Firefox Is Getting a New Look Later This Year

A tweaked Firefox is still my go to browser, though I have the stripped down Brave Origin Browser installed as a backup (free on Linux). But with uMatrix and uBlock Origin, Firefox is still the best privacy platform while still…

Privacy Search Proxy SearXNG

After Google changed their search to AI trash (video at bottom), it’s time to re-highlight SearXNG, and I’ve setup a Docker server with a SearXNG instance and SSL certificate via NgingxProxyManager, using Let’s Encrypt (same server as this blog). Feel…

Trump Executive Order Expands Bank Secrecy Act

I wonder what is lurking behind this EO. The identifying account holders bit, I fear, falls inline with the rest of the age verification and digital ID shenanigans going on working us towards digital ID. And worth saying, blacks are…

Big Tech Backs Colorado OS-Level Age Data Bill

(Headline article below) According to Brian Lunduke, they carved out an exception for opensource, but supposedly anything with the GPL license wouldn’t be included, so not really? It’s all just shenanigans to drive us to digital ID and biometric identification.…

Exit IP Fingerprinting Between VPN Servers

Something to be aware of depending on your threat model. On Friday the 15th of May, we became aware of a fingerprinting issue affecting Mullvad users. When a user switches from one VPN server to another, this sometimes makes…

The School Spy Boom Nobody Asked For

How has this been slipping through the cracks, abusing student’s privacy? Somewhere between the biometric lunch lines and the 24/7 monitoring software, American education became a data hoarding operation with a teaching problem. By Christina Maas Instructure, the company…

How Good Are The Widely Used Coinjoin Implementations?

(Headline technical article at bottom) With the government moving aggressively towards trying to regulate cryptocurrencies and bring them into the Bank Secrecy Act, it was time to take a closer look at coinjoin transactions to give yourself some privacy on…