The Surveillance Architect Running Signal Engineering

Signal just rolled out centralized backups, and the guy who announced it has quite the resume. Jim O'Leary, Signal's VP of Engineering since 2019, spent the previous eight years building surveillance infrastructure at Twitter and Facebook.

Building Anti-Surveillance Infrastructure: Brave's Technical Evolution

Brave Browser handles 94 million users monthly with zero dependency on Google or Microsoft servers, and Big Tech should be terrified of what this proves.

BGPStream Hijack Detection: Automated Prefix Monitoring and Alerts

BGPStream enables automated BGP hijack detection through real-time routing analysis and CLI automation that identifies prefix hijacking and generates security alerts for network operators.

Vaultwarden: Stop Feeding the Surveillance Economy That's Stealing Your Life

Cloud password managers aren't protecting your data, they're collecting it for profit while making you the product in a surveillance economy that profits from your digital enslavement.

ECDH Security Theater, Why Most Implementations Fail

Most ECDH implementations contain fatal flaws that let attackers recover private keys through mathematical manipulation.

I2P Garlic Routing: Hop Metadata Privacy and Timing Resistance

I2P garlic routing provides enhanced anonymity through multi-layered encryption and timing correlation resistance mechanisms that protect hop metadata and defeat traffic analysis attacks.

Monero's View Key Trust Problem: When Privacy Requires Perfect Operational Security

Monero view keys enable transaction detection without spending authority, but the operational security requirements around view key management expose users to surveillance risks that the privacy coin community rarely discusses honestly.

theHarvester Custom Modules: LinkedIn Enumeration and Breach Correlation

theHarvester custom modules enable specialized OSINT collection through LinkedIn enumeration and breach data correlation, providing comprehensive intelligence gathering capabilities for security research.

Syncthing Eliminates File Sync Surveillance Through Mesh Architecture

Syncthing connects your devices directly to each other, eliminating corporate surveillance while navigating complex network security challenges that most users never consider.

Shamir's Secret Sharing: Polynomial Interpolation Over GF(256)

Shamir's Secret Sharing splits a secret into multiple pieces called shares, where any specified number of shares can reconstruct the original secret, but fewer shares reveal nothing.

How Apple Killed a Global Encryption Backdoor Demand

The UK government secretly demanded that Apple build a permanent backdoor into iCloud encryption that would have compromised the privacy of millions of users worldwide.

Tor Onion v3 Services: Descriptor Rotation and Scalability

Tor onion v3 services utilize Ed25519 cryptography and sophisticated descriptor rotation protocols to achieve enhanced security and scalability for anonymous hidden service operations.

Monero

Monero Subaddress Scanning: View Key Performance Optimization

Monero subaddress scanning optimization achieves 10-20x performance improvements through batch processing, parallel algorithms, and database indexing for high-volume wallet synchronization.

crypto

Cake Wallet's Support is the model

Customer service at company's and organizations usually sucks. Cake Wallet's should be the industry standard. Yet another reason why banks suck.

Amass

Amass-Nmap Integration: Automated Reconnaissance Pipelines

Amass-Nmap integration creates automated reconnaissance pipelines combining comprehensive subdomain enumeration with detailed port scanning and service detection for complete attack surface mapping.

Tails

Tails Persistent Volumes: LUKS Configuration for Plausible Deniability

Tails persistent volumes combine LUKS disk encryption with anti-forensic measures and plausible deniability techniques to protect sensitive data while maintaining operational security.

cybersecurity

[URGENT] DEF CON Researcher Exposes How Password Managers Betray Your Trust

Czech security researcher Marek Tóth demonstrated at DEF CON 33 how a single click on any malicious website can steal passwords, credit cards, and 2FA codes from 40 million users of major password managers, with vendors like 1Password and LastPass refusing to fix the vulnerabilities.

AES-GCM

AES-GCM Nonce Reuse: Detection and Mitigation of Cryptographic Failures

AES-GCM nonce reuse enables complete cryptographic compromise through forbidden attacks that recover authentication keys and forge arbitrary ciphertexts via polynomial interpolation in finite fields.

IPFS

IPFS libp2p PubSub: Gossip Protocol Resilience Under Node Churn

libp2p PubSub maintains reliable message propagation under 40-60% node churn through GossipSub protocols, mesh healing algorithms, and adaptive peer scoring that ensures delivery guarantees.

nextdns

NextDNS Bypasses ID BS

NextDNS just proved you can fight policy overreach at the resolver, with a user‑controlled toggle that doesn’t ask for your papers.

Monero

Monero CLSAG Signatures: Linkable Ring Aggregation and Privacy Analysis

CLSAG signatures reduce Monero transaction sizes by 25% through efficient ring signature aggregation while maintaining identical anonymity guarantees and preventing double-spending via deterministic key images.

SpiderFoot

How SpiderFoot CLI Automation Transforms OSINT Reconnaissance Into Scalable Threat Intelligence Operations

SpiderFoot CLI automation enables large-scale subdomain enumeration and threat intelligence gathering through 200+ reconnaissance modules, processing thousands of targets while maintaining operational security.

Nextcloud

How Nextcloud End-to-End Encryption Achieves Zero-Knowledge File Storage Through Client-Side Key Management

Nextcloud E2EE implements client-side encryption with hierarchical key management, enabling zero-knowledge cloud storage where server administrators cannot access encrypted file contents even with full system privileges.

infosec

How Weak Passwords Beat Strong Passwords [video]

Password stretching is cool, in this video we look at the basics.