SamBent 1 month ago

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...

SamBent 1 month ago

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.

SamBent 1 month ago

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.

SamBent 1 month ago

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.

SamBent 1 month ago

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.

SamBent 1 month ago

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...

SamBent 1 month ago

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

ProtectEU: Agenda to prevent and counter terrorism

ProtectEU: 2026 Agenda on preventing and countering terrorism and violent extremism

SamBent 1 month ago

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. 🤡

SamBent 1 month ago

A Botnet Accidentally Destroyed I2P (The Full Story)

SamBent 1 month ago

𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗽 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗹𝗼𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝘃𝗮𝗻 𝗼𝗻 𝗔𝟭𝟮, 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝟯𝟬𝟬+ 𝗯𝗼𝘁𝘁𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗹𝗮𝘂𝗴𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗴𝗮𝘀 𝗦𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗴𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗮 𝗴𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲.

SamBent 1 month ago

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...

SamBent 1 month ago

Monero took Bytecoin's compromised foundation and built the only privacy coin governments still can't crack.

SamBent 1 month ago

Whonix 18.1.4.2 disables VirtualBox dynamic resolution by default after developers discovered the auto-resize feature creates unique fingerprints that persist across reboots. Link Below

SamBent 1 month ago

Stupidity is an infinite well.

SamBent 1 month ago

A botnet that broke DDoS records at 31.4 terabits per second accidentally crippled I2P's anonymity network while trying to use it as a backup command infrastructure, and the developers responded with post-quantum cryptography enabled by default.

Sam Bent

I2P 2.11.0 Ships Post-Quantum Crypto After Botnet Siege

A botnet that broke DDoS records at 31.4 terabits per second accidentally crippled I2P's anonymity network while trying to use it as a backup comma...

SamBent 1 month ago

Ubuntu Thinks You're Retarded, and That Checkboxes Are Dangerous...

Sam Bent

Ubuntu Thinks You're Retarded, and That Checkboxes Are Dangerous

Canonical pulled the Software & Updates GUI from Ubuntu 26.04 because they decided the checkboxes were "dangerous" for you, a person who somehow ma...

SamBent 1 month ago

Every Tor bridge is a compromise between stealth, speed, and convenience. Choose wisely.

SamBent 2 months ago

I made this music video for fun. It took 4 hours. I call it "Burn the Ledger". It's about Agorism, Freedom, and the Fed. I had fun.

SamBent 2 months ago

Tor Browser 16.0a2 lands with a Firefox 147 base, OpenSSL 3.5.5 security patches, and the first glimpse of life after ESR.

SamBent 2 months ago

The fact that "Bitcoin privacy best practices" is a 47-page guide while Monero's is "send it" tells you everything about which chain respects your time and freedom.