Mastodawn

Sam Bent 17h ago

The state will always side with the franchise over the independent because the franchise pays lobbyists.

Sam Bent 1d ago

Virtualization security and hypervisor isolation mechanisms.

"Virtual machine monitors must provide strong isolation between guest operating systems."

- 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗺𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗩𝗠/𝟯𝟳𝟬 𝗛𝘆𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗿 by R.J. Creasy (1981)
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/800217.806615

Sam Bent 3d ago

Monero didn't come from a whitepaper and a marketing team,
it's the direct descendant of four decades of cypherpunk work from Chaum, Zimmermann, May, Back, Finney, and Szabo,
built by people who actually read their papers.

Sam Bent 5d ago

The fact that the first list is longer than the second list by itself is actually kind of reassuring.
The fact that we even need these lists is pathetic.

Sam Bent 6d ago

Renovated DarkwebDaily.Live with a fresher UI. Added a statistics page too. Use the above url or the onion: http://dailydwusclfsu7fzwydc5emidexnesmdlzqmz2dxnx5x4thl42vj4qd.onion/ No JS.

Sam Bent 6d ago

"Tainted coins" is a concept that only exists when your blockchain snitches on transaction history.

Sam Bent Apr 6

Ken Thompson's acceptance speech for the Turing Award on security thinking.

"The moral is obvious. You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself."

- 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 by Butler Lampson (2004)
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2004/06/Computer-Security-in-the-Real-World.pdf

Sam Bent Apr 5

Name one other service where the provider threatens you with prison for refusing to pay.

Sam Bent Apr 4

Most Tor Docker images are running outdated Tor, no guard protection, and leave telemetry on by default.
HiddenForge v2.0.0 (my creation):
Tor 0.4.9.6 + Vanguards,
every dependency SHA256-pinned,
zero telemetry,
read-only filesystem,
rootless Podman support.

Built for a state-level adversary threat model.

https://github.com/DoingFedTime/HiddenForge
https://hub.docker.com/r/doingfedtime/hiddenforge

Sam Bent Apr 4

Monero has survived ten years on donations and volunteer labor while VC-backed "privacy" projects burned through millions building compliance tools,
turns out you don't need a marketing budget when the product actually works.

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