Walmart Knows What You Can Afford
The privacy policy is very disturbing, and their lack of morality in prices and weights is equally so. I would never install the Sam’s Club or Walmart apps on my phone, and I set my phone to airplane mode when…
Jason
The Surveillance Giant With a Secret Mafia
This has some very interesting connections, and pay attention to the predictive policing tied into Flock ALPR cameras which has been experimented with for a long time. Of note, Flock AI gets license plates wrong, so how much more wrong…
France Considers Major Changes to Bitcoin Tax and Self Custody Rules
France has plans for your money, The high capital gains for just converting to stablecoin is ridiculous along with the exit tax. And having to report self-custody is to build a list for when the government wants to confiscate it,…
Targeted Ads Installed Candiru Spyware in Zero-Click Attacks
And why blocking ads (and elements with uMatrix) along with DNS blocking of advertisement, malware, and telemetry sites is essential, as they just don’t vet these ads they’ll feed to your computer, a gaping security hole you didn’t sign up…
Amazon Launches Ominous Wearable Ankle Monitor-Style Gadget That Records You Constantly
Amazon is the king of getting you to pay for your own surveillance. I wonder what’s going on with megacorp office workers these days, as you know they’d love to have this kind of surveillance. When I left we were…
Microsoft Wants to Protect Your Linux Desktop with Defender
Sure, I’ll gladly add your Microsoft spyware to my computer after leaving Windows spyware for Linux. Though, this is subscription based service and for enterprise developers who are running Linux desktops, so more for corporate IT management with spyware most…
Prop 1 Supporters Blast Fire Dept’s Cancellation Of Trunk Or Treat As ‘Propaganda’
There is big money behind the advertisements I see fighting against Proposition 1 to cut property taxes by 50%, because there are businesses that want your tax dollars with profit paying for the ad campaign. And really this is a…
Tesla’s Flying Roadster Revealed: Everything That Happened in 10 Minutes
The interesting bit I wanted to highlight is the steer by wire. We’ve had throttle by wire for a while now, which I’m not a huge fan of, but steer by wire is a solid no thank you. A severe…
The Wicked Shall Return to Sheol
Psalm 9 has a perplexing verse, and I haven’t seen anything conclusive from Bible commentaries, with some Bible study notes not even addressing it. And this is a good translation of the Hebrew, rendering the verb return. Sheol is a…
Ledger’s Answer to Wallet Tampering Costs $849 and Ships Next Year
A company with a worsening security record, with state level tampered reseller wallets supposedly stealing $86 million from customers so far, now has zero credibility to release such a device demanding such a hefty price tag. And I’m pretty sure…
Russia to Ban Direct Peer-to-Peer Crypto Trades Starting July 2027
Russia has actually been ahead of the west in the push towards a digital Panopticon, so this gives away the plan, no self-custody, no payments, no P2P exchanging, and only custodial accounts. All those restrictions pretty much remove all the…
EU Chat Control Reports Processed With Palantir Software
Personally, I don’t trust the “runs locally” comment or that this data isn’t uploaded to federal databases. And how do you know how they fingerprint and what data they’re looking to collect? I personally wouldn’t communicate intimately with any friends…