Sam_Bent
@doingfedtime.bsky.social
ExDarknet Vendor/Market Admin/Buyer, Author, YouTuber, Paralegal, Hacker, DefCon/SANS speaker, podcaster, OSINT & OPSEC Specialist, and Content Creator
Cops Keep 90% of What They Seize and Spend It on Clowns
(how they rob you)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HGC...
(how they rob you)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HGC...
Cops Keep 90% of What They Seize and Spend It on Clowns
YouTube video by Sam Bent
www.youtube.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Cops Keep 90% of What They Seize and Spend It on Clowns
(how they rob you)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HGC...
(how they rob you)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HGC...
After decades of buffer overflows and memory corruption bugs in C Tor,
Arti 1.8.0 advances the Rust rewrite with smarter circuit timeouts and relay infrastructure progress.
www.sambent.com/tor-ditches-...
Arti 1.8.0 advances the Rust rewrite with smarter circuit timeouts and relay infrastructure progress.
www.sambent.com/tor-ditches-...
Tor Ditches C for Rust and Your Privacy Benefits
After decades of buffer overflows and memory corruption bugs in C Tor, Arti 1.8.0 advances the Rust rewrite with smarter circuit timeouts and relay infrastructure progress.
www.sambent.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:02 AM
After decades of buffer overflows and memory corruption bugs in C Tor,
Arti 1.8.0 advances the Rust rewrite with smarter circuit timeouts and relay infrastructure progress.
www.sambent.com/tor-ditches-...
Arti 1.8.0 advances the Rust rewrite with smarter circuit timeouts and relay infrastructure progress.
www.sambent.com/tor-ditches-...
It's amazing how many ways the state can find to extract resources from the population by force.
How many years would you get if you stole this much?
(This is an asset from my next video)
How many years would you get if you stole this much?
(This is an asset from my next video)
December 2, 2025 at 11:11 PM
It's amazing how many ways the state can find to extract resources from the population by force.
How many years would you get if you stole this much?
(This is an asset from my next video)
How many years would you get if you stole this much?
(This is an asset from my next video)
The EU is Destroying Privacy and exempting police, military, intelligence, and EU officials from the scanning.
Your messages get monitored. Theirs stay private.
The UK arrests 30+ people per day for online speech.
They're removing jury trials for 90% of eligible defendants.
youtu.be/_NY3h-0c5Sg
Your messages get monitored. Theirs stay private.
The UK arrests 30+ people per day for online speech.
They're removing jury trials for 90% of eligible defendants.
youtu.be/_NY3h-0c5Sg
The EU is Destroying Privacy
YouTube video by Sam Bent
youtu.be
November 30, 2025 at 3:32 PM
The EU is Destroying Privacy and exempting police, military, intelligence, and EU officials from the scanning.
Your messages get monitored. Theirs stay private.
The UK arrests 30+ people per day for online speech.
They're removing jury trials for 90% of eligible defendants.
youtu.be/_NY3h-0c5Sg
Your messages get monitored. Theirs stay private.
The UK arrests 30+ people per day for online speech.
They're removing jury trials for 90% of eligible defendants.
youtu.be/_NY3h-0c5Sg
Asking the surveillance state to pardon someone for resisting the surveillance state
while handing them your identity on a silver platter is not the way.
youtu.be/RUxL-KMCeHk
while handing them your identity on a silver platter is not the way.
youtu.be/RUxL-KMCeHk
Doxing Yourself to (Not) Save Privacy Developers
YouTube video by Sam Bent
youtu.be
November 29, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Asking the surveillance state to pardon someone for resisting the surveillance state
while handing them your identity on a silver platter is not the way.
youtu.be/RUxL-KMCeHk
while handing them your identity on a silver platter is not the way.
youtu.be/RUxL-KMCeHk
The same people who weaponized 18 U.S.C. § 371 to stack decades onto defendants now vote on criminal justice reform.
November 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM
The same people who weaponized 18 U.S.C. § 371 to stack decades onto defendants now vote on criminal justice reform.
Germany is debanking journalists and critics without explanation.
The IRS offered $625K to crack Monero's privacy and nobody claimed it.
This is why governments hate it.
youtu.be/vcg9eMh1Uuw
The IRS offered $625K to crack Monero's privacy and nobody claimed it.
This is why governments hate it.
youtu.be/vcg9eMh1Uuw
Germany Is Debanking Dissidents, How Monero Solves This...
YouTube video by Sam Bent
youtu.be
November 25, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Germany is debanking journalists and critics without explanation.
The IRS offered $625K to crack Monero's privacy and nobody claimed it.
This is why governments hate it.
youtu.be/vcg9eMh1Uuw
The IRS offered $625K to crack Monero's privacy and nobody claimed it.
This is why governments hate it.
youtu.be/vcg9eMh1Uuw
Reddit just banned HugBunter's entire account.
He runs Dread, the world's largest darknet forum with thousands of users.
He has a message for you: youtu.be/TdulsXno-Tw
He runs Dread, the world's largest darknet forum with thousands of users.
He has a message for you: youtu.be/TdulsXno-Tw
HugBunter Deleted: Reddit Erases Dread Forum Administrator
The darknet forum owner get's wiped off reddit after years.
www.sambent.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Reddit just banned HugBunter's entire account.
He runs Dread, the world's largest darknet forum with thousands of users.
He has a message for you: youtu.be/TdulsXno-Tw
He runs Dread, the world's largest darknet forum with thousands of users.
He has a message for you: youtu.be/TdulsXno-Tw
Switzerland's government is forcing every VPN and encrypted messenger with 5,000+ users to collect your passport and decrypt your communications on demand.
This bypasses their famous direct democracy entirely.
Watch: youtu.be/6aYWzhSl_TE
This bypasses their famous direct democracy entirely.
Watch: youtu.be/6aYWzhSl_TE
How Switzerland Became a Surveillance State Overnight
YouTube video by Sam Bent
youtu.be
November 18, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Switzerland's government is forcing every VPN and encrypted messenger with 5,000+ users to collect your passport and decrypt your communications on demand.
This bypasses their famous direct democracy entirely.
Watch: youtu.be/6aYWzhSl_TE
This bypasses their famous direct democracy entirely.
Watch: youtu.be/6aYWzhSl_TE
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.