The advanced cryptography methods used for privacy seem to have some bugs as implemented. ZEC was originally an interesting project for privacy, but it seems to have fallen under the control of questionable people as it has been pumped and…
(Headline article below) A good write up on the farce the government uses to avoid the 4th amendment, as well as the government not passing privacy legislation to protect smartphone users. And you can deny apps access to location, and…
It’s not clear how AI was used, but it does raise a concern as this is a very experienced developer. Rsync 3.4.3 is under scrutiny after backup regressions surfaced alongside wider debate over recent AI-assisted development work. By Bobby…
A couple things about this, and it’s that Google has all these hooks built into their apps for tracking you in order to implement a feature like this, so you can drop the Google apps and get opensource ones from…
Doing a first ever opensource secure element chip is difficult. But kudos to Trezor for supplying the chip and having it researched by Ledger Donjon which has found similar flaws with another secure element chip used in the Coldcard hardware…
The laziness that AI is bringing in is going to be detrimental to all entities that utilize it, and these lazy humans just aren’t going to properly vet results. And the humans coming out of university today are a problem,…
I have severe concerns with AI created code not being sufficiently vetted as it can be a source of exploits and backdoors. And the cultish rush to the Rust programming language is equally concerning for the same things. And I…
They’re ramping up their surveillance tech at an alarming rate. Personally, any business with wearable agentic AI cameras will be a no go for me. And who would want this garbage and pay for it? Was this why the push…
This is what I’ve said AI was always about, surveillance. And in one of the AI instigated suicide cases they have the conversations. And beyond this new chip, there is a black box CPU that runs under the main CPU…
It’s sad that KDE is my favorite desktop environment, as the project is being run by sexual deviants. And next year KDE version 6.8 is dropping X11 support for Wayland only, so here’s hoping SonicDE is successful. Consequently, SonicDE has…
The security audit for the Mullvad VPN Android App, which is my trusted VPN provider where you can sign up anonymously and pay with Bitcoin, Lightning or Monero for extra privacy. And they have a great Android and Linux app…
This is a wonderfully thorough write up on the quest for digital ID with all the reasons nobody wants it. And right away you can see the coordination worldwide and with the hodgepodge of state efforts in the US where…
