Citing bank closures of Nigeria's End SARS activists, a Ugandan human rights lawyer, Alexei Navalnys' opposition campaign, a Guatemalan journalist, a religious activist group in the Phillipines, a business man in Egypt, and a journalist from India, the RUSI report states that: "These are just a handful of the victims/survivors from around the world who have had their organisations closed, colleagues imprisoned, or bank accounts indefinitely frozen because of their pro-accountability and pro-transparency work as members of civil society. All of these incidents, and countless more, arise from a perversion of tools and powers stemming from anti-money laundering and counterterrorist financing (AML/CTF) measures within the global anti- financial crime regime."

The Rage

RUSI Report Finds FATF Standards Widely Weaponized To Crack Down On Civil Society

The UK's Royal United Services Institute issued a 45 page report on the weaponization of FATF standards and its influence on the repression of watc...

The fact that the software you produce is open source, is not an excuse for shitty customer service.

Based. What’s with the cassava though?

…Binance disclosed this in an announcement on its “commitment to P2P users in Nigeria” on Tuesday, warning that “users behaving in a manipulative way will be removed from the platform.”…

Peoples Gazette Nigeria

Binance confirms working with Tinubu govt to block dollar-naira exchange

“Users behaving in a manipulative way will be removed from the platform.’’

Here’s a counterargument for #filters. The whole premise of #consensus is that all participants agrees on the same set of rules. Your node, your rules is not how #Bitcoin works. The network already operates under a set of rules that have been publicly agreed upon. By running a node, you help to make sure these rules are followed, contributing to their collective implementation. You may as well fork off the network if you think it’s your node, your rules.

This is the most privacy-invasive feature to be added to the major cab hailing apps of recent. I don’t understand how that is supposed to make me safe. Be careful what you say in cabs; it just might be getting recorded. #privacy

If you use a hardware wallet that uses Bluetooth, you should be mindful of these new attacks: “BLUFFS is a series of exploits targeting Bluetooth, aiming to break Bluetooth sessions' forward and future secrecy, compromising the confidentiality of past and future communications between devices.”

BleepingComputer

New BLUFFS attack lets attackers hijack Bluetooth connections

Researchers at Eurecom have developed six new attacks collectively named 'BLUFFS' that can break the secrecy of Bluetooth sessions, allow...

The people of Zambia woke up on Friday to discover that energy prices had gone up by some odd 40+%. This is coming after the government devalued the currency by 30% due to depleting foreign currency reserves. In real terms, the people of Zambia just got a 30% cut in their wealth overnight. Earning an income in Zambian kwachas? Have financial assets in ZMW? Too bad, your income (assets) will have to go up by at least 30% to keep up with the devaluation. Imagine saving for retirement and waking up one day to realize you’ve lost 3 years worth of savings out of the last 10! #Bitcoin fixes this. https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/malawi-hikes-fuel-electricity-prices-after-currency-devaluation-2023-11-10/

Exactly as @ODELL predicted.

TechCrunch

X launches account verification based on government ID | TechCrunch

X, formerly Twitter, has launched government ID-based account verification for paid users to prevent impersonation.

X (formerly Twitter)

Richard “Dick” Whitman (🌎/21M) (@GhostofWhitman) on X

LOL Nic Carter is launching more tokens Permissionless tokens, but only available to people outside the US

"basically risk-free”

Dog dumplings is the new term for shitcoin H/T @Brad Mills

Very impressive. Same scene, different characters, probably different times of the day. #diablo4 #diabloiv

#TIL: Shuudan Koudou - the Japanese art of precision walking

Most people don’t realize how broken the Internet is unless you live in one of these “undesirous” locations. View quoted note →

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I know. #Zapping can be addictive. View quoted note →

“You can’t change politically, that which exists culturally.” — Olavo de Carvalho

Here’s how to enable zapping on Damus: 1. Open the link in the note and click “On” 2. It’ll open in Damus and all you have to do is click “Run” 3. Close Damus and reopen it. 4. Enjoy your zaps! #zaps #growstr #damus

Damus

jb55 on nostr

Cool #nostrscript https://main--comfy-gnome-e2067d.netlify.app

How to escape Worldcoin https://open.substack.com/pub/insanelyfree/p/how-to-escape-worldcoin