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Building @obscura.net, former Bitcoin Core contributor

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Carl Dong → obscura.net @carldong.me · 26/08/2026
France is... based? (updating priors) www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
eff.org
French Top Court Gets It Right, Strikes Down Social Media Ban For
In a welcome win for free expression, France’s top court has struck down the country’s legislation that banned social media use for people under 15 years old, which had been scheduled to take effect
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Carl Dong → obscura.net @carldong.me · 25/08/2026
Heard through the grapevines that this VPN is actually good, idk might try it out.
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Carl Dong → obscura.net @carldong.me · 21/08/2026
What should we change "Traffic is vulnerable" to? Feels a bit too alarmist RN.
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Carl Dong → obscura.net @carldong.me · 21/08/2026
Is it legal to send marketing emails like this w/o an option to unsubscribe? I never asked for this, and at minimum it's a dick move.
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Carl Dong → obscura.net @carldong.me · 16/08/2026
HEXAGONS ARE THE BESTAGONS
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Carl Dong → obscura.net @carldong.me · 02/08/2026
CAPTCHAs in 2028: Draw an SVG of an Axolotl driving a Honda Civic who just got pulled over.
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Carl Dong → obscura.net @carldong.me · 30/07/2026
We fight for the end users.
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Carl Dong → obscura.net @carldong.me · 29/07/2026
Who's going to DEFCON next week? 🙋
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Carl Dong → obscura.net @carldong.me · 04/07/2026
Quiz time: how many directories does the following command create on the myhost machine (assuming no existing directories): ssh myhost -- mkdir -- "dir" "one more directory"
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Carl Dong → obscura.net @carldong.me · 13/06/2026
Yesterday, for the first time since 2008 (17+ years), warrantless spying of Americans using FISA Section 702 ended. This is huge, and definitely cause to celebrate! 🥳
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Carl Dong → obscura.net @carldong.me · 05/06/2026
0x0b5c112a
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Carl Dong → obscura.net @carldong.me · 01/06/2026
All regular expressions are irregular expressions (Given that you can hardly tell if it’s BRE, ERE, or PCRE)
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Carl Dong → obscura.net @carldong.me · 29/05/2026
If you use a YubiKey for ssh (via gpg-agent's ssh suppport), you probably see this error often when your YubiKey is unplugged. /1
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Carl Dong → obscura.net @carldong.me · 14/03/2026
Why did we stop making music like this?
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Carl Dong → obscura.net @carldong.me · 04/03/2026
Woke up in a cold sweat. Dreamt that they added a new flag to virt-install: virt-install --age-verifier 😖
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Carl Dong → obscura.net @carldong.me · 16/02/2026
Back in my day you needed a 9/11 to trick people into giving up civil liberties.
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Carl Dong → obscura.net @carldong.me · 10/12/2025
ISPs can't even spy on your TLS traffic without breaking your internet. Obscura VPN users unaffected.
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Carl Dong → obscura.net @carldong.me · 09/12/2025
Free civilizations cannot exist without privacy.
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Carl Dong → obscura.net @carldong.me · 18/11/2025
Every Cloudflare outage makes me wonder: Can we develop an open-source, local Cloudflare? Modern tooling/packet bypasses like XDP and BPF surely lower the barrier-to-entry to meaningful DDoS protection significantly.
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Carl Dong → obscura.net @carldong.me · 28/10/2025
😲 Ubiquiti just made a Flipper Zero for SFP modules!
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Carl Dong → obscura.net @carldong.me · 27/09/2025
You can tell I had a lot of fun chatting with @ente.io's CEO Vishnu 😊 Fighters for digital privacy, unite!
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Carl Dong → obscura.net @carldong.me · 16/09/2025
User data is toxic waste. Companies that don't treat it as such are ngmi.
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Carl Dong → obscura.net @carldong.me · 19/08/2025
🎉 BIG NEWS: Obscura is now on iOS! Obscura engineering team remains undefeated, even against the goliath that is App Store Review and In-App Purchases. We'll do a blog post about this someday, so folks can learn from our battle scars!
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Carl Dong → obscura.net @carldong.me · 18/08/2025
Anyone know of folks that have worked with the Android `VpnService` API?
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Carl Dong → obscura.net @carldong.me · 04/08/2025
> Apple: Confirming that you've fixed X, only Y needs fixes > Us: We've now fixed Y > Apple: Please fix X > Us: You literally just confirmed that we already fixed X > Apple: Please fix X (no details added) > Us: Here's proof we fixed X > Apple: Please fix X (no details added)
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Carl Dong → obscura.net @carldong.me · 03/08/2025
British lawmakers are buying their VPN subs with taxpayer money… and telling the same taxpayers not to use VPNs. You cannot make this shit up.
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Carl Dong → obscura.net @carldong.me · 30/07/2025
I am a systemd lover and I WILL NOT APOLOGIZE
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Carl Dong → obscura.net @carldong.me · 25/07/2025
“We must defend our own privacy if we expect to have any. We must come together and create systems which allow anonymous transactions to take place.” – A Cypherpunk’s Manifesto An open and private internet is more important than ever. That's what we fight for at @obscura.net
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Carl Dong → obscura.net @carldong.me · 24/07/2025
A Remote Access Trojan Malware was found in packages for Librewolf, Firefox, and Zen Browser last week 😰 If you were an Arch Linux users who tried to install these browsers via patched packages in the AUR, please check your system!
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Obscura VPN @obscura.net · 18/07/2025
NEW in v1.128: Location Switching in the Menu Bar A lot of you have asked for this, and it's finally here! Switch between your pinned locations and Quick Connect right from your menu bar! (See video below) Felix the friendly bot will miss you, but he understands ☺️
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Obscura VPN @obscura.net · 15/07/2025
Hey folks! Our 25% off launch sale will be ending next Monday (July 21st). If you haven't taken advantage of the sale yet, this is your sign to do so 😄 If you subscribe, we'll honor this sale price indefinitely 🔁 We've also recently added WireGuard support and iOS Testflight!
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Carl Dong → obscura.net @carldong.me · 14/07/2025
In Rust terms: When you thought your VPN provider's elided lifetime resolves to 'static but it's really just 'whenwedie 😆 tech.slashdot.org/story/25/07...
tech.slashdot.org
BulletVPN Shuts Down, Killing Lifetime Members' Subscriptions - Slashdot
VPN provider BulletVPN has shut down its servers with immediate effect, leaving subscribers without service regardless of their subscription terms. The company announced the closure on its website, citing "shifts in market demand, evolving technology requirements, and sustainability of operations." ...
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Carl Dong → obscura.net @carldong.me · 11/07/2025
James Dyson just made hair being stuck in Vacuums a thing of the past. Nobody is as obsessed with building the best Vacuum as James Dyson. Nobody is as obsessed with building the best VPN as our team at Obscura. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ve6...
youtube.com
The Dyson PencilVac Fluffycones™ cleaner | Global Premiere
Join James Dyson as he introduces the new Dyson PencilVac Fluffycones™ cleaner. Our latest, most advanced floorcare technology – now available in Japan.The f...
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Carl Dong → obscura.net @carldong.me · 08/07/2025
I knew there was something familiar about the American Megatrends BIOS logo... Skynet had ring-0 access the whole time!
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Carl Dong → obscura.net @carldong.me · 06/07/2025
My origin story 🐉
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Carl Dong → obscura.net @carldong.me · 04/07/2025
So Gemini on Android is about to forcefully get access to your WhatsApp + Messages, regardless if you've previously turned it off? And they want to dress it up like they're helping you? Please tell me I'm misunderstanding something here...
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Carl Dong → obscura.net @carldong.me · 03/07/2025
In the digital age, our de-facto privacy rights in the physical world are being stripped away. Even worse - surveillance mechanisms are being set up. As people wake up to this, privacy-by-default will become table-stakes for digital products. techcrunch.com/2025/03/02/...
techcrunch.com
Signal is the No. 1 downloaded app in the Netherlands. But why? | TechCrunch
Privacy-focused messaging app Signal has been flying high in the Dutch app stores this past month, sitting in pole-position for much of it.
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Faceless Alien @justa9.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
The Firewall Allignment Chart
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Carl Dong → obscura.net @carldong.me · 02/07/2025
Today's background music: A dramatic reading of RFC 2119 on loop 😆 soundcloud.com/ericwbailey...
soundcloud.com
RFC 2119
https://ericwbailey.website/published/you-must-listen-to-rfc-2119/
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Carl Dong → obscura.net @carldong.me · 26/06/2025
If you can't see your VPN App's source code, you can almost safely assume it's compromised. www.theregister.com/2025/06/24/...
theregister.com
Fake SonicWall VPN app steals user credentials
: A good reminder not to download apps from non-vendor sites
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Carl Dong → obscura.net @carldong.me · 24/06/2025
Me: Oh! Tim Sweeney won and we can link to our own payments on iOS! Apple: You plebeian. Your app won't pass App Store review without also offering Apple in-app purchases. And there's a whole different set of rules for EU. 😒 We would have already launched iOS otherwise.
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Carl Dong → obscura.net @carldong.me · 23/06/2025
A cheery bit of Tom Lehrer for our Sunday evenings 🎶 www.youtube.com/watch?v=frA...
youtube.com
Tom Lehrer - We Will All Go Together When We Go
Tom Lehrer on public domain (2020):https://tomlehrersongs.com/http://www.amazon.com/Tom-Lehrer-Collection-CD-DVD/dp/B0039TD73G/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid...
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Carl Dong → obscura.net @carldong.me · 19/06/2025
This Meta AI search thing seems pretty bad (and perhaps sad)... "'What counties [sic] do younger women like older white men,' a public message from a user on Meta’s AI platform says..." "...all tied to user names and profile photos." 😨 www.wired.com/story/meta-...
wired.com
The Meta AI App Lets You ‘Discover’ People’s Bizarrely Personal Chats
Launched in April, the Meta AI platform offers a “discover” feed that includes user queries containing medical, legal, and other seemingly sensitive information.
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Carl Dong → obscura.net @carldong.me · 16/06/2025
Too many services have meaningless E2E encryption: THIS APP IS E2E ENCRYPTED!!!* *one end is you the user and the other end is our data harvesting pipeline
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Carl Dong → obscura.net @carldong.me · 08/06/2025
Sec, gotta ask my ancestors for the WiFi router password real quick
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Carl Dong → obscura.net @carldong.me · 06/06/2025
It's a series of tubes!
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Carl Dong → obscura.net @carldong.me · 29/05/2025
Is anyone on Xfinity/Comcast or Spectrum/Charter internet with a stock router/modem and knows how to run `cargo` commands? Please DM me immediately, would like to test out a mitigation for ISP blocking. Happy to offer 2 years of free @obscura.net‬!
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Carl Dong → obscura.net @carldong.me · 29/05/2025
...then they fight you...
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Carl Dong → obscura.net @carldong.me · 26/05/2025
Firewalls Don’t Stop Dragons, won’t stop @obscura.net either! Had a great time chatting with Carey on the pod 🔥
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Carl Dong → obscura.net @carldong.me · 25/05/2025
Waymos in SF record video but not audio. Which is interesting for privacy… But doesn’t this mean that this camera (see pic) is recording my phone screen at all times??
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