Session Group Encryption: Sealed Sender Without PFS Tradeoffs

Session trades Perfect Forward Secrecy for metadata minimization, routing encrypted messages through three-hop onion paths to protect sender and recipient identities from network observers.

Cops Keep 90% of What They Seize and Spend It on Clowns

Europol recently announced the seizure of 25 million euros in Bitcoin from cryptocurrency mixer Cryptomixer.io.

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.

Monero Wallet Scanning: How View Tags Cut Sync Time

View tags reduce Monero wallet scanning time by skipping 99.6% of expensive elliptic curve operations using 1-byte matching.

Microsoft Builds Location Tracking Into Teams

Microsoft's newest Teams feature automatically reports your physical location to management whenever you connect to corporate Wi-Fi, turning your laptop into a compliance verification device.

The EU is Destroying Privacy

The EU just approved a negotiating mandate for Chat Control - mass scanning of encrypted communications. Articles 1 and 7 explicitly exempt police, military, intelligence, and EU officials from the scanning. Your messages get monitored. Theirs stay private. Sixty percent of child abuse material worldwide is hosted on EU servers.

Whonix 18 Testing Rewrites Kloak for Wayland Protection

The Tor anonymity OS enters testing with a keystroke anonymization rewrite featuring native Wayland support and IPv6 across the network stack.

Kicksecure Testing Release Brings Hardened Debian Trixie

Cold boot attacks and BadUSB exploits face new obstacles as Kicksecure testing enables RAM wiping and USBGuard out of the box.

Kubo 0.39.0 Makes IPFS Self-Hosting Actually Viable

The DHT sweep provider graduates from experimental to default, finally solving the network congestion problem that made self-hosting IPFS on consumer hardware a nightmare.

Doxing Yourself to (Not) Save Privacy Developers

The petition to pardon Samourai Wallet developers Keonne Rodriguez and William Hill is performative theater that asks privacy advocates to compromise the exact principles these developers are being prosecuted for defending. Rodriguez got five years and Hill got four years for building a Bitcoin wallet that prioritized financial privacy, charged

Germany Is Debanking Dissidents, How Monero Solves This...

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.

Dread + Pitch

When Reddit nuked HugBunter, Dread's top admin did something unprecedented: he told users to join Pitch.