If the mafia did what the IRS does we'd call it a protection racket.
Sam Bent
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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
Proton Helped the FBI Unmask a Protester. Then Said They Didn't.
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...
Enjoy being classified as a terrorist for disagreeing with the state.
(I am too)
Imagine what the next levels of this will be if they are already arresting you for memes.
There's a limited window where people can stand up for themselves before the control grid is totally done.
Source: 
Migration and Home Affairs
EU Agenda on preventing and countering terrorism
ProtectEU: 2026 Agenda on preventing and countering terrorism and violent extremism
In 1984 the telescreens watched you but couldn't stop you from moving.
Section 24220 puts sensors in your cars start button that read your blood chemistry and decide if you're allowed to drive.
It's for your safety. ๐คก
A Botnet Accidentally Destroyed I2P (The Full Story)
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Tor Browser 15.0.6 ships with Counter Galois Onion circuit encryption that eliminates tagging attacks,
plus a heap buffer overflow patch from Firefox ESR 140.7.1.
Sam Bent
Tor Browser 15.0.6 Ships New Circuit Encryption
Tor Browser 15.0.6 ships with Counter Galois Onion circuit encryption that eliminates tagging attacks, plus a heap buffer overflow patch from Firef...
Monero took Bytecoin's compromised foundation and built the only privacy coin governments still can't crack.