a desire for privacy is not an indication of wrong doing.

Digitization and AI have erased the costs that once protected our privacy. A new generation of cryptography is bringing them back. Peer-to-Peer's first guest post. From @GoBankYourself p2p.coincenter.org/p/enginee…

At long last, we have given Claude a wet lab, as in the classic sci-fi novel Don't Give Claude a Wet Lab.

We’re so terrified of AI derived bio threats that we are quietly giving our AI control of a wet lab in the middle of a major metro area What the fuck man

JENSEN HUANG: “If you build a product or a service and you're not confident in its functionality, capability, or safety, then don't release it … The market forces are already there. We don't need any new laws. We don't need new regulations.”

Engineers spent decades shrinking semiconductor process nodes from around 1,000nm to today’s 2nm class so you could carry absurd amounts of computing power in your pocket. Software developers responded with megabytes of JavaScript, telemetry trackers, six frameworks, and a loading animation for the login page. Hardware gives. Software takes away.

iOS 27 breaks DNS based adblockers such as @NextDNS, @AdGuard or Pi-hole unless you disable connectivity assist. Spread the word! Settings > Wi-Fi > Connectivity Assist

"we're going to decentralize once the protocol is mature"

Why do we spend all this time theorizing about how AI could harm us when we have endless examples in history of humans w/ centralized power doing immense harm. That's your danger. That's your xrisk.

They want to scare everyone so open source gets banned and they can have better margins while keeping you "safe" It's an insidious tactic for them to secure more control, and in reality this resulting overconcentration of power is the real risk that has a historical precedent for abuse

If you’re concerned about the 153M drivers licenses in the IDScan leak, this is what you should do now! Assume you’re in it, but you likely have more important vulnerabilities to address. The reality is that your info is probably much easier to access right now through a quick Google search and leaky apps than any leaked data on the dark web. If you google your own address and easily find it associated with your name, phone, and family members then everyone else can too. Address this problem first. Enroll in a PII removal service to get your info off data broker sites and then routinely search for your data. Next thing: the apps on your phone and other platforms you’re signed up for are likely broadcasting all kinds of other more sensitive data about locations you frequent, where your kids go to school and who has access to your house. This IS in your control and you need to lock it down. Conduct an audit of privacy settings on your apps to ensure your entire life isn’t publicly accessible. If you do these two things today, you and your family will be safer. The leak is huge and you might be in it, but right now you need to focus on what you can control to make yourself more secure.

👀🚨 AXON is accessing images of DRIVER'S LICENSES and IDENTITY DOCUMENTS through ACEIP without the consent of the individuals depicted, and using those photographs to train AI models Government -issued identity documents containing: • Full legal names • Dates of birth • Addresses • Driver's license numbers • Photographs (biometric identifiers) • State of issuance —- Not only this 👀🚨 Axon's ACEIP program is a data harvesting operation that uses the monopoly power established through the Vievu acquisition to compel police departments into sharing citizen surveillance data for commercial AI development.🚨👀 1. Axon acquired Vievu in 2018, consolidating the (body camera market) 2. The FTC challenged this as anticompetitive 3. After the FTC case was dismissed, Axon used its dominant market position to implement ACEIP 4. ACEIP gives Axon access to Customer Content - including ALPR images, body camera footage, transcripts, and identity documents 5. Police departments cannot realistically refuse to participate in ACEIP because Axon is the dominant provider of body camera systems 6. Axon uses this data to train proprietary AI models 7. The AI models become Axon's exclusive commercial property 8. The citizens whose data feeds the models never consented —— Axon's ACEIP portal confirms they access 🚨🚨👀 Detect Error Cases of ALPR and SOR" - active since February 2026. It says Axon accesses "ALPR data entries from customer database, which contains: (1) images captured by Fleet / Outpost camera, (2) ALPR read result and metrics, (3) user-correction, and (4) state level location of the reads."⬅️ "State level location of the reads" - 👀🚨 this means Axon is accessing the state-level geographic location of every ALPR read. Not just the time and date, but the state-level location. This means Axon knows which state each ALPR read came from.⬅️⬅️👀 Now connect this to the "Automatic License Plate Recognition (ALPR) System Improvement" use case, active since October 2022: "License plate images captured by a users Fleet Camera and the associated ALPR Read Record such as date and time of the capture, and geographical location." "Geographical location" - not just state-level, but precise geographical location. So Axon has been accessing:👀🚨 1. License plate images 2. Date and time of capture 3. Geographical location of capture 4. ALPR read results and metrics 5. User corrections From every participating police department since October 2022. That is nearly 4 years of continuous access to license plate images and location data from police departments across the country. axon.com/aceip-law-enfo… ftc.gov/legal-library/ @RepThomasMassie

ID verification strikes again! 2 days ago 153M driver licenses in US+CA leaked and are now up for sale on a Russian cybercrime forum. When you give a company your personal information (eventually) it will leak. krebsonsecurity.com/2026/09/…

FYI: you’re likely in the database. I’m really tired of this. The world worked just fine when someone would just look at your ID rather than scanning it and storing it in some unknown database somewhere that’s immediately hacked by threat actors. The same goes for KYC and AML, they didn’t stop anything. There’s still money laundering lol, they just made it easier to steal your identity. The government should be sued for mandating this, the company that didn’t secure the data should be sued, and every business that used this service to offload the responsibility should be sued.

Ironically, current anti-fraud processes (i.e., customer identification and verification, or “KYC”) actually empower fraudulent activity by handing criminals your sensitive information on a silver platter.

We are long, long, long overdue to reduce the amount of KYC we do as a society. It doesn’t stop crime. It enables mass surveillance of the innocent by the tyrannical. And, perhaps most of all, it enriches hackers with troves of intimate personal data. p2p.coincenter.org/p/the-hug…

Halfway in this podcast we talk about how today its "check box over 18 as mandatory OS feature" tomorrow its "KYC" and "KYC" right now just means send us a picture of your driver's license, we promise we won't lose it to hackers (but we will). Lo and behold just a week later...

The most short-sighted assumption of the past 25 years has been that we can discard physical libraries because everything is digital and always will be. But the digital vanishes like smoke & knowledge is rapidly disappearing from the web. You have to invest in physical media.

RT @TaylorLorenz: Meta's $17 billion settlement with the states is all over the news, and almost every story misleads the public on what th…

Being called a criminal in the comments and saying I have something to hide. Yeah you are right, I have bunch of things to hide, I do not want the Government seeing images of every moment I have, where I went, where I am going etc etc. I work at 2 privacy companies (Obscura VPN/Brave Browser) and I've helped a bunch on the side, I've donated to bunch of money to privacy advocacy groups such as EFF, Tor and more. Does that make me a criminal in your eyes? That's up to you. Do I have something to hide? Yes. Bunch of things actually and I want to keep it hidden. Privacy is a human right believe that I have and I try my best to make that a reality, it is hard work, it takes time but it is possible.

RT @TaylorLorenz: They’re trying to fully break encryption as well and criminalize encrypted messaging. Anyone who believes any of this is…