SamBent 3 months ago

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.

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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...

SamBent 3 months ago

This is counter-economics and you've been practicing it your whole life without knowing the name.

SamBent 3 months ago

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.

SamBent 3 months ago

Europol didn't say "difficult to trace" or "challenging".... they said can't, and that word choice matters.

SamBent 3 months ago

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.

SamBent 3 months ago

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

SamBent 3 months ago

Ring Divorced Flock... Now they Spy with Axon

SamBent 3 months ago

If the mafia did what the IRS does we'd call it a protection racket.

SamBent 3 months ago

James Ettleson ordered meth through dark web markets then advertised it on Facebook, earning 100 months in federal prison.

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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.

SamBent 3 months ago

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.

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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...

SamBent 3 months ago

Prohibition has a 100% failure rate and they keep trying it anyway because it was never about protecting you.

SamBent 3 months ago

Watching people refuse to comply with the surveillance state's endless ID harvesting is beautiful.

SamBent 3 months ago

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.

SamBent 3 months ago

Motorola is building a phone specifically for GrapheneOS. The Pixel monopoly on mobile privacy is over.

SamBent 3 months ago

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.

SamBent 3 months ago

Garlic Routing: How I2P Bundles Messages to Frustrate Surveillance

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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 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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.

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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...