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…
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…
The managing of groups, manned and unmanned, is interesting. One thing is for sure, Russia is actively testing and perfecting their war tech in the long running war with Ukraine. They also have a new recently deployed AI guided 30mm…
(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.…
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…
Is this perhaps a clue to where the US digital ID identification is heading. It reminds me of Mexico doing similar for a cellphone number. Perhaps an impetus to sign on with a larger carrier as an independent driver instead…
Of interest, they actually mentioned the repo men ALPR cameras that have been in use along with law enforcement vehicle ALPR cameras for quite some time. I used to watch a repo man’s YouTube videos back in the 2010’s who…
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…
(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…
There is a clue in this showing their surveillance purposes with AI. This is going to be a lot better than the Bank Secrecy Act which forces banks to overreport financial transactions to the government, as AI will see everything…
Another good point for Linux is these are getting fixed pretty fast compared to Microsoft’s slow updates on their closed source software. And in the end Linux will be more secure. Though my Arch based systems have gotten like three…
Basically, they’re going to weasel away your financial privacy with cryptocurrencies, and Warren is the worst as even the government’s expert witness with their blockchain analysis firm said money laundering was a small percentage of the mixing transactions. And those…
