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Where curiosity meets the keyboard, and chaos finds clarity.
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We've added a 'Buy Me a Coffee' feature. Because writing scripts and screaming into the digital void still doesn't pay in caffeine.
If you enjoy what we do (or just want to fund our descent into espresso-fuelled chaos), you know what to do. Thanks for the support.
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If you enjoy what we do (or just want to fund our descent into espresso-fuelled chaos), you know what to do. Thanks for the support.
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Corporate boards talk "cyber posture" while ignoring every warning. Households talk "who downloaded this dodgy thing?" while doing actual incident response.
We're basically CISOs with biscuits. You may even be more agile than half the FTSE 100.
www.keystone-collective.org/home-sweet-b...
We're basically CISOs with biscuits. You may even be more agile than half the FTSE 100.
www.keystone-collective.org/home-sweet-b...
Home Sweet Breach: Surviving Cyber Incidents in the Modern Household
If you’ve ever read about corporate incident response, you’ll know it usually involves a boardroom full of executives who look like they’ve just learned what a computer is, several security analysts w...
www.keystone-collective.org
December 6, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Corporate boards talk "cyber posture" while ignoring every warning. Households talk "who downloaded this dodgy thing?" while doing actual incident response.
We're basically CISOs with biscuits. You may even be more agile than half the FTSE 100.
www.keystone-collective.org/home-sweet-b...
We're basically CISOs with biscuits. You may even be more agile than half the FTSE 100.
www.keystone-collective.org/home-sweet-b...
It still feels like the moment three little cuties blasted through Enter Sandman back in 2014 and instantly got adopted by thousands of internet aunts and uncles.
Now, several killer albums later, every new track they drop is an absolute banger. #TheWarning ❤️🔥
youtube.com/watch?v=ICaT...
Now, several killer albums later, every new track they drop is an absolute banger. #TheWarning ❤️🔥
youtube.com/watch?v=ICaT...
The Warning - Consume (Live From Auditorio Nacional, CDMX)
YouTube video by The Warning
youtube.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:30 PM
It still feels like the moment three little cuties blasted through Enter Sandman back in 2014 and instantly got adopted by thousands of internet aunts and uncles.
Now, several killer albums later, every new track they drop is an absolute banger. #TheWarning ❤️🔥
youtube.com/watch?v=ICaT...
Now, several killer albums later, every new track they drop is an absolute banger. #TheWarning ❤️🔥
youtube.com/watch?v=ICaT...
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The Gospel According to Peter Thiel: Silicon Valley’s Rasputin and the Politics of the Apocalypse
There’s a moment in every civilization, usually right before the wheels come off, when the richest people in the room start talking about demons.
www.keystone-collective.org/the-gospel-a...
There’s a moment in every civilization, usually right before the wheels come off, when the richest people in the room start talking about demons.
www.keystone-collective.org/the-gospel-a...
The Gospel According to Peter Thiel: Silicon Valley’s Rasputin and the Politics of the Apocalypse
There’s a moment in every civilization, usually right before the wheels come off, when the richest people in the room start talking about demons.
For Russia, that moment was Rasputin, the unwashed my...
www.keystone-collective.org
November 4, 2025 at 11:31 PM
The Gospel According to Peter Thiel: Silicon Valley’s Rasputin and the Politics of the Apocalypse
There’s a moment in every civilization, usually right before the wheels come off, when the richest people in the room start talking about demons.
www.keystone-collective.org/the-gospel-a...
There’s a moment in every civilization, usually right before the wheels come off, when the richest people in the room start talking about demons.
www.keystone-collective.org/the-gospel-a...
How Epstein Infiltrated the Silicon Valley Network Behind Trump’s New Tech Order.
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/03/h...
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/03/h...
How Epstein Infiltrated the Silicon Valley Network Behind Trump’s New Tech Order
Documents show Jeffrey Epstein was not cast out after his child sex-crime conviction but remained embedded in a confidential inner circle of Silicon Valley founders with strategic influence on the mod...
bylinetimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:15 PM
How Epstein Infiltrated the Silicon Valley Network Behind Trump’s New Tech Order.
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/03/h...
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/03/h...
The terrifying part isn't that your smart fridge can join a botnet. It's that the botnet will have redundancy, scalability, and CI/CD practices your engineering team could only dream of.
Crime shouldn't be this good at DevOps.
www.keystone-collective.org/modern-botne...
Crime shouldn't be this good at DevOps.
www.keystone-collective.org/modern-botne...
Modern Botnet Architecture: Why Your Kettle Has a More Robust Command-and-Control System Than Most Startups
Somewhere right now, a perfectly innocent-looking smart kettle in Milton Keynes is quietly participating in a global cybercrime infrastructure with better uptime than your employer’s VPN. It does not ...
www.keystone-collective.org
December 4, 2025 at 6:42 PM
The terrifying part isn't that your smart fridge can join a botnet. It's that the botnet will have redundancy, scalability, and CI/CD practices your engineering team could only dream of.
Crime shouldn't be this good at DevOps.
www.keystone-collective.org/modern-botne...
Crime shouldn't be this good at DevOps.
www.keystone-collective.org/modern-botne...
Harborne was also a backer of the cryptocurrency Tether, which has been found by National Crime Agency investigators to be used to help Russia fight its war against Ukraine.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Crypto investor gives £9m to Reform UK as donations exceed those to Tories
Christopher Harborne’s record gift revealed in Electoral Commission figures prompts renewed calls for cap on political donations
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Harborne was also a backer of the cryptocurrency Tether, which has been found by National Crime Agency investigators to be used to help Russia fight its war against Ukraine.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Regex.
Invented to understand neurons, evolved into a computational knife that can parse text, melt CPUs, summon Unicode nightmares, and ruin weekends. Not regular, barely expression, and mostly trauma.
Still we use it. Still we love it.
www.keystone-collective.org/the-perverse...
Invented to understand neurons, evolved into a computational knife that can parse text, melt CPUs, summon Unicode nightmares, and ruin weekends. Not regular, barely expression, and mostly trauma.
Still we use it. Still we love it.
www.keystone-collective.org/the-perverse...
The Perverse Beauty of Regex: A Love Letter to the World’s Most Efficient Torture Device
It starts innocently. You just want to search for something. A word, a phone number, perhaps the occasional email address belonging to your former classmate who still owes you £60 for books. You could...
www.keystone-collective.org
December 4, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Regex.
Invented to understand neurons, evolved into a computational knife that can parse text, melt CPUs, summon Unicode nightmares, and ruin weekends. Not regular, barely expression, and mostly trauma.
Still we use it. Still we love it.
www.keystone-collective.org/the-perverse...
Invented to understand neurons, evolved into a computational knife that can parse text, melt CPUs, summon Unicode nightmares, and ruin weekends. Not regular, barely expression, and mostly trauma.
Still we use it. Still we love it.
www.keystone-collective.org/the-perverse...
According to journalists,every company is founded by a lone genius who codes with one hand while reinventing society with the other. NVIDIA had 3 founders,Tesla had 2 before Musk,Facebook had a whole squad.
But sure, let’s keep the superhero fanfic going.
www.keystone-collective.org/the-great-fo...
But sure, let’s keep the superhero fanfic going.
www.keystone-collective.org/the-great-fo...
The Great Founder Erasure: How Tech Journalism Keeps Inventing Lone Geniuses
There is a particular species of modern myth-making that thrives in Silicon Valley, a kind of techno-spiritual folklore woven from hoodies, venture capital, and the irresistible editorial urge to attr...
www.keystone-collective.org
December 4, 2025 at 11:15 AM
According to journalists,every company is founded by a lone genius who codes with one hand while reinventing society with the other. NVIDIA had 3 founders,Tesla had 2 before Musk,Facebook had a whole squad.
But sure, let’s keep the superhero fanfic going.
www.keystone-collective.org/the-great-fo...
But sure, let’s keep the superhero fanfic going.
www.keystone-collective.org/the-great-fo...
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Corporate HR loves to 'celebrate neurodiversity', right up until someone actually thinks differently.
GCHQ, meanwhile, just gives them the keys to the firewall.
You need someone who hasn't looked up from the packet logs in 10 hours, bless them.
New read:
www.keystone-collective.org/seeing-what-...
GCHQ, meanwhile, just gives them the keys to the firewall.
You need someone who hasn't looked up from the packet logs in 10 hours, bless them.
New read:
www.keystone-collective.org/seeing-what-...
Seeing What Others Miss: The Hidden Power of Neurodiverse Intelligence
When Robert Hannigan, former Director of GCHQ and architect of the UK’s cyber-defence upgrade, published his book Counter-Intelligence: What the Secret World Can Teach Us About Problem Solving and Cre...
www.keystone-collective.org
November 10, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Corporate HR loves to 'celebrate neurodiversity', right up until someone actually thinks differently.
GCHQ, meanwhile, just gives them the keys to the firewall.
You need someone who hasn't looked up from the packet logs in 10 hours, bless them.
New read:
www.keystone-collective.org/seeing-what-...
GCHQ, meanwhile, just gives them the keys to the firewall.
You need someone who hasn't looked up from the packet logs in 10 hours, bless them.
New read:
www.keystone-collective.org/seeing-what-...
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The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
December 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
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Ep 166 is here! "Maxie"
The long awaited episode is here! I'm excited to introduce you to Maxie Reynolds. The people on my team all said this episode blew their mind. 🤯
darknetdiaries.com/episode/166/
The long awaited episode is here! I'm excited to introduce you to Maxie Reynolds. The people on my team all said this episode blew their mind. 🤯
darknetdiaries.com/episode/166/
December 2, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Ep 166 is here! "Maxie"
The long awaited episode is here! I'm excited to introduce you to Maxie Reynolds. The people on my team all said this episode blew their mind. 🤯
darknetdiaries.com/episode/166/
The long awaited episode is here! I'm excited to introduce you to Maxie Reynolds. The people on my team all said this episode blew their mind. 🤯
darknetdiaries.com/episode/166/
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So it sure looks like someone invented a fake Russian advance in Ukraine to manipulate the online gambling market Polymarket. Gamblers are making money by betting on the outcomes of battles big and small in the war. Edited map is run by DC-based think tank
www.404media.co/unauthorized...
www.404media.co/unauthorized...
'Unauthorized' Edit to Ukraine's Frontline Maps Point to Polymarket's War Betting
It looks like someone invented a fake Russia advance in Ukraine to manipulate online gambling markets.
www.404media.co
December 1, 2025 at 6:48 PM
So it sure looks like someone invented a fake Russian advance in Ukraine to manipulate the online gambling market Polymarket. Gamblers are making money by betting on the outcomes of battles big and small in the war. Edited map is run by DC-based think tank
www.404media.co/unauthorized...
www.404media.co/unauthorized...
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On 8 December, politicians in the UK will be debating a petition that reached almost 3 million signatories rejecting mandatory digital ID. If you’re based in the UK, contact your MP through Big Brother Watch’s tool to oppose the plans for a digital ID system. bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/campaigns/n...
No2DigitalID — Big Brother Watch
A national digital ID system is not inevitable. We can stop Britain sleepwalking into becoming a database state. Support our campaign to create a legal right to use non-digital ID!
bigbrotherwatch.org.uk
December 1, 2025 at 4:57 PM
On 8 December, politicians in the UK will be debating a petition that reached almost 3 million signatories rejecting mandatory digital ID. If you’re based in the UK, contact your MP through Big Brother Watch’s tool to oppose the plans for a digital ID system. bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/campaigns/n...
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Until tech gives more agency to citizens, smart cities are a dumb idea for democracy. "While cities may disclose how they collect data, they rarely offer ways to opt out." "Residents want agency" #privacy #AIEthics
spectrum.ieee.org/smart-city-p...
spectrum.ieee.org/smart-city-p...
Data Walks Reveal Residents' Mixed Feelings on Privacy
How do Long Beach residents feel about data collection in their city? Gwen Shaffer's data walks reveal surprising insights.
spectrum.ieee.org
November 30, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Until tech gives more agency to citizens, smart cities are a dumb idea for democracy. "While cities may disclose how they collect data, they rarely offer ways to opt out." "Residents want agency" #privacy #AIEthics
spectrum.ieee.org/smart-city-p...
spectrum.ieee.org/smart-city-p...
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Myanmar’s military has been blowing up parts of the KK Park scam compound. Experts say the actions are likely for show.
The Destruction of a Notorious Myanmar Scam Compound Appears to Have Been ‘Performative’
Myanmar’s military has been blowing up parts of the KK Park scam compound. Experts say the actions are likely for show.
wrd.cm
November 30, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Myanmar’s military has been blowing up parts of the KK Park scam compound. Experts say the actions are likely for show.
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We cannot base our human rights on the government’s mere promise to uphold them. The UK government must listen to the public and civil society organizations in the country and say no to digital ID.
The UK Has It Wrong on Digital ID. Here’s Why.
In late September, the United Kingdom’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced his government’s plans to introduce a new digital ID scheme in the country to take effect before the end of the Parliament...
www.eff.org
November 28, 2025 at 10:12 AM
We cannot base our human rights on the government’s mere promise to uphold them. The UK government must listen to the public and civil society organizations in the country and say no to digital ID.
Unicode isn't a standard. It's a geopolitical fever dream where linguistics, cyber warfare, influence ops, censorship, OSINT, and national identity all collide.
Homoglyph attacks, script politics, emoji diplomacy, etc.
Encoding=Recognition=Politics
www.keystone-collective.org/the-geopolit...
Homoglyph attacks, script politics, emoji diplomacy, etc.
Encoding=Recognition=Politics
www.keystone-collective.org/the-geopolit...
The Geopolitics of Unicode: How Scripts, Fonts, and Character Sets Become Cybersecurity Issues
If you ever wanted proof that geopolitics is fundamentally absurd, look no further than Unicode, the global standard that decides which scribbles count as legitimate text in the digital world. You mig...
www.keystone-collective.org
November 24, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Unicode isn't a standard. It's a geopolitical fever dream where linguistics, cyber warfare, influence ops, censorship, OSINT, and national identity all collide.
Homoglyph attacks, script politics, emoji diplomacy, etc.
Encoding=Recognition=Politics
www.keystone-collective.org/the-geopolit...
Homoglyph attacks, script politics, emoji diplomacy, etc.
Encoding=Recognition=Politics
www.keystone-collective.org/the-geopolit...
The 1990s Crypto Wars, when cryptography was treated like ordnance, RSA sparked bureaucratic terror, insecure 40-bit export ciphers haunted the internet for decades, and governments tried to outlaw mathematics.
Featuring: smuggled paperbacks and T-shirt.
www.keystone-collective.org/the-great-pr...
Featuring: smuggled paperbacks and T-shirt.
www.keystone-collective.org/the-great-pr...
The Great Prime Number Panic: When Washington Declared War on Arithmetic
There’s a peculiar comfort in knowing that governments have always been bewildered by technology. Today they struggle with TikTok; in the 1990s they struggled with mathematics. Not complicated mathema...
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November 24, 2025 at 11:53 AM
The 1990s Crypto Wars, when cryptography was treated like ordnance, RSA sparked bureaucratic terror, insecure 40-bit export ciphers haunted the internet for decades, and governments tried to outlaw mathematics.
Featuring: smuggled paperbacks and T-shirt.
www.keystone-collective.org/the-great-pr...
Featuring: smuggled paperbacks and T-shirt.
www.keystone-collective.org/the-great-pr...
Windows telemetry is so deranged, if I sneeze near the keyboard, it sends it in as a “potential user input anomaly".
November 21, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Windows telemetry is so deranged, if I sneeze near the keyboard, it sends it in as a “potential user input anomaly".
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Cryptocurrency backed by Farage donor is used for Russian war effort, investigators say www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Cryptocurrency backed by Farage donor is used for Russian war effort, investigators say
Tether tokens found to facilitate scheme that enables sanctions evasion and launders money for the Kremlin
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Cryptocurrency backed by Farage donor is used for Russian war effort, investigators say www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
I just hope the AI bubble bursts before the UK government decides to give billions in subsidies to all those tech-bro dropouts.
November 20, 2025 at 6:45 PM
I just hope the AI bubble bursts before the UK government decides to give billions in subsidies to all those tech-bro dropouts.
Satellites. Orbiting marvels of modern engineering. Beaming global connectivity. Broadcasting...
plain-text Telnet logins.
Alien abductors willing to take whoever decided Telnet over GEO was acceptable in 2025.
New read at:
www.keystone-collective.org/when-a-500-s...
plain-text Telnet logins.
Alien abductors willing to take whoever decided Telnet over GEO was acceptable in 2025.
New read at:
www.keystone-collective.org/when-a-500-s...
When a £500 Sattelite Dish Can Hear Your Army, Your Bank, and Your Nan
There’s something wonderfully comforting about space. The vastness. The stars. The crushing existential reminder that one day all this will end, and none of your unread Slack threads will matter. And ...
www.keystone-collective.org
November 20, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Satellites. Orbiting marvels of modern engineering. Beaming global connectivity. Broadcasting...
plain-text Telnet logins.
Alien abductors willing to take whoever decided Telnet over GEO was acceptable in 2025.
New read at:
www.keystone-collective.org/when-a-500-s...
plain-text Telnet logins.
Alien abductors willing to take whoever decided Telnet over GEO was acceptable in 2025.
New read at:
www.keystone-collective.org/when-a-500-s...
The modern vehicle is a #surveillance platform with cup holder, and we're all just quietly pretending that's normal.
Once a symbol of freedom, now a snitchy little laptop on wheels that monetises every bad line change you make.
New read at:
www.keystone-collective.org/black-boxes-...
Once a symbol of freedom, now a snitchy little laptop on wheels that monetises every bad line change you make.
New read at:
www.keystone-collective.org/black-boxes-...
Black Boxes on Wheels: The Road to Hell Is Paved With Over-the-Air Updates
Modern Britain loves a good motoring myth. For decades we believed our cars were faithful companions: sturdy mechanical horses helping us gallop through life, guided only by petrol, luck, and a questi...
www.keystone-collective.org
November 20, 2025 at 1:46 PM
The modern vehicle is a #surveillance platform with cup holder, and we're all just quietly pretending that's normal.
Once a symbol of freedom, now a snitchy little laptop on wheels that monetises every bad line change you make.
New read at:
www.keystone-collective.org/black-boxes-...
Once a symbol of freedom, now a snitchy little laptop on wheels that monetises every bad line change you make.
New read at:
www.keystone-collective.org/black-boxes-...
Journalism 👇
After 404 Media's months-long reporting and pressure from lawmakers, the data broker owned by the U.S.’s major airlines will now shut down a program in which it sold access to hundreds of millions of flight records to the government and let agencies track peoples’ movements without a warrant.
November 19, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Journalism 👇
November 18, 2025 at 10:30 PM