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Sam_Bent @doingfedtime.bsky.social · 1h

The I2P Ecosystem Explodes: Multiple

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

Sam_Bent @doingfedtime.bsky.social · 7d

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...

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

Sam_Bent @doingfedtime.bsky.social · 8d

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...

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

Sam_Bent @doingfedtime.bsky.social · 8d

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.

www.sambent.com

Sam_Bent @doingfedtime.bsky.social · 9d

On a scale of one to 10, this happens to you after you spent this much money...

how pissed are you?

Sam_Bent @doingfedtime.bsky.social · 13d

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.

www.sambent.com

Sam_Bent @doingfedtime.bsky.social · 14d

My site that lists these and tells you the status of them is:
darkwebdaily.live

dailydwusclfsu7fzwydc5emidexnesmdlzqmz2dxnx5x4thl42vj4qd.onion

Sam_Bent @doingfedtime.bsky.social · 15d

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-...

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

Sam_Bent @doingfedtime.bsky.social · 24d

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

Sam_Bent @doingfedtime.bsky.social · 26d

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...

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

Sam_Bent @doingfedtime.bsky.social · 27d

Do you know?

Sam_Bent @doingfedtime.bsky.social · Sep 22

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...

Why You Never Rob Cancer Patients in Front of the Internet, AND Why Steam Sucks

YouTube video by Sam Bent

www.youtube.com

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Sam_Bent @doingfedtime.bsky.social · Sep 20

Happy 23rd Birthday Tor.

Sam_Bent @doingfedtime.bsky.social · Sep 19

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...

Sam_Bent @doingfedtime.bsky.social · Sep 18

Monero's Atomic Units: How Privacy Money Scales from Piconeros to Meganeros
www.sambent.com/moneros-atom...
#xmr #monero #crypto

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Sam_Bent @doingfedtime.bsky.social · Sep 16

Who's forcing you to use brave?

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Sam_Bent @doingfedtime.bsky.social · Sep 12

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

Sam_Bent @doingfedtime.bsky.social · Sep 11

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/

Sam_Bent @doingfedtime.bsky.social · Sep 10

Who's forcing you to use brave?
Exactly.

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Sam_Bent @doingfedtime.bsky.social · Sep 10

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/

Sam_Bent @doingfedtime.bsky.social · Sep 10

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/

Sam_Bent @doingfedtime.bsky.social · Sep 9

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/

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Sam_Bent @doingfedtime.bsky.social · Sep 9

This 1975 paper established "least privilege" and "defense in depth"
as foundational security concepts.

Sam_Bent @doingfedtime.bsky.social · Sep 5

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/

Sam_Bent @doingfedtime.bsky.social · Sep 4

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