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Sam_Bent @doingfedtime.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Reddit wipes accounts made over Tor or a VPN. A user they cannot track is a user they cannot sell. Your privacy lowers your resale value, so they delete you. youtu.be/TdulsXno-Tw

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Sam_Bent @doingfedtime.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The head of Paris cybercrime warned the state will prosecute developers who refuse to cooperate,even when they broke no law. "Do what I say or go to prison." That is extortion, and the prosecutor is the real criminal. youtu.be/Y5GrbhB2HHQ

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Sam_Bent @doingfedtime.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A darknet market that pulls fonts and assets from Google and Cloudflare is bridging the exact thing you use Tor to escape. Correlation, browser exploits, traffic analysis, all on the menu. Why trust operators who think that is fine. youtu.be/y6SaXUUxMVU

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Sam_Bent @doingfedtime.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Facebook sold Onavo as a VPN that protects you. It was spyware that logged what apps teens ran. Apple threw it out of the store. The guy who ran that privacy team now builds Signal's backups. Same trick, new logo. youtu.be/lxNOpIwjTxo

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Sam_Bent @doingfedtime.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Nobody funds a site like this out of thin air. It's the community, and it's the darknet markets it hosts ads for. Which is also the exact reason Hugbunter would catch a case. Pretending that's legal is delusional. youtu.be/Vxplqgrs3bk

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Sam_Bent @doingfedtime.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Encryption alone is a knife against a drone strike. Technically armed, still finished. The real move is a decoy convincing enough to survive a raid while the truth leaves no fingerprint at all. youtu.be/Ofm0xSD6nq0

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Sam_Bent @doingfedtime.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

A Milwaukee cop ran Flock cameras to stalk his ex 170 times in two months. An SF officer posted his surveillance flex on Instagram. This is the access model working as designed. youtu.be/fGIWOTXTfHw

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Sam_Bent @doingfedtime.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The state gave child attackers suspended sentences, then jailed the woman who called one of them a pig. Now the same people want to read every private message you send. Protecting children was never the point. youtu.be/_NY3h-0c5Sg

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Sam_Bent @doingfedtime.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Google Photos licenses your memories back to you until the day it decides not to. You rent access to your own data. youtu.be/KGaKGzGOGKg

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Sam_Bent @doingfedtime.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

They do not need to arrest you anymore. They just tell your bank you asked the wrong questions and your account disappears. A journalist in Germany learned this for doubting the lockdowns. Left wing, right wing, does not matter. youtu.be/vcg9eMh1Uuw

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Sam_Bent @doingfedtime.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The difference between a drug dealer and a pharmaceutical company is the pharmaceutical company donates to campaigns.

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Sam_Bent @doingfedtime.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The average person commits three felonies a day. Not because you're bad, but because the federal code is so vast and vague that Harvey Silvergate says compliance is impossible. You're already a criminal. They haven't picked you yet. youtu.be/RUxL-KMCeHk

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Sam_Bent @doingfedtime.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Protection means surveillance. Security means control. Lawful access means reading your stuff. They picked every word to hide the surveillance state sitting underneath it. youtu.be/TRnOVyh5hl4

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Sam_Bent @doingfedtime.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Law enforcement pads every bust to make the headline bigger. One flip and the raid list writes itself. Nobody in that group needed to snitch on purpose. One scared person did it for them. youtu.be/CV5J-usji04

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Sam_Bent @doingfedtime.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

A stranger studies your entire posting history, then argues you into agreeing. One in five times it works. A targeting system wearing a username. youtu.be/f-QdqKS61Jg

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Sam_Bent @doingfedtime.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

There is no backdoor that only lets the good guys in. Weaken encryption for iCloud and you weaken it for criminal hackers and foreign spies too. The lock does not check a badge before it opens. youtu.be/7ZGNgt2levs

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Sam_Bent @doingfedtime.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The sound of financial privacy working exactly as designed.

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Sam_Bent @doingfedtime.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Paper please would be a step up. Now it's app please. An agent looks at his phone, it says you're not a citizen, and your birth certificate means nothing. youtu.be/r57V4-3gZws

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Sam_Bent @doingfedtime.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

You can't get a license to commit armed robbery. A license only exists for things that are already legal but need the state's permission first. Charging the Samourai devs with unlicensed money transmission admits the thing itself was legal. youtu.be/RUxL-KMCeHk

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Sam_Bent @doingfedtime.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

A company built the largest real ID database on earth. It conned hundreds of millions into handing over photos, relationships, likes, even info about their kids. You may have heard of it. It is called Facebook. youtu.be/pVjoEENPhsg

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Sam_Bent @doingfedtime.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

CBDCs are coming, cash is disappearing, and the window to acquire untraceable money keeps shrinking.

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Sam_Bent @doingfedtime.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Running xorg in 2025 is leaving your house keys under the doormat with a sign pointing to them. The difference is grandpa's house didn't have hackers draining his crypto wallet. Your threat model changed. Your desktop didn't. youtu.be/rwTo6wvX768

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Sam_Bent @doingfedtime.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The banks that admitted to laundering for cartels still open at nine tomorrow. The man who ran an unlicensed cash out service is in prison. Same act. The only difference is who got a cut and who paid to play. youtu.be/MBtgSCG2yBo

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Sam_Bent @doingfedtime.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Remember that darknet market admins do not care about you. They built the market to make money, and you are useful exactly as long as you keep making them money. youtu.be/y6SaXUUxMVU

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Sam_Bent @doingfedtime.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Stack XMR while normies argue about which surveillance coin will pump next.

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Sam_Bent @doingfedtime.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

A backup you cannot replace is not a backup. GrapheneOS lived or died on Google leaving Pixel bootloaders open. One boardroom decision ends it. A second manufacturer changes that math for the first time ever. youtu.be/Y5GrbhB2HHQ

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Sam_Bent @doingfedtime.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

In the 60s, controlling a narrative meant informants risking their lives. Today a single AI deployment outperforms all of it for pocket change. Same goal, however with the latter their are no bodies required. youtu.be/f-QdqKS61Jg

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Sam_Bent @doingfedtime.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

A Swiss firm called Prodraft is openly buying accounts on hacking forums. It wants your identity, the aged logins from before 2022, because those are the trusted ones. They want to wear you like a suit. youtu.be/N_FWgUA85aI

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Sam_Bent @doingfedtime.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The transparent coins keep asking where Monero is while Monero keeps doing exactly what they can't.

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Sam_Bent @doingfedtime.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

They tracked children for seven years and the bill came to one hour of Alphabet income. .01% of a single year. When crime is this cheap, it becomes a line item. youtu.be/Nt8tMiYo4PA

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Sam_Bent @doingfedtime.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Surveillance capitalism used to be free because you were the product. Now they charge you $200 a month to be the product and brand it as progress. youtu.be/nmkk_bmohJ0

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Sam_Bent @doingfedtime.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

They passed a law forcing every messenger to scan your private chats. Then the cops, soldiers, spies and politicians who wrote it exempted themselves. If the scanning is so safe, why do the people who built it refuse to live under it. youtu.be/j0VdLBIjNRQ

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Sam_Bent @doingfedtime.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Zero-knowledge proofs and privacy-preserving authentication. How to Prove Yourself: Practical Solutions to Identification and Signature Problems by Amos Fiat and Adi Shamir (1986) link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/3…

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Sam_Bent @doingfedtime.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Breached UNICEF. Breached BMW. Won't leak hospital or patient data. The hacker has a code. Your insurance company does not. youtu.be/MUYjiETdVWQ

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Sam_Bent @doingfedtime.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Monero transactions look exactly like this to every government, corporation, and surveillance company watching.

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Sam_Bent @doingfedtime.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Your phone logs where you stand. The NSA keeps every text. Plate readers map your car. Your TV listens. Your doorbell reports to the cops. Spend cash and you are suspicious. youtu.be/iRJPGu7-USI

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Sam_Bent @doingfedtime.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The cryptography did its job here. This was a networking problem, and networking problems get patched.https://youtu.be/y8Kagu3r3Z4

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Sam_Bent @doingfedtime.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Over 100 people warned Steam the game was stealing wallets. Valve moved at bureaucratic speed and left it up for download. Real users kept getting robbed while the complaints piled up. Institutional security is a promise that shields nobody. youtu.be/dOrjOPBRcf4

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Sam_Bent @doingfedtime.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Every remote node you use is a company you decided to trust without asking.https://youtu.be/y8Kagu3r3Z4

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Sam_Bent @doingfedtime.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The pattern never changes. Trust a centralized mixer today, get arrested off its records tomorrow. Every big one has fallen. Yours is not the exception. youtu.be/oFioqVeNGGg

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Sam_Bent @doingfedtime.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

They call it a practical feasibility result under stated adversary capabilities, not a claim that every Monero over Tor transaction is deanonymized.The headlines dropped that sentence.https://youtu.be/y8Kagu3r3Z4

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Sam_Bent @doingfedtime.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Harmful to the banking system sounds like the best investment thesis available.

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Sam_Bent @doingfedtime.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

When that German journalist got debanked, her supporters could not even send a donation without tripping bank surveillance. With Monero there is no middleman to deny you. No account to close. You hold your own money and send it to anyone. youtu.be/vcg9eMh1Uuw

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Sam_Bent @doingfedtime.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

If this ever runs against you,it is because a government decided you personallywere worth eight figures.https://youtu.be/y8Kagu3r3Z4

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Sam_Bent @doingfedtime.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The dosage increases every year and nobody questions the prescription because questioning it is the first symptom they trained out of you.

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Sam_Bent @doingfedtime.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Monero strips your name off the invoice. It does not protect your IP. It does not erase your logs. It does not harden someone else's hardware. That part is still on you. youtu.be/OqzMrhcMcUM

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Sam_Bent @doingfedtime.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

To reach your IP the attacker needs:a thousand high speed Tor relays plus five thousand fake Monero nodes,all aimed at one person,and the paper still only givesthem a 46 percent shot.https://youtu.be/y8Kagu3r3Z4

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Sam_Bent @doingfedtime.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

How does a minor DoS crash your main onion but leave the premium mirror online? Because running infrastructure that refuses to trust big providers means the workarounds pile up. Technical debt is the real adversary. youtu.be/Vxplqgrs3bk

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Sam_Bent @doingfedtime.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Certificate authority compromises and the broken PKI trust model. Analysis of the HTTPS Certificate Ecosystem by Zakir Durumeric et al. (2013) dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2504730.2504…

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Sam_Bent @doingfedtime.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Tor's answer to a broken security feature: it's your fault for not scrolling a thousand dev threads. Technically public, practically hidden. Corporate fine print with an open source label. youtu.be/ooNmubCA680

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