China’s border police are using a secret tool called Massistant to extract everything—from GPS to Signal chats—off phones.

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China's Massistant Tool Secretly Extracts SMS, GPS Data, and Images From Confiscated Phones

China’s Massistant tool collects mobile data via USB or Wi-Fi, targeting Android and iOS users. Used by law enforcement.

KYC SIM cards are a huge (and underestimated) threat to liberty Who you stand near and where you go are just two of the critical facts you give away. I'm grinding as hard, as lean as I can, to bring you the best deals. To the point that you would be crazy to KYC to the Google store for fiat ID, tax, + shipping. Today, 0 battery cycles Pixel 9a brand new GrapheneOS original box & charger Selling it for just $520, including shipping. Bitcoin is up. Monero up long-term. Great time to lock in some deep savings and improve you freedom. Signal: +855 68 504 905 Session: Support SimpleX:

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This is why Nostr. There are enough people here that get it, that you don't have to read the dribble everyday View quoted note →

Don't just Degoogle, Zero Google. As Google shifts to put AI and "Find my device" in the hardware itself, who knows if this corrupt and evil company secretly has backdoors in Pixels. We just don't know. Introducing the first of our "Zero Google" non-Pixel Phones, LineageOS OnePlus 9 Carrier Unlocked No Battery Cycles, Brand New Mint condition, Black 3 Month Warranty from us Secured by a binding arbitration XMRBazaar deposit Optional 6-month VPN subscription as well. $320 in Bitcoin or Monero. In theory, the "find my device" needs a google account to be activated. And if you trust that, then we offer Pixels with GrapheneOS. But if you don't, and you want to completely separate your ties from Google, then this is an easy, low-cost way, to keep your name off the IMEI for geolocation tracking from celltowers, save time with Lineage's setup, and get an amazing price for a mint condition brand new device. Reach out either way for Graphene or Lineage. It's not for me to decide, it's your device:

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Become a Ghost on Android, In an empire of lies, the truth is treason. Protect yourself from your own views. New article out on: Travel Routers, Firewalls, VoIP, Geolocation surveillance, & Networking to become invisible:

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Proton uses Cloudflare The VPN traffic, which sees your real home IP (and packet size and timing), flows through Cloudflare to Proton. This is an undeniable conflict of interest, because the websites you're hiding from are also on Cloudflare. In this epic meme slide show "article" with humor, we quickly present the critical facts you need to know,

Privacy Hell: Proton Uses Cloudflare | Simplified Privacy

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Messaging is broken. Signal is centralized. SimpleX doesn't do groups well. Session doesn't auto-rotate keys. XMPP lacks multi-device support. And Matrix leaks metadata & is slow. Nostr DMs are currently horrible. But White Noise looks like a promising potential upcoming solution to all of these problems. It uses MLS for the actual encryption with Nostr keys just for identity. MLS is able to offer easy scaling for groups, that isn't bogged down by being a bunch of one-on-ones in disguise as a group UI, the way signal, session, and simplex are. Check out,

White Noise - Secure Private Messenger

A truly secure and private messenger that

Another promosing one is @Keychat here's how they differ: View quoted note →

People often mix up using Linux as a home residential computer, with doing command line cloud services. Yes, learning the terminal and running services requires knowledge. But just using the graphical environment like a regular home PC with something like Mint, is barely different than Windows. You DON'T need to know the terminal to use Linux for a home PC.

Emotional moment releasing the HydraVeil 1.1.0 into the wild. --Font randomization per profile --Hardened Canvas reset per session --In-app QR codes for XMR/Bitcoin lightning --Improved Checkout UI flow SHA-256 sum: 24f34a280447adbea4cb9457b5191cec9a3031c5fa384433d626d63ade7bfdf4

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HydraVeil Release 1.1.0 New Privacy Features: --Font randomization per profile, to prevent cross-browser fingerprinting, implemented in the core environment --Hardened Canvas reset per enabled session, customized and tailored for each of the 4 browser families we support --Updated Browser Versions for Security New Quality of Life Features: --In-app QR codes for XMR/Bitcoin lightning --Improved Checkout UI flow SHA-256 sum: 24f34a280447adbea4cb9457b5191cec9a3031c5fa384433d626d63ade7bfdf4 Download link (or do it in app): https://api.simplifiedprivacy.is/downloads/linux-x86_64/clients/v1.1.0/appimage/hydra-veil-x86_64.AppImage Gitlab with changes:

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The HydraVeil core library exposes core logic to higher-level components.

Instructions: Please upgrade HydraVeil asap, and then upgrade/download the browsers as well (except Chromium see article below). Not only for general browser security, but to take advantage of our new features. Article with Notes:

HydraVeil 1.1.0 Release! Upgrade Now | Simplified Privacy

Trump says China is evil Yet he's having this Palantir database store everything similar to China's social credit score: -Tax filings -Student debt -Social Security -Bank accounts -Medical claims -Immigration status Former Republican Representative Justin Amash: "The surveillance state...the police state...the deep state......are alive & well under Trump. He signed bills to extend & expand mass surveillance. Now he's building profiles' on millions of law-abiding Americans. It's an extraordinary threat to liberty." [1] The real move is not to debate this stuff, but to prevent it from being in the database to begin with. It's hard to opt out of everything, but a good start is Linux, Degoogled phone, cryptocurrency, and encrypted messengers. Then self-host email and use VoIP (when a regular number is required). Finally consider buying things from parallel legal systems and economies. Slowly the resistance grows, through improving people's lives, and not violence on the street. Ironically, the more you resist, the less dirt they have on you. And the better your "social credit score". [1]

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"Trump flipped on us": MAGA reacts to potential national citizen database

"Seriously, if Palantir isn't the deep state, then what is?" wrote Trump supporter Nick Fuentes.

Ironically Democrats protesting Donald Trump, creates the conditions where he has to use authoritarian force to crush (sometimes) violent protests. In other words, "no kings" will create a king.

When I was younger, I learned the government was corrupt. But I thought it could be changed by education. Now I am older and wiser, and I see that the government will never change, but we can create a parallel society among those who are aware. All of these are public/private keys with repetition, that transcend physical locations (and therefore, create their own law). Nostr: No blockchain, you pull it from the relays the poster put it on. Session: Blockchain pays the nodes, but no data or metadata stored on there. It strictly incentives the nodes to route and store it. Bastyon: Blockchain stores the metadata. But the actual posts are off-chain. Arweave: Blockchain literally stores the data up to a certain size, then the rest is off-chain to have infinite scale. Some will debate over which is better for what. But this misses the point. Fighting among ourselves over different tools, only divides the little community we have. I say, make em all connect.

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