Obtainium
Privacy Guides was recommending this over F-Droid as well as working on their own verification app if I remember correctly from their podcast as I was playing a game, and it looks pretty promising for installing apps directly from their…
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Senator Chris Murphy Wants Government to Regulate Your Time Online
The book was probably written by CIA ghostwriters, and part of this psyop. And Jennifer Welch’s podcast is the absolute worst, but it’s interesting as they’re getting resistance for age verification on the march to digital ID and they’re working…
Meet The Pardoned Delete Mechanic Who Wants To Stop Your Car From Spying On You
A pretty interesting story on vehicle tracking by law enforcement just needing a modern vehicle with no need to install a GPS tracker. I’d prefer just removing the hardware myself or the sim card if able, though some manufacturers are…
First Hugging Face, Now Australia: OpenAI Agents Hack Their Way Into A Government
I haven’t paid that much attention to these reports because there is a lot of propaganda floating around AI leading into the IPOs, but there was one angle that is interesting, using AI to frame people for hacking crimes. Way…
Rapping While Rome Burns (The Blockstream Boyz)
The fact that Blockstream hasn’t restored the funds to make Liquid Bitcoin whole, with funds locked in the layer 2 now for a couple weeks, it’s pretty solid evidence that you can’t trust these guys and their Liquid Bitcoin layer…
F-droid App Store Thumbs Its Nose at Google’s Dev Crackdown
And it’s not true that Google’s Play Store is more secure, as they let malware through. I’m running LineageOS and have F-Droid installed, and I use F-Droid opensource apps primarily with just a few Play Store apps because of subscriptions.…
Digital ID Age Checks Begin At Pubs In England And Wales
Yet more wealth extraction from businesses for a stupid system, which we’ll learn leaked everyone’s data eventually. You’d have to suspect that the government is grabbing all this data, and hackers are probably using purposeful exploits put in place for…
Revolut Wants Your Face At The Coffee Counter
The nerve to come out with this after leaking customer data, but the interesting point worth highlighting is the mechanism employed. They’re selling the sales terminals to vendors at half price, and there will be no transaction fees (for now)…
Qualcomm Expands Snapdragon X2 Linux Support for Developers
This is a strong foundation for the coming agentic AI spyware systems coming to surveil users, and targeting Linux, not to be left out from Windows and macOS. And worth pointing out that Qualcomm was caught a while back with…
CEOs Skip Senate Hearing About Automated Surveillance
And these hearings are all for show without anything really substantial ever getting done, though we did learn about a fourth player in the market. And they have a substantial amount of cameras installed worldwide, and the hack they suffered…
How Proton Handles Law Enforcement Data Requests
A very interesting video on how Proton deals with law enforcement requests, along with what data is available if they meet the legal requirements. And if you trust them not to be an intelligence front, there isn’t a lot of…
Man Says Naperville Officer Stalked Him With Flock Technology After Starting Affair With His Fiancée
Another good Flock ALPR story, and it just boggles my mind how officers think they can get away with this when it’s logged. Does this point to officers thinking they’re safe to do other misconduct? There certainly seems to be…