Category Tech

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…

Debian 13 Set to Launch on August 9

At the moment on my desktop I switch between Debian 12 and Debian Unstable, which is in effect Debian 13 and great by the way. There wasn’t much reason to run Testing any longer as it isn’t very different from…

Avoid Hertz’s AI-Powered Rental Car Scanners

Hertz using AI to scam customers. Consequently, Hertz is notorious for getting renters erroneously arrested by reporting vehicles as stolen, charging them for gas erroneously, charging a customer $10k for driving too many miles on unlimited mileage rental… By…

Tornado Cash: Criminalizing Code

The bigger conclusion one could make beyond the government wanting to make sure they’re able to surveil financial transactions, is to protect the OCGFC bankers and their business of laundering money for organized crime through the actual banks and financial…

ChatGPT Brain Rot Is Real (And Getting Worse)

My only issue with this video is the premise that adults before AI have critical thinking skills already. People have been cheating their way through school for quite some time with grabbing or buying assignments online since the internet ramped…