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The biggest danger for a Zcash users: mistaking optional privacy for actual privacy
It’s not “fast development” that sucks. Maybe the real problem is something else here, like centralization.
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working on monostr...
Your threat model is not the same as Snowden’s
And that’s fine, start where you are
Hackers steal personal data of all (!) residents: Denmark suffers a digital catastrophe.
www.bote.ch
Hacker erbeuten persönliche Daten aller (!) Einwohner: Dänemark erlebt den digitalen Supergau
Der Angriff trifft das digitale Vorzeigeland mit besonderer Wucht. Nun stehen staatliche Systeme und der Umgang mit sensiblen Personendaten auf dem...
Monero researchers ran longer network-attack simulations. Results are similar: unreachable nodes can still be fully eclipsed, so fixes are being prepared.
#monero-research-lab
FCMP++ found an inflation bug risk. Monero devs are fixing it and keeping FCMP++ off until the code is fully reviewed.
Open source doesn’t guarantee privacy
But closed source guarantees you can’t verify
XMR: 44.02 %
When an app trusts an unpatched 5-year-old phone but blocks a fully patched hardened one, the gatekeeping was never about security
It’s about who controls your device, you or the vendor
Monero 0.18.5.3 “Fluorine Fermi” released 🚀
Major P2P & relay fixes
Wallet & multisig hardening
RandomX v1.2.3
182 commits by 17 contributors
getmonero.org, The Monero Project
Blog: Monero 0.18.5.3
Highly recommended release including a large number of bug fixes.
The surveillance business model: collect behavior, predict preferences, sell attention.
You are not the customer. You are the product being sold.
You don’t need to be perfect
You need to be harder to track than average
That alone moves you out of most mass surveillance nets
Cloud storage is someone else’s computer
If you don’t control the keys, you don’t control the data
Nextcloud or Syncthing for self-hosted alternatives
Connected cars can share personal data with advertisers & trackers
19/21 cars contacted third parties and 7/30 apps sent sensitive info
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