logged. The logs build a health profile tied to your identity. GoodRx paid $1.5 million to settle FTC charges for sharing health data with Facebook and Google. #OPSEC365

The glass house has better "auditability" and "transparency" until someone throws a rock, and then you realize walls exist for a reasonMonero understood this from day one.

Decentralization only matters if you actually run a node. #nostr

#OPSEC365 114/365 Boarding pass barcodes contain more than your seat assignment. The PDF417 barcode on your boarding pass encodes your full name, flight details, frequent flyer number, and sometimes your booking reference. Anyone who photographs your discarded boarding pass or your Instagram post showing it can decode data and pull up your full itinerary. Stop posting photos of boarding passes, and shred them when you're done flying. #OPSEC365

#OPSEC365 113/365 Neighborhood apps like Nextdoor are surveillance networks you join voluntarily. Posts about suspicious activity include photos and descriptions of people. Package theft reports reveal when you're receiving deliveries. Crime alert posts expose what happens at specific addresses. Your address is verified and visible to neighbors you may not know. Even with no Nextdoor account, your block is being documented by everyone on it who does. #OPSEC365

Privacy is a practice, not a product. Verifying relays. #nostr

The government's first lesson to every kid entrepreneur is that your labor belongs to them first.

#OPSEC365 112/365 Facial recognition is running on you in stores, stadiums, and airports without your knowledge. Clearview AI scraped billions of photos from social media to build a searchable database used by law enforcement and private companies. Madison Square Garden uses facial recognition to ban lawyers suing the company from attending events. Walking through a public space puts your face into multiple of these systems at once. #OPSEC365

#OPSEC365 111/365 Your Tesla logs every trip, stop, and charge with timestamps and GPS coordinates. All modern connected cars do this. GM, Ford, and BMW all collect driving data. Some sell it to insurers. Tesla's telemetry has been subpoenaed in criminal cases and divorces, placing drivers at specific locations at specific times. Before you drive somewhere you'd rather not have on record, your car is taking notes. #OPSEC365

The network stays decentralized because random people in basements run nodes, and you should be one of them.

Delisted from exchanges, banned from on-ramps, attacked by regulators, and still the default currency of every serious darknet market.

The CIA doesn't do interviews about Monero.Tell me more about your transparent fed coin and the L2 duct tape you bolt on to pretend it's private.Use Monero. Privacy at the protocol level since 2014.Maxis, chimp out below.Credit: Anthony Pompliano

They say MAC randomization protects you. If it worked, they wouldn't bother collecting it. Naval Academy researchers showed Apple's Bluetooth leaks the real MAC anyway.

#OPSEC365 102/365 Your handwriting is a biometric you leave on paper. Unique letter formations, pressure patterns, slant angles. Forensic document examiners can match handwriting samples across documents. That note you wrote, that card you signed, that form you filled out by hand all contain identifiable patterns. Forensic document examiners have matched handwriting samples decades apart. For most people this is not a threat. For activists, whistleblowers, and others with elevated threat models, handwritten documents create traceable evidence. Printed labels and typed documents avoid this entirely.

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Members of Congress have private gold elevators, private gyms, dining rooms, they exempt themselves from laws and have a lifetime pension after one term. The people who fund all of it have to abide by an uncountable amount of laws (google it), pay late fees, get pulled over for going 5 mph over the speed limit.

Anyone with an internet connection can search your Bitcoin balance, trace your transaction history, and link it to your identity but tell me again how "number go up" makes that a feature and not a catastrophic design flaw.

The most respected cypherpunk in Bitcoin's history told you transparent ledgers are designed to harm individual privacy, and the Bitcoin community pretends they never heard him, Monero is what Hal was actually describing.

HSBC's own ad copy explains exactly why Monero needs to exist when someone controls your finances, they control you, and the only money that can't be controlled, frozen, or surveilled is the money they're trying to ban.