Sam_Bent
@doingfedtime.bsky.social
ExDarknet Vendor/Market Admin/Buyer, Author, YouTuber, Paralegal, Hacker, DefCon/SANS speaker, podcaster, OSINT & OPSEC Specialist, and Content Creator
Mullvad Hides VPN Traffic Inside HTTPS With QUIC Obfuscation
YouTube video by Sam Bent
www.youtube.com
October 26, 2025 at 12:54 AM
The I2P Ecosystem Explodes: Multiple
New Router Implementations Signal a Privacy Revolution.
www.sambent.com/the-i2p-ecos...
New Router Implementations Signal a Privacy Revolution.
www.sambent.com/the-i2p-ecos...
The I2P Ecosystem Explodes: Multiple New Router Implementations Signal a Privacy Revolution
The Invisible Internet Project (I2P) just announced something remarkable: multiple new, fully-functioning I2P router prototypes have emerged, marking a pivotal moment for privacy-focused networking.
www.sambent.com
October 23, 2025 at 2:32 AM
The I2P Ecosystem Explodes: Multiple
New Router Implementations Signal a Privacy Revolution.
www.sambent.com/the-i2p-ecos...
New Router Implementations Signal a Privacy Revolution.
www.sambent.com/the-i2p-ecos...
California just mandated that police must disclose when artificial intelligence writes their reports, and vendors are banned from selling the data they collect. (and why it doesn't matter)
www.sambent.com/california-f...
www.sambent.com/california-f...
California Forces Police to Disclose AI-Written Reports
California just mandated that police must disclose when artificial intelligence writes their reports, and vendors are banned from selling the data they collect. (and why it doesn't matter)
www.sambent.com
October 15, 2025 at 4:53 PM
California just mandated that police must disclose when artificial intelligence writes their reports, and vendors are banned from selling the data they collect. (and why it doesn't matter)
www.sambent.com/california-f...
www.sambent.com/california-f...
The privacy OS now opens Tor Browser to a local page instead of phoning home (why did it do that before?),
while patching critical vulnerabilities and fixing confusing errors.
www.sambent.com/tails-7-1-dr...
while patching critical vulnerabilities and fixing confusing errors.
www.sambent.com/tails-7-1-dr...
Tails 7.1 Drops Browser Home Phoning, Updates Tor Stack
The privacy OS now opens Tor Browser to a local page instead of phoning home, while patching critical vulnerabilities and fixing confusing error messages.
www.sambent.com
October 14, 2025 at 1:30 PM
The privacy OS now opens Tor Browser to a local page instead of phoning home (why did it do that before?),
while patching critical vulnerabilities and fixing confusing errors.
www.sambent.com/tails-7-1-dr...
while patching critical vulnerabilities and fixing confusing errors.
www.sambent.com/tails-7-1-dr...
www.sambent.com/domain-front...
Domain Fronting: How Censors Killed Privacy on the Cloud
By putting one domain in the TLS handshake and another in the HTTP header,
domain fronting made Signal unstoppable in
Egypt, Oman, and UAE until corporations caved to authoritarian pressure.
Domain Fronting: How Censors Killed Privacy on the Cloud
By putting one domain in the TLS handshake and another in the HTTP header,
domain fronting made Signal unstoppable in
Egypt, Oman, and UAE until corporations caved to authoritarian pressure.
Domain Fronting: How Censors Killed Privacy on the Cloud
By putting one domain in the TLS handshake and another in the HTTP header, domain fronting made Signal unstoppable in Egypt, Oman, and UAE—until corporations caved to authoritarian pressure.
www.sambent.com
October 14, 2025 at 12:34 PM
www.sambent.com/domain-front...
Domain Fronting: How Censors Killed Privacy on the Cloud
By putting one domain in the TLS handshake and another in the HTTP header,
domain fronting made Signal unstoppable in
Egypt, Oman, and UAE until corporations caved to authoritarian pressure.
Domain Fronting: How Censors Killed Privacy on the Cloud
By putting one domain in the TLS handshake and another in the HTTP header,
domain fronting made Signal unstoppable in
Egypt, Oman, and UAE until corporations caved to authoritarian pressure.
On a scale of one to 10, this happens to you after you spent this much money...
how pissed are you?
how pissed are you?
October 13, 2025 at 3:47 PM
On a scale of one to 10, this happens to you after you spent this much money...
how pissed are you?
how pissed are you?
www.sambent.com/based-monero...
Based: Monero Fights 40% Network Spy Nodes with Subnet Filter.
The new release implements /24 subnet filtering to disadvantage spy nodes that have been attempting transaction-to-IP correlation since October 2020.
Based: Monero Fights 40% Network Spy Nodes with Subnet Filter.
The new release implements /24 subnet filtering to disadvantage spy nodes that have been attempting transaction-to-IP correlation since October 2020.
Based: Monero Fights 40% Network Spy Nodes with Subnet Filter
The new release implements /24 subnet filtering to disadvantage spy nodes that have been attempting transaction-to-IP correlation since October 2020.
www.sambent.com
October 9, 2025 at 8:30 PM
www.sambent.com/based-monero...
Based: Monero Fights 40% Network Spy Nodes with Subnet Filter.
The new release implements /24 subnet filtering to disadvantage spy nodes that have been attempting transaction-to-IP correlation since October 2020.
Based: Monero Fights 40% Network Spy Nodes with Subnet Filter.
The new release implements /24 subnet filtering to disadvantage spy nodes that have been attempting transaction-to-IP correlation since October 2020.
My site that lists these and tells you the status of them is:
darkwebdaily.live
dailydwusclfsu7fzwydc5emidexnesmdlzqmz2dxnx5x4thl42vj4qd.onion
darkwebdaily.live
dailydwusclfsu7fzwydc5emidexnesmdlzqmz2dxnx5x4thl42vj4qd.onion
October 8, 2025 at 1:01 PM
My site that lists these and tells you the status of them is:
darkwebdaily.live
dailydwusclfsu7fzwydc5emidexnesmdlzqmz2dxnx5x4thl42vj4qd.onion
darkwebdaily.live
dailydwusclfsu7fzwydc5emidexnesmdlzqmz2dxnx5x4thl42vj4qd.onion
Tor Browser 14.5.8 shipped with critical security fixes backported from Firefox 144,
plus updates to core anonymity infrastructure.
The Tor Project released the update on its download page and distribution directory.
www.sambent.com/tor-browser-...
plus updates to core anonymity infrastructure.
The Tor Project released the update on its download page and distribution directory.
www.sambent.com/tor-browser-...
Tor Browser 14.5.8 Fixes Firefox Bugs and Snowflake Bridges
Tor Browser 14.5.8 shipped with critical security fixes backported from Firefox 144, plus updates to core anonymity infrastructure. The Tor Project released the update on its download page and distrib...
www.sambent.com
October 8, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Tor Browser 14.5.8 shipped with critical security fixes backported from Firefox 144,
plus updates to core anonymity infrastructure.
The Tor Project released the update on its download page and distribution directory.
www.sambent.com/tor-browser-...
plus updates to core anonymity infrastructure.
The Tor Project released the update on its download page and distribution directory.
www.sambent.com/tor-browser-...
Run your own: Self-host.
Fund your own: Stack XMR/Real assets
Answer to no one.
Stop watching the propaganda.
"The people are ultimately subordinate to government,
not the other way around,
and that inversion of power is the problem."
- Edward Snowden
Fund your own: Stack XMR/Real assets
Answer to no one.
Stop watching the propaganda.
"The people are ultimately subordinate to government,
not the other way around,
and that inversion of power is the problem."
- Edward Snowden
September 28, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Run your own: Self-host.
Fund your own: Stack XMR/Real assets
Answer to no one.
Stop watching the propaganda.
"The people are ultimately subordinate to government,
not the other way around,
and that inversion of power is the problem."
- Edward Snowden
Fund your own: Stack XMR/Real assets
Answer to no one.
Stop watching the propaganda.
"The people are ultimately subordinate to government,
not the other way around,
and that inversion of power is the problem."
- Edward Snowden
Monero-Oxide Bug Bounty
While the IRS burned $625,000 trying to crack Monero's privacy in 2020,
the community is now investing serious money to make sure nobody ever can.
www.sambent.com/monero-oxide...
While the IRS burned $625,000 trying to crack Monero's privacy in 2020,
the community is now investing serious money to make sure nobody ever can.
www.sambent.com/monero-oxide...
Monero-Oxide Bug Bounty: Privacy Code Gets Real Money Behind It
While the IRS burned $625,000 trying to crack Monero's privacy in 2020, the community is now investing serious money to make sure nobody ever can.
www.sambent.com
September 26, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Monero-Oxide Bug Bounty
While the IRS burned $625,000 trying to crack Monero's privacy in 2020,
the community is now investing serious money to make sure nobody ever can.
www.sambent.com/monero-oxide...
While the IRS burned $625,000 trying to crack Monero's privacy in 2020,
the community is now investing serious money to make sure nobody ever can.
www.sambent.com/monero-oxide...
Why You Never Rob Cancer Patients in Front of the Internet,
AND Why Steam Sucks,
And the People Who Hunted the Thief down
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOrj...
AND Why Steam Sucks,
And the People Who Hunted the Thief down
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOrj...
Why You Never Rob Cancer Patients in Front of the Internet, AND Why Steam Sucks
YouTube video by Sam Bent
www.youtube.com
September 22, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Why You Never Rob Cancer Patients in Front of the Internet,
AND Why Steam Sucks,
And the People Who Hunted the Thief down
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOrj...
AND Why Steam Sucks,
And the People Who Hunted the Thief down
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOrj...
Happy 23rd Birthday Tor.
September 20, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Happy 23rd Birthday Tor.
OnionMasq creates VPN-like behavior by trapping applications in kernel-isolated sandboxes where only Tor-routed network interfaces exist, eliminating the bypass vulnerabilities that plague proxy-based solutions.
Based.
www.sambent.com/onionmasq-to...
Based.
www.sambent.com/onionmasq-to...
September 19, 2025 at 2:38 PM
OnionMasq creates VPN-like behavior by trapping applications in kernel-isolated sandboxes where only Tor-routed network interfaces exist, eliminating the bypass vulnerabilities that plague proxy-based solutions.
Based.
www.sambent.com/onionmasq-to...
Based.
www.sambent.com/onionmasq-to...
Monero's Atomic Units: How Privacy Money Scales from Piconeros to Meganeros
www.sambent.com/moneros-atom...
#xmr #monero #crypto
www.sambent.com/moneros-atom...
#xmr #monero #crypto
September 18, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Monero's Atomic Units: How Privacy Money Scales from Piconeros to Meganeros
www.sambent.com/moneros-atom...
#xmr #monero #crypto
www.sambent.com/moneros-atom...
#xmr #monero #crypto
Remember when the CIA recommended using Signal (quote on blog)?
Signal just launched paid backups designed by Facebook's former surveillance architect. The same company that stored desktop keys in plaintext for 6 years,wants to store your messages on their servers.
https://youtu.be/lxNOpIwjTxo
Signal just launched paid backups designed by Facebook's former surveillance architect. The same company that stored desktop keys in plaintext for 6 years,wants to store your messages on their servers.
https://youtu.be/lxNOpIwjTxo
September 12, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Remember when the CIA recommended using Signal (quote on blog)?
Signal just launched paid backups designed by Facebook's former surveillance architect. The same company that stored desktop keys in plaintext for 6 years,wants to store your messages on their servers.
https://youtu.be/lxNOpIwjTxo
Signal just launched paid backups designed by Facebook's former surveillance architect. The same company that stored desktop keys in plaintext for 6 years,wants to store your messages on their servers.
https://youtu.be/lxNOpIwjTxo
Cloud password managers aren't protecting your data, they're collecting it for profit while making you the product in a surveillance economy that profits from your digital enslavement.
https://www.sambent.com/vaultwarden-deployment-self-hosted-password-manager-hardening/
https://www.sambent.com/vaultwarden-deployment-self-hosted-password-manager-hardening/
September 11, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Cloud password managers aren't protecting your data, they're collecting it for profit while making you the product in a surveillance economy that profits from your digital enslavement.
https://www.sambent.com/vaultwarden-deployment-self-hosted-password-manager-hardening/
https://www.sambent.com/vaultwarden-deployment-self-hosted-password-manager-hardening/
No man is good enough to govern another man
without that other man’s consent.
- Abraham Lincoln
-
"Mass Extraction
The Widespread Power of U.S. Law Enforcement to Search Mobile Phones"
https://www.upturn.org/work/mass-extraction/
without that other man’s consent.
- Abraham Lincoln
-
"Mass Extraction
The Widespread Power of U.S. Law Enforcement to Search Mobile Phones"
https://www.upturn.org/work/mass-extraction/
September 10, 2025 at 6:10 PM
No man is good enough to govern another man
without that other man’s consent.
- Abraham Lincoln
-
"Mass Extraction
The Widespread Power of U.S. Law Enforcement to Search Mobile Phones"
https://www.upturn.org/work/mass-extraction/
without that other man’s consent.
- Abraham Lincoln
-
"Mass Extraction
The Widespread Power of U.S. Law Enforcement to Search Mobile Phones"
https://www.upturn.org/work/mass-extraction/
BGPStream enables automated BGP hijack detection through real-time routing analysis and CLI automation that identifies prefix hijacking and generates security alerts for network operators.
https://www.sambent.com/bgpstream-hijack-detection-automated-prefix-monitoring-and-alerts/
https://www.sambent.com/bgpstream-hijack-detection-automated-prefix-monitoring-and-alerts/
September 10, 2025 at 1:01 PM
BGPStream enables automated BGP hijack detection through real-time routing analysis and CLI automation that identifies prefix hijacking and generates security alerts for network operators.
https://www.sambent.com/bgpstream-hijack-detection-automated-prefix-monitoring-and-alerts/
https://www.sambent.com/bgpstream-hijack-detection-automated-prefix-monitoring-and-alerts/
Brave Browser handles 94 million users monthly with zero dependency on Google or Microsoft servers, and Big Tech should be terrified of what this proves.
https://www.sambent.com/monero-ring-size-evolution-privacy-performance-trade-offs/
https://www.sambent.com/monero-ring-size-evolution-privacy-performance-trade-offs/
September 9, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Brave Browser handles 94 million users monthly with zero dependency on Google or Microsoft servers, and Big Tech should be terrified of what this proves.
https://www.sambent.com/monero-ring-size-evolution-privacy-performance-trade-offs/
https://www.sambent.com/monero-ring-size-evolution-privacy-performance-trade-offs/
This 1975 paper established "least privilege" and "defense in depth"
as foundational security concepts.
as foundational security concepts.
September 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
This 1975 paper established "least privilege" and "defense in depth"
as foundational security concepts.
as foundational security concepts.
Most ECDH implementations contain fatal flaws that let attackers recover private keys through mathematical manipulation.
https://www.sambent.com/ecdh-security-theater-why-most-implementations-fail/
https://www.sambent.com/ecdh-security-theater-why-most-implementations-fail/
September 5, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Most ECDH implementations contain fatal flaws that let attackers recover private keys through mathematical manipulation.
https://www.sambent.com/ecdh-security-theater-why-most-implementations-fail/
https://www.sambent.com/ecdh-security-theater-why-most-implementations-fail/
Thompson (back in 1984!) shows how to create
self-replicating trojans at the compiler level
that survive source code audits.
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_ReflectionsonTrustingTrust.pdf
self-replicating trojans at the compiler level
that survive source code audits.
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_ReflectionsonTrustingTrust.pdf
September 4, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Thompson (back in 1984!) shows how to create
self-replicating trojans at the compiler level
that survive source code audits.
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_ReflectionsonTrustingTrust.pdf
self-replicating trojans at the compiler level
that survive source code audits.
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_ReflectionsonTrustingTrust.pdf