#OPSEC365 141/365
In 1992, NYNEX alone processed 25,510 subpoenas. Scaled nationally, Ross Anderson estimated roughly half a million Americans have phone records seized each year. Metadata is collected on perhaps 100x as many people as are wiretapped.
This is surveillance as routine administrative process. The infrastructure existed before you were a person of interest.
Sam Bent
contact@sambent.com
npub1y7rv...d0r3
Agorist. Counter-economist. Privacy maximalist. Student of OPSEC. Anti-authoritarian. Free speech absolutist. Logician. Ex-Darknet Vendor. Youtuber.
They deserve it.


#OPSEC365 140/365
Phones in gym locker rooms are recording devices everyone ignores.
People scroll their phones while changing, and those phones have cameras. Gym mirror selfies often capture other people in the background. The social norm against locker room recording doesn't prevent it from happening constantly.
Be aware of who has a phone out when you're in spaces where you expect privacy.
#OPSEC365
IMSI catchers and fake cell tower attacks.
"Mobile phones will connect to any base station with the strongest signal, enabling surveillance and interception."
Practical Attacks Against Privacy and Availability in 4G/LTE Mobile Communication Systems by Altaf Shaik et al. (2015)
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1510.07563.pdf


When one XMR hits six figures, you'll be pricing things in nanoneros and the math will still work.


#OPSEC365 139/365
Subscription boxes reveal your interests and spending patterns.
Monthly deliveries of beauty products, pet supplies, snacks, or hobby items are logged by payment processors, shipping services, and the companies themselves. The pattern of what you receive monthly builds a detailed consumer profile.
Every subscription box company you forgot to cancel still has your address on file and ships to it monthly.
#OPSEC365
The most radical act in 2026 is two people agreeing on a price without asking the government's permission first.


#OPSEC365 138/365
One of the cleanest elicitation moves is the deliberate misstatement. The collector says something slightly wrong about your project. Your instinct is to correct them.
Hadnagy documents this: the correction gives accurate details and often reveals far more than the false claim was designed to extract. Your need to be accurate is weaponized against you.
Pitch is back up!
(it's twitter on the darknet, clickable links on my site darknetlist.is)


#OPSEC365 137/365
Your car is a sealed room with a permanent microphone, persistent corporate connectivity, and a legal identity tied to the VIN.
BMW, GM OnStar, and Tesla process voice commands server-side. Queries are logged against your registration. NTTP 3-13.3M: protect your Critical Information List. What you discuss while driving belongs on it.
Cronk's SEPARATE strategy: isolate contexts by trust level. Your infotainment is not a secure comms environment. #OPSEC365
Pitch darknet forum (It's basically twitter for the darknet) currently down for 'server migration'.
24+ hours now. Hurry up Wamus.


#OPSEC365 136/365
Security camera footage of you exists in dozens of databases.
Convenience stores, ATMs, gas stations, office buildings, and parking garages all record continuously. Most footage is overwritten in days or weeks, but clips of interest get saved indefinitely. You're recorded hundreds of times daily in any urban area.
Walk through your typical day and count how many cameras might have captured you.
#OPSEC365
Ten years of cryptographic hardening forged in the fire of actual adversarial conditions.


#OPSEC365 135/365
Probate records reveal the details of estates and inheritances.
When someone dies, the probate process makes public their assets, debts, beneficiaries, and the distribution of their estate. Your inheritance appears in court records alongside the details of what everyone else received. Family financial structures become publicly documented.
If you've inherited assets through probate, search the court records and see what's public.
#OPSEC365
I find commercial, regulated, fake rebellion to be one of the most distasteful psyops.
People have fallen so far even acts of rebellion are corporatized, and state approved.

