Privacy
Amazon just canceled Ring's partnership with Flock Safety, a surveillance company operating over 100,000 automated license plate reader cameras across 49 states that scan more than 20 billion plates per month. The deal would have allowed law enforcement to request Ring doorbell footage through Flock's
dark web
James Ettleson ordered meth through dark web markets then advertised it on Facebook, earning 100 months in federal prison.
Privacy
Proton has handed over user data in response to over 40,000 government orders since 2017. Their own transparency report shows a 94% compliance rate. Here's everything they don't want you to know, sourced from their own documents.
OpenClaw
OpenClaw has racked up over 160 security advisories in the past year, excludes the primary attack vector from their security model, and has no bug bounty program. This is security in name only.
garlic routing
The unidirectional tunnel requirement in I2P means a simple request-response involves four distinct paths, and garlic routing optimizes this architecture by packaging multiple messages together for efficient transport.
dread
Dread is running a writing contest with $1,750 in Monero prizes and one very specific ban: AI-generated content.
apple
Apple rolled identity verification into iOS 26.4 for UK users under the Online Safety Act, requiring credit card scans or government photo ID to confirm users are over 18. If you decline, app downloads and in-app purchases get restricted on a phone you already own. The system is expanding
Darknet & Darkweb News, OpSec, OSINT and More
Tails 7.5 upgrades to Tor 0.4.9.5 with Counter Galois Onion encryption and patches over 30 high-severity Firefox vulnerabilities through Tor Browser 15.0.7.
On February 3, 2026, the I2P anonymity network was flooded with 700,000 hostile nodes in what became one of the most devastating Sybil attacks an anonymity network has ever experienced. The network normally operates with 15,000 to 20,000 active devices. The attackers overwhelmed it by a factor
Tor Browser 15.0.6 ships with Counter Galois Onion circuit encryption that eliminates tagging attacks, plus a heap buffer overflow patch from Firefox ESR 140.7.1.
Whonix 18.1.4.2 disables VirtualBox dynamic resolution by default after developers discovered the auto-resize feature creates unique fingerprints that persist across reboots.
A criminal proxy service openly bragged "Working since 2004!" on its homepage while the FBI apparently had other priorities for two decades.
A botnet that broke DDoS records at 31.4 terabits per second accidentally crippled I2P's anonymity network while trying to use it as a backup command infrastructure, and the developers responded with post-quantum cryptography enabled by default.
Tails 7.4.2 ships as the second emergency release in 12 days, patching 169 Linux kernel CVEs that could let an attacker escalate from a compromised application to full system control.
Canonical pulled the Software & Updates GUI from Ubuntu 26.04 because they decided the checkboxes were "dangerous" for you, a person who somehow managed to install Linux.
Tor Browser 16.0a2 lands with a Firefox 147 base, OpenSSL 3.5.5 security patches, and the first glimpse of life after ESR.
A Macron loyalist filed a complaint because he didn't like X's algorithm, and now Europol is calling it a child exploitation investigation.
The Tor Project released Arti 2.0.0 on February 2, 2026, advancing relay infrastructure and eliminating legacy configuration options as the Rust-based implementation moves toward replacing C tor entirely.
A 33-year-old Slovakian man who ran Kingdom Market has pleaded guilty after customs inspectors at Newark Airport found crypto wallets and devices linking him directly to the darknet marketplace.