The $94 Million Smart Meter Surveillance Scheme Exposed
I used to be a SMUD customer, and I guess I’m lucky when I had a Bitcoin miner it wasn’t a modern version that sucks up a lot more electricity. It was back around 2014 when I bought an ASIC…
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Skipping Over-The-Air Updates For Your Car Could Be A Costly Mistake
If you think removing the sim card or disabling the cellular connection will stop your vehicle spying on you, you could face a significant penalty for not installing software updates, no warranty coverage. GM makes terrible products, so this is…
Proton Launches Free Standalone Cross-Platform Authenticator App
A good alternative to the platforms that are spying on you without bounds. And you’d have to assume if you’re Google Authenticator, they have access to the codes which could be given on to the government when requested. Personally, I’ve…
Pi-Hole Discloses Data Breach Triggered by WordPress Plugin Flaw
(Headline article below) This was due to the GiveWP plugin which was putting email addresses in the source code of the webpage to be harvested. And they were slow to correct and fix the bug, as I originally saw this…
U.S. Senators Introduce New Pirate Site Blocking Bill: Block BEARD
Of interest, I hadn’t used a torrent in quite a while, but I discovered that ESPN+ didn’t have the UFC Fight Night I had missed in June. Originally when I signed up for the service, we were supposed to have…
Bizarre: Woman Found Dead With 26 iPhones Glued to Her Body
Was it 26 phones worth of radiation? The glue? Something else, as this just isn’t rational behavior. Was she a mule for the phones? By Anthony Scott A Brazilian woman who had 26 iPhones glued to her body has…
IRS 1099-DA Starts in 2026: How They’ll Track Your Crypto Wallets & Trades
Your lack of financial privacy with the federal government is increasing if you buy or sell cryptocurrencies. Exchanges are going to have to report when you sell cryptocurrencies, but the privacy invasive one is they need to report when you…
Monero ‘Economic Attack’ Receives Strong Community Response
(Headline aticle below) I looked into this after seeing some messages in my Monero node log file (below), as it seems an interesting time for the project. This report labels this whole affair as a publicity stunt for this QUBIC…
Tornado Cash Trial Enters Week Three, Defense’s Expert Digital Forensics Witness Takes the Stand
The prosecution of programmers continues with the defense putting on their case. And the government does not want you to be able to have financial privacy with any cryptocurrency, and it’s really not about money laundering, as that’s just an…
What Has Your Car Been SECRETLY RECORDING About You?
These new vehicles are becoming insidious. It’s funny, as I was watching the following video, I was checking out when she said how much data your car was constantly uploading. But with how much data they are collecting, it might…
Is Your Router SECRETLY SPYING on You at Home?
And why you don’t want your ISP’s WiFi router. I’m a fan of running a regular router without WiFi and a commercial grade WiFi Access Point. I’m currently using an Ubiquiti AP purchased years ago, with a newer MikroTik router…
You Have Surveillance Tools in Your Wallet
This is a Firefox translation of a German article, but it shows they’re ramping up cash serial number tracking. This is along the lines of Automatic License Plate Reader cameras, where there is a database of your travels even if…