New Russian law criminalizes online searches for controversial content

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/07/17/russia-internet-censorship/

#ICEBlock isn’t ‘completely anonymous’

https://www.theverge.com/cyber-security/707116/iceblock-data-privacy-security-android-version

Security Vulnerabilities in ICEBlock

The ICEBlock tool has vulnerabilities:
The developer of ICEBlock, an iOS app for anonymously reporting sightings of US I... https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/07/security-vulnerabilities-in-iceblock.html

Some exciting #stigmerge updates to share!

All stigmerge peers are now seeders -- there are no #leechers in official stigmerge releases. Sharing is caring! #veilid private routing mitigates the privacy hazards normally associated with sharing content over public networks directly.

Peers gossip with each other _constantly_, advertising themselves and discovering new neighbors -- and they store these contact lists in the #veilid DHT like a pheromone trail. So even when an original seeder is long gone and goes offline -- if just one of its last-known neighbors is online, future travelers still have a chance to join a live swarm of active peers.

Fetchers can balance downloads among multiple peers, gravitating towards the most productive ones.

It's also super-easy to run stigmerge from an OCI container now (#Docker or #Podman as you like).

Check out the updated README for more details -- and the 0.5.6 release to try these new superpowers out for yourself!

https://github.com/cmars/stigmerge
https://github.com/cmars/stigmerge/releases/tag/stigmerge-v0.5.6

Hello GPT builders.

When web scrapers collect data, do they take into account whether the content is coming from an -anonymous- account or not? Does it has the same weight statistically as content created by a real account?
If so, how do you determine whether an account is real or not?

NB: hate speech, per observation, rarely comes from real accounts, given it is illegal in Europe.

#MistralAI #reputation
#anonymity #weight #LLM #scraping #GPT #ethics #hatespeech #enisa #AiAct #hallucination

@maikel basically, it boils down to the few key features of #Monero:

1. #Anonymity & #Privacy: Unlike with any other #cryptocurrency (aka. #Shitcoins) it's not just pseudonymous in that there is no mandatory linkage between individuals & their wallets, but the entire transaction history and balance is hidden. Unlike say #Bitcoin or #Ethereum one cannot track the coins from the moment of mining to their destination.

2. Speed: Monero's network does mine one block every 2 minutes. After 10 blocks any transfered balance gets unlocked for spending. That means that a transfer is completed at worst within 6 minutes and the balance is being unlocked at worst after 24 minutes. This makes it faster than Instant-#SEPA which only has a 1 hour SLA.

3. #Fungibility: Like #cash all it's coins are equal, since they cannot be tracked. This makes Monero the digital equivalent of cash.

4. #Scalability & #Stability: Monero adaptively self-adjusts block sizes and mining difficulty based upon demand (transactions in it's mempool aka. requested transactions that have to be added to the blockchain) and supply (total blockchain hashrate). Unlike Bitcoin and Ethereum it has a fixed Tail Emission Rate of at least 0,6 #XMR (Monero) per block, so the miners solving it get at least 0,6 XMR (+ transaction fees), which is a longterm stable rate. Bitcoin and Ethereum will necessitate huge transfer fees once their last coins are mined to make sense, which will result in the crash of said cryptocurrencies as they'll be too expensive to trade!

5. Anti-#ASIC and focussed on #CPU|s of general-purpose machines: Whilst it does run on #ProofOfWork, it's specifically designed to run poorly on #GPU|s and not on #ASICs as the latter one are not just manufactured #eWaste but also inherently increase the centralization (with less than a dozen big miners controlling >50% of Bitcoin and Ethereum's hashrate respectably). Thus it's the "least worst" in that regard. #ProofOfStake is not possible due to it's privacy-based setup (#Staking necessitates a public balance) and unlike a #Shitcoin like #FileCoin it doesn't incentivize #hoarding components. (in this case: #HDD|s)

6. Accepted & Convertable: Whilst there is a concerted effort to ban Monero, there are payment processors like #NowPayments that accept Monero. It's low transaction fees and good speed make it useable in settings like Restaurants and Online Stores (sadly not retail, because it would need to be like 60x faster)... And even then it's easy to convert to/from Shitcoins.

That's the #TLDW of Whiteboard Crypto, Mental Outlaw and The Hated One…

And finally:

7. Monero gets continously developed and enhanced, whereas Bitcoin, #Litecoin and Ethereum don't even do proper #upgrades via #HardForks (see #EthereumClassic)...

Sometimes LinkedIn's approach to anonymising who looks you up isn't very effective.

I wonder who that could be?

#note #socialNetworking #anonymity #wordpress #automattic #funny #stalker

Via: https://danq.me/2025/07/01/founder-at-wordpress-viewed-your-profile/

Today at the @firstdotorg conference, we’re presenting Draugnet, an open-source, lightweight submission tool designed to make sharing cyber threat intelligence easier.

With @treyka @iglocska

@misp

https://github.com/draugnet/draugnet

Going to #IGF2025 tomorrow, attending Tuesday-Thursday in person. My first time!

List of interests:
Anything authentication (passwords, pins, biometrics, MFA, FIDO WebAuthn/Passkeys)

DNS & Email security

BGP/RPKI deployment

#security
#privacy
#anonymity
Freedom of speech
#Democracy

#Reddit is considering using #WorldID, an iris-scanning #verification system, to verify user #uniqueness while maintaining #anonymity: amidst concerns about #AIgeneratedcontent and #ageverificationlaws. https://www.semafor.com/article/06/20/2025/reddit-considers-iris-scanning-orb-developed-by-a-sam-altman-startup

𝐀𝐠𝐞 𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐖𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐅𝐚𝐜𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐜𝐲

https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/05/06/age-verification-wants-your-face

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#privacy #anonymity #internet #infosec #cybersecurity #government #News #freedom

Thanks to everyone who joined our Tor Operator AMA on Reddit and Mastodon! Your questions helped highlight the challenges and rewards of running Tor relays, but also highlighted the importance of Tor relays for online privacy.

The Tor network thrives on its community of operators. If you're thinking of running a relay, join the operators channel on Matrix/IRC, mailing list, or forums. We're there to help you get started!

Join us today for an Ask Me Anything (AMA) session with experienced large-scale Tor operators!

Whether you're a privacy advocate, a network enthusiast, a developer, or just curious – we want to hear from you :).

Post your questions on Mastodon by using #TorOps or on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/TOR/comments/1la9zgw/tor_operators_ask_me_anything/.

"Isabela Fernandes believes free, open-source software has helped build the internet, and will be key to improving it for all. As executive director of the Tor Project – the nonprofit behind the decentralized, onion-routing network providing crucial online anonymity to activists and dissidents around the world – she has fought tirelessly for everyone to have private access to an uncensored internet, and Tor has become one of the world's strongest tools for privacy and freedom online.

Fernandes joins EFF’s Cindy Cohn and Jason Kelley to discuss the importance of not just accepting technology as it’s given to us, but collaboratively breaking it, tinkering with it, and rebuilding it together until it becomes the technology that we really need to make our world a better place.

In this episode you’ll learn about:

- How the Tor network protects the anonymity of internet users around the world, and why that’s so important
- Why online privacy is NOT only for “people who have something to hide”
- The importance of making more websites friendly and accessible to Tor and similar systems
- How Tor can actually benefit law enforcement
- How free, open-source software can power economic booms"

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/podcast-episode-why-three-tors-magic-number

Reading scientific reports about Monero's environmental impact.

If anyone knows any further about this, I'm open for an unbiased talk about this topic, I would like to learn more.

Infomaniak backs mass surveillance, aims to end online anonymity in Switzerland

https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/psa-infomaniak-supports-mass-surveillance-calling-for-legal-change-to-end-online-anonymity-mandatory-metadata-retention/28065