RE: https://hachyderm.io/@nathandyer/116553199114385177

And he was essentially murdered by MIT, the US government, and the copyright industry at age 26 for attempting to liberate academic knowledge.

Meanwhile, folks wholesale downloading the Internet today are heralded as the new captains of industry.

A new #HackerHistory is out!

This time we hear the story of Pyr0

Pyr0 tells us about a new upcoming conference all about hacker history, NaClCON

Then we hear about a lot of awesome hacker history

It's a great story!

https://hackerhistory.com/podcast/the-history-of-pyr0/

Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry https://xcancel.com/Fried_rice/status/2038894956459290963 😂

Guess what? Most of code is either slop or even old good regex like for detecting negative sentiment in users prompt which is then logged

https://github.com/chatgptprojects/claude-code/blob/642c7f944bbe5f7e57c05d756ab7fa7c9c5035cc/src/utils/userPromptKeywords.ts#L8

These tools are going to replace 80% of all dev jobs and their plugin is gonna maintain all security and banking code? 🤡

Et tu, Notepad++?

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/hijacked-incident-info-update/

curl, which is one of the most popular CLI/API tools for network requests and data transfer on Linux/Unix, is to discontinue its HackerOne bug bounty program due to "too strong incentives to find and make up 'problems' in bad faith that cause overload and abuse".

The authors simply cannot keep up with LLM-generated fake security reports created to collect money using bots. So, it now shuts down at the end of January 2026. This is why we can't have good things

https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/20312

Here is @pluralistic's absolute stormer of a talk from the 39th #CCC #39C3 (28-12-2025):

https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-a-post-american-enshittification-resistant-internet

"Enshittification wasn't an accident. It also wasn't inevitable... Named individuals, in living memory, enacted policies that created the enshittogenic environment... Well, when life gives you SARS, you make sarsaparilla. The Trump tariffs are here and it's time to pick the locks on those handcuffs and set the world's hackers loose on Big Tech. Happy Liberation Day, everyone!"

The Treasury Department has taken three people closely affiliated with the holding company behind Predator spyware off a sanctions list, reversing their designation in 2024 by the Biden administration.

https://therecord.media/treasury-sanctions-intellexa-removed

EFF teamed up with AV Comparatives to see how well anti-virus apps detect stalkerware on Android phones.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/eff-teams-av-comparatives-test-android-stalkerware-detection-major-antivirus-apps