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Dwell in Seattle. Love blue teaming, red team shenanigans, tech, privacy, comedy, and coffee. twitter.com/elguaposghost05
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torproject.org
Our annual State of the Onion starts in less than 24 hours, be sure to join our broadcast Nov 12, 1700 UTC on 📺 YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTDt...
🧅 or Tor Browser as an Onion Service: xgsobitduxv7gcc5qlveigwiku7qcjn5exf4ayusw4mwq7kfrapmrjyd.onion
State of the Onion 2025
YouTube video by The Tor Project
www.youtube.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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torproject.org
SAVE THE DATE
White text on dark background: 2025 - State of the Onion The Tor Project: November 12th @ 17:00 UTC Community Day: December 10th @ 17:00 UTC
October 27, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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evacide.bsky.social
People are very lucky that I do not write the headlines for these stories because there is no way I could write a headline for a story about a surveillance company called First Wap without turning it into a Megan Thee Stallion joke: revealnews.org/podcast/cell...
A young reporter discovers a mysterious trove of data that exposes a global surveillance empire.
In a major investigation, a young reporter uncovers a powerful technology used to spy on thousands of people across the world.
revealnews.org
October 19, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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freedom.press
🚨 PSA: Do you have information to share with news outlets that have lost access to report from the Pentagon?

You can share it while protecting your anonymity using @securedrop.org:
Instructions on how to submit a news tip anonymously through SecureDrop: - Start from a place with public Wi-Fi, like a coffee shop. Use a computer you control. Never use a workplace computer. - Download and install Tor Browser from torproject.org and use it to visit howto.securedrop.tor.onion for next steps.
October 14, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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agreenberg.bsky.social
Researchers pointed a satellite dish at the sky for 3 years and monitored what unencrypted data it picked up. The results were shocking: They obtained thousands of T-Mobile users' phone calls and texts, military and law enforcement secrets, much more: www.wired.com/story/satell... 🧵👇
Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data
With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypte...
www.wired.com
October 14, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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fivek.bsky.social
September 30, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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rayhunter.eff.org
Rayhunter 0.7.0 is out!

Get it here: github.com/EFForg/rayhu...
Release Rayhunter v0.7.0 · EFForg/rayhunter
Major Changes notifications for low battery level over ntfy (for users with an active sim plan) several bugfixes filter to only see runs with warnings view logs in web UI What's Changed Fix link...
github.com
September 24, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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warren.senate.gov
"Last time I went after them, they gave me $16 Million Dollars. This one sounds even more lucrative.”

Bowing down to a bully never works.

And we can’t become numb to this corruption in plain sight.
September 24, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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warren.senate.gov
I don’t always agree with Chair Powell – but he is right.

Prices are up 2.9% from last month. And they’re higher than they were a year ago.

Why?

Donald Trump’s chaotic tariff policies.
September 24, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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philplait.bsky.social
JFC
August 11, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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nicholasgrossman.bsky.social
mRNA vaccines are, without exaggeration, one of the greatest inventions in human history.

We basically hacked our immune systems. “Here’s the secret code for this new virus, prep to fight exactly that.” A promising avenue for addressing some cancers too.

And the US is throwing it away. For what?
August 7, 2025 at 7:55 PM
elguaposghost.bsky.social
m.youtube.com/watch?v=lmAd...
Masked Federal Agents Are Operating Without Oversight & It's Happening in America
YouTube video by Adam Kinzinger
m.youtube.com
August 3, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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hacks4pancakes.com
And over at @pancakescon.com we are still looking for NA / EU time submissions! Get your CFP in in the next two weeks before we both close!!!
July 27, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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medus4.com
Hey, so- big news! Gibson and I will be speaking at Crypto&Privacy village at @defcon.bsky.social

Our talk, "Veilid la Revoluçion" will cover the things we learned debuting a community driven privacy project- both technical and human, along with lessons learned from those who came before us
July 15, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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igorsushko.bsky.social
Ukraine can defeat Russia, liberate all its territory and stop the Russian threat against Europe and beyond.
Ukrainians are not even asking us to spill the blood of our soldiers.
We must unleash our arsenal for democracy and arm Ukraine to win.
July 5, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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shehackspurple.bsky.social
I'm giving a 1-Day paid, live Training at OWASP Global AppSec in Washington DC, November 5th, 2025: API Security: Hands-On Secure API Design & Hardening

Learn more here! https://twp.ai/9PTINH

#OWASP #OWASPGLOBALAPPSEC
July 4, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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socialistdogmom.bsky.social
i need everyone in the white house press pool to ask karoline leavitt if the president thinks joe biden is a clone or a robot. he can’t be both! we need to know which one he thinks it is.
June 1, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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philhagen.com
If you’re able, please consider donating to this important cause! Correcting the imbalance of women in the cybersecurity industry is an important priority. Thanks to Rachel for running this fundraiser!!
racheltobac.bsky.social Rachel Tobac @racheltobac.bsky.social · May 19
I just donated $1,000 to send 1 WISP (Women in Security and Privacy) scholar to DEF CON, etc!
The 1st person to match me is @0xTib3rius -- thank you so much!!
The goal is 45 scholars covered total & we have 2 so far!
You can write this off on your taxes ◡̈
wisporg.app.neoncrm.com/forms/hacker...
Hacker Summer Camp Donation Form
Women in Security and Privacy (WISP)’s Hacker Summer Camp scholarship aims to increase representation in the cybersecurity field by providing opportunities for women and underrepresented folks to atte...
wisporg.app.neoncrm.com
May 23, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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robinh2.bsky.social
This‼️
A heartfelt "fuck you" to everyone who told me I was overreacting in November 2016.
May 28, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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deviantollam.bsky.social
I know that loads of you have been following the story of my dear friend Kara who has been in the hellish federal system for over a year now.

There is a big hearing happening tomorrow, Thursday the 29th, at 10:00 a.m. and you can listen in...

www.ca2.uscourts.gov

...you showing support HELPS 🧵
A pair of hands is seen holding bars, as if from inside of a cell, and the bars are colored in the trans flag blue, pink, and white
May 28, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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igorsushko.bsky.social
🔥 Russia: Factory of the defense contractor Avangard is on fire in Saint Petersburg.
The company makes components for air defense systems.
May 29, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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tc.superteece.com
Veilid v0.4.6 is out!

This is a HUGE release. Very girthy, some might say (@medus4.com specifically said this).

✅ Debian packages updated
✅ RPM packages updated
✅ Pypi updated
✅ Rust Crates updated

See gitlab.com/veilid/veili...
gitlab.com
May 17, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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mguariglia.bsky.social
In 49 states and at the federal level, police can (unconstitutionally) buy your geolocation data (often harvested from smartphone apps) from advertising data brokers and bypass getting a warrant from a judge for it.

Montana has become the first state to close this loophole.
Montana Becomes First State to Close the Law Enforcement Data Broker Loophole
Montana has done something that many states and the United States Congress have debated but failed to do: it has just enacted the first attempt to close the dreaded, invasive, unconstitutional, but ea...
www.eff.org
May 14, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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patrick.risky.biz
Just interviewed the Vice Chair of the Senate Select Committee on intelligence, Mark Warner. Long conversation, will publish in a couple of days.
May 5, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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ericcolumbus.bsky.social
🚨🚨 Deranged letter from Education Secretary Linda McMahon to Harvard’s president, cutting off federal funding for any new grants.

Worth reading in full. It is NUTS.
THE SECRETARY OF EDUCATION WASHINGTON, DC 20202 May 5, 2025 Dr. Alan Garber Office of the President Harvard University Massachusetts Hall Cambridge, MA 02138 Dr. Garber, The Federal Government has a sacred responsibility to be a wise and important steward of American taxpayer dollars. Harvard University, despite amassing a largely tax-free $53.2 billion dollar endowment (larger than the GDP of 100 countries), receives billions of dollars of taxpayer largess each year. Receiving such taxpayer funds is a privilege, not a right. Yet instead of using these funds to advance the education of its students, Harvard is engaging in a systemic pattern of violating federal law. Where do many of these "students" come from, who are they, how do they get into Harvard, or even into our country—and why is there so much HATE? These are questions that must be answered, among many more, but the biggest question of all is, why will Harvard not give straightforward answers to the American public? Harvard University has made a mockery of this country's higher education system. It has invited foreign students, who engage in violent behavior and show contempt for the United States of America, to its campus. In every way, Harvard has failed to abide by its legal obligations, its ethical and fiduciary duties, its transparency responsibilities, and any semblance of academic rigor. It had scrapped standardized testing requirements and a normalized grading system. This year Harvard was forced to adopt an embarrassing "remedial math" program for undergraduates. Why is it, we ask, that Harvard has to teach simple and basic mathematics, when it is supposedly so hard to get into this "acclaimed university"? Who is getting in under such a low standard when others, with fabulous grades and a great understanding of the highest levels of mathematics, are being rejected? Harvard has even been embroiled in humiliating plagiarism scandals, exposed clearly and plainly in the media, with respect to your then… running the institution in a totally chaotic way. Harvard alumnus and highly successful hedge fund manager Bill Ackman noted that, under her leadership, Harvard has become "a political advocacy organization for one party." Ackman has called for the resignation of Pritzker, concluding that the "[t)he mismanagement here is Penny Pritzker" and noting that any serious corporation would have removed her after a litany of recent failings and the fact that, incredibly, "Harvard is not in a good financial position." According to Ackman, one of the world's foremost finance experts, Harvard's so-called S53 billion endowment is "massively overstated as far as what it's really worth," and Harvard has irresponsibly taken out $8 billion in debt. If this is true, it is concerning evidence of Harvard's disastrous mismanagement, indicating an urgent need for massive reform-not continued taxpayer investment. If Harvard prefers not to change, then Harvard should have no problem using its overflowing endowment to fund its bloated bureaucracy. At its best, a university should fulfill the highest ideals of our Nation, and enlighten the thousands of hopeful students who walk through its magnificent gates. But Harvard has betrayed this ideal. Perhaps most alarmingly, Harvard has failed to abide by the United States Supreme Court's ruling demanding that it end its racial preferencing, and continues to engage in ugly racism in its undergraduate and graduate schools, and even within the Harvard Law Review itself. Our universities should be bastions of merit that reward and celebrate excellence and achievement. They should not be incubators of discrimination that encourage resentment and instill grievance and racism into our wonderful young Americans. The above concerns are only a fraction of the long list of Harvard's consistent violations of its own legal duties. Given these and other concerning allegations, this letter is to inform you that Harvard should no longer seek GRANTS from the fede… Federal Agencies. The Administration's priorities have not changed and today's letter marks the end of new grants for the University. These requests will advance the best interests of Harvard University, so it can reclaim its status as a respected educational institution for the future leaders of America. Thank you for your attention to this matter! Sincerely, Linda E. McMahon Secretary of Education
May 6, 2025 at 12:27 AM