Tails 7.3.1 Ships with Vertical Tabs and Security Fix
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.
Latest
312 Dormant Silk Road Wallets Spring Back to Life
The 176 transactions over 12 hours suggest either someone methodically testing wallet access or an automated sweep consolidating legacy addresses into modern bech32 format.
Tor Browser 15.0.3: NoScript Goes Independent
The Tor Project now hosts its own NoScript builds, versioned with ".1984" suffixes to mark independence from Mozilla's Add-ons infrastructure.
Omerta Market Lasted 15 Days Before IP Leak Exposure
A darknet market that claimed two years of development leaked its server IP within approximately two weeks of launch.
SimpleX Chat's X Account Hijacked for Crypto Scam
Hackers blocked the company founder from his own brand's account while promoting wallet-draining scam links.
Prison for the competition, settlements for the connected
Federal prosecutors celebrate busting consensual drug sales while pharmaceutical executives who created the opioid epidemic face zero prison time.
The CSAM Buyer Who Ran Bohemia's 12 Million Euro Drug Empire
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 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.
Privacy
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
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
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.
IPFS
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.
Privacy
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
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
Dread + Pitch
When Reddit nuked HugBunter, Dread's top admin did something unprecedented: he told users to join Pitch.
GNUnet
GNUnet 0.26.1 Fixes Database Bugs After Breaking Crypto Update
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.
HugBunter Deleted: Reddit Erases Dread Forum Administrator
The darknet forum owner get's wiped off reddit after years.
ThreeBears Cryptosystem: Why NIST Rejected Integer Lattices
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
$53 Kills the Tor Network
(And They Won't Fix It)
Tails
Tails 7.2: Privacy OS Gets Browser Upgrade and Telemetry Fix
Tails 7.2 ships with Tor Browser 15.0.1, Linux kernel 6.12 LTS, and patches a privacy leak where Thunderbird was phoning home to Mozilla servers.