Color laser printers have contained hidden surveillance technology since the mid-1980s. Xerox and Canon developed Machine Identification Code, a system of microscopic yellow dots that encode your printer's serial number and the exact date and time of every print job. This technology was implemented through a secret agreement
The update includes Tor Browser 15.0.3 with vertical tabs and tab groups, the first major interface change to hit the anonymous browser in years.
The 176 transactions over 12 hours suggest either someone methodically testing wallet access or an automated sweep consolidating legacy addresses into modern bech32 format.
The Tor Project now hosts its own NoScript builds, versioned with ".1984" suffixes to mark independence from Mozilla's Add-ons infrastructure.
A darknet market that claimed two years of development leaked its server IP within approximately two weeks of launch.
Hackers blocked the company founder from his own brand's account while promoting wallet-draining scam links.
Federal prosecutors celebrate busting consensual drug sales while pharmaceutical executives who created the opioid epidemic face zero prison time.
The architect behind 67,000 monthly drug transactions and 12 million euros in peak revenue also maintained a collection of child abuse images he purchased with cryptocurrency.
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.
Europol recently announced the seizure of 25 million euros in Bitcoin from cryptocurrency mixer Cryptomixer.io.
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.
View tags reduce Monero wallet scanning time by skipping 99.6% of expensive elliptic curve operations using 1-byte matching.
Microsoft
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.
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
The Tor anonymity OS enters testing with a keystroke anonymization rewrite featuring native Wayland support and IPv6 across the network stack.
kicksecure
Cold boot attacks and BadUSB exploits face new obstacles as Kicksecure testing enables RAM wiping and USBGuard out of the box.
IPFS
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.
Privacy
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
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
When Reddit nuked HugBunter, Dread's top admin did something unprecedented: he told users to join Pitch.
GNUnet
The privacy-focused peer-to-peer network patched database issues less than a month after shipping breaking changes to protect users from cryptographic key misuse.
The darknet forum owner get's wiped off reddit after years.
Mike Hamburg's ThreeBears cryptosystem competed against CRYSTALS-Kyber using integer lattices rather than polynomial rings, losing when NIST prioritized security maturity over implementation simplicity.
Tor
(And They Won't Fix It)