Articles by iamnothere
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iOS 27 code suggests Apple could restrict leased devices after missed payments (9to5mac.com)

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Encryption and Globalization 15 Years Later: E2EE and the "Going Dark" Debate (ssrn.com)

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The US Escalates Its Assault on Brazil's Free-to-Use Digital Payments System (nakedcapitalism.com)

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Amid security concerns, MIT to spend over $3M on over 500 surveillance cameras (thetech.com)

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The Long Tail of Work Left Until ActivityPub Has E2EE (soatok.blog)

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'We decided not to limit VPNs': UK government U-turns on age-gating VPNs (techradar.com)

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California Steps Back from Dangerous Expansion of Its Age-Gating Law (eff.org)

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CJEU: Geo-Blocking Protects Publishers in Copyright Disputes, VPNs Not Liable (torrentfreak.com)

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WhatsApp forensics in 2026 and what survives end-to-end encryption (andreafortuna.org)

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Pearson's Anti-Piracy Vendor Takes Down Best-Selling Author's Own GitHub Repo (torrentfreak.com)

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Once Unimaginable, Publishers Are Preparing to Opt Out of Google Search (adweek.com)

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Internews, Backed by $400M USAID War Chest, Pushes Ad Blacklists (foundationforfreedomonline.com)

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A Measurement Study on the Adoption of Pledges and Unveils in the OpenBSD OS (arxiv.org)

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Democratic Project 2029 calls for child social media ban, safety rules on tech (thehill.com)

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Procedural Trick Before Recess Pushes EU Towards Capitulation on "Chat Control" (patrick-breyer.de)

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Vaclav Havel, the Power of the Powerless (1978) (kamprint.com)

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The UK's Latest "Debanking" Scandal Should Give Everyone Pause (nakedcapitalism.com)

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Thomas Paine: The Founding Father Worth Celebrating (reason.com)

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Sports Rightsholders Want an EU ASN/IP Blacklist for 'Piracy' Hosting Providers (torrentfreak.com)

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Tor’s Arti 2.5.0 Released: Stable Counter Galois Onion (torproject.org)

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Soatok's Informal Guide to Threat Models (soatok.blog)

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No Warrant, No Reason, No Notice: Canada's New Disconnect Power (foundationforfreedomonline.com)

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California legislature agrees to upload driver's licenses to national database (papersplease.org)

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Forensic tools as instruments of repression: Cellebrite use in Russia (andreafortuna.org)

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The KIDS Act Would Require Age Checks to Get Online (eff.org)

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Optocam Zero: a Pi Zero based digital camera made using off the shelf components (github.com/dorukkumkumoglu)

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One Year with Codeberg (guix.gnu.org)

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VPN ban update for UK households as government looks at 'age-gate' (birminghammail.co.uk)

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The Fed Is Working on a CBDC (therage.co)

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Censorship Industry: The European Firms Monetizing the DSA (foundationforfreedomonline.com)

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Woodrow Wilson: America's worst president for free speech (fire.org)

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White House negotiating preemption of state AI laws in exchange for KOSA & more (thehill.com)

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Sestriere: Native MeshCore LoRa Mesh Client for Haiku OS (github.com/atomozero)

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The Countdown to a Major Oil Price Surge Has Begun (oilprice.com)

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SDSU Wired Its Dorms with 1,300 AI Cameras Without Telling Students (reclaimthenet.org)

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Governments escalate the global war on online anonymity (wsws.org)

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Syncing from the Void: Implementing Delay-Tolerant Burst Tunnels (instatunnel.substack.com)

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Anna's Archive hit with $19.5M default judgment and global domain takedown order (torrentfreak.com)

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Architect of the UK Online Safety Act Calls for Its Complete Repeal (prestonbyrne.com)

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US Government Concedes First Amendment Violation in Berenson Settlement (foundationforfreedomonline.com)

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The AI Ad-Hoc Prior Restraint Era Begins (thezvi.substack.com)

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ESP32 Hosts Solarpunk Message Board (hackaday.com)

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Report Links Piracy to Drugs, Weapons, and the Mafia; Calls for US Site-Blocking (torrentfreak.com)

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Utah's New Law Targeting VPNs Goes into Effect Next Week (eff.org)

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The EU's Digital Gulag Is (Apparently) Ready to Roll (nakedcapitalism.com)

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Stop New York's Attack on 3D Printing (eff.org)

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Michigan 'digital age' bills pulled after privacy concerns raised (thecentersquare.com)

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White Noise (encrypted group chat over Nostr) completes security audit (leastauthority.com)

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A German State Implemented a Land Value Tax (progressandpoverty.substack.com)

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4Chan Lawyers Introduce British First Amendment (therage.co)

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Applying Federal Digital Communications Privacy Law to Hosted AI Models (stanford.edu)

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GridDown: An offline first PWA for navigation, comms, and situational awareness (blackatlas.tech)

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Cyberattack leaves drivers with breathalyzer systems unable to start vehicles (wgme.com)

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[flagged] Brazil publishes list of companies needing age verification, includes Canonical (gov.br)

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Chat Control: EU Parliament said no to Big Tech mass surveillance of your chats (techradar.com)

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A list of tech co-ops and resources concerning worker owned co-ops (github.com/hng)

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Rep. Finke Was Right: Age-Gating Isn't About Kids, It's About Control (eff.org)

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OSS Anti Surveillance: project to track, oppose, and remove surveillance in FOSS (github.com/antisurv)

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ICMEC, Meta, Google, Gates Foundation behind US age verification bills (reddit.com)

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House Committee Passes Child "Safety" Bills That Push National Age Verification (reclaimthenet.org)

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The App Store Accountability Act trades privacy and free speech for false safety (reason.org)

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Entryism (wikipedia.org)

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On the need for a censorship API for legal compliance in some regions (debian.org)

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Ubuntu's Response to California's Digital Age Assurance Act (AB 1043) (ubuntu.com)

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Towards a Critical Theory of the Open Letter (paroxysms.substack.com)

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Open source calculator firmware DB48X forbids CA/CO use due to age verification (github.com/c3d)

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The Imperial Noble Lie: Translating Thermodynamic Collapse into Geopolitical War (theuaob.substack.com)

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DeepSeek withholds latest AI model V4 from US chipmakers including Nvidia (business-standard.com)

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The Limits of Legal Control in Technical Systems (leastauthority.com)

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The (Searchable) Whole Earth (searchwhole.earth)

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Vital Cat Update: An Update to the Update (Applied AI Data Poisoning) (terribleminds.com)

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UK fines Reddit for not checking user ages aggressively enough (arstechnica.com)

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Screen Power Saving in the Linux Console (complete.org)

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Netflix, Prime Video and Others in UK to Face 'Enhanced Regulation' from Ofcom (variety.com)

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Police are finding suspects based on searches as courts weigh privacy concerns (apnews.com)

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Colorado proposal moves age checks from websites to operating systems (biometricupdate.com)

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West Virginia Claims That Apple Allows Sharing of Child Sexual Abuse Material (nytimes.com)

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How the US Won Back Chip Manufacturing (chinatalk.media)

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People Will Sometimes Just Lie About You (aella.substack.com)

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Germany's Merz calls for real names on the internet (dpa-international.com)

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XSDR, a single-sided M.2 software-defined radio with 2×RX/TX up to 3.8 GHz (crowdsupply.com)

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UK government may 'age restrict or limit children's VPN use' (techradar.com)

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We Need Apocalypse-Proof Software (alavi.me)

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New and Upcoming IRCv3 Features (libera.chat)

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Is End-to-End Encryption Optional for Large Groups? (soatok.blog)

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Why governments insist on CBDCs or stablecoins when most people don't want them (nakedcapitalism.com)

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Hacktivist scrapes over 500k stalkerware customers' payment records (techcrunch.com)

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Weakening Section 230 Would Chill Online Speech (eff.org)

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A WhatsApp bug lets malicious media files spread through group chats (malwarebytes.com)

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TrustTunnel is an open-source VPN protocol that's harder to detect and block (cnx-software.com)

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The Disconnected Git Workflow (ploum.net)

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Google Settlement May Bring New Privacy Controls for Real-Time Bidding (eff.org)

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Operator of Manga Piracy Site Criminally Investigated in China After Complaint (torrentfreak.com)

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Polybius: Automated authoritarian consolidation index powered by Claude (polybius.world)

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Google to pay $68M over allegations its voice assistant eavesdropped on users (cbsnews.com)

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Adviser of Highest EU Court Backs VPN Neutrality in Anne Frank Copyright Battle (torrentfreak.com)

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UK Home Secretary's Admission About the Emerging AI Surveillance State (nakedcapitalism.com)

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French Court Orders Popular VPNs to Block More Pirate Sites, Despite Opposition (torrentfreak.com)

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Former Biden Disinformation Czar Backs Foreign Penalties Against US Platforms (foundationforfreedomonline.com)

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Italy Fines Cloudflare €14M for Refusing to Filter Pirate Sites on 1.1.1.1 DNS (torrentfreak.com)