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Steffie 🏳️‍⚧️ :rubber-pride-flag-21303: :triple-moon-transfem: 15h ago

Hackers Expose The Massive Surveillance Stack Hiding Inside Your “Age Verification” Check | Techdirt

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/25/hackers-expose-the-massive-surveillance-stack-hiding-inside-your-age-verification-check/

> In 2,456 publicly accessible files, the code revealed the extensive surveillance Persona software performs on its users, bundled in an interface that pairs facial recognition with financial reporting – and a parallel implementation that appears designed to serve federal agencies.

Hackers Expose The Massive Surveillance Stack Hiding Inside Your “Age Verification” Check

We’ve been saying this for years now, and we’re going to keep saying it until the message finally sinks in: mandatory age verification creates massive, centralized honeypots of sensitiv…

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Jona Joachim 1d ago

PipelineC 2d ago

@nlnet NLnet Foundation funded open source WireGuard router in FPGA. Featuring PipelineC for cryptography blocks 🤓

https://github.com/JulianKemmerer/PipelineC/wiki/Example:-ChaCha20%E2%80%90Poly1305-for-WireGuard

#hardware #fpga #rtl #hdl #hls #verilog #vhdl #cryptography #wireguard #pipelinec

Jona Joachim 1d ago

Laurent Malys 2d ago

A working harmonograph,
designed with @freecad

#FreeCADFriday #drawing #drawingmachine #FreeCAD

Jona Joachim 6d ago

GrapheneOS 6d ago

We strongly oppose the Unified Attestation initiative and call for app developers supporting privacy, security and freedom on mobile to avoid it. Companies selling phones should not be deciding which operating systems people are allowed to use for apps.

https://uattest.net/

Unified Attestation

Unified Attestation is a free, open-source alternative to Google Play Integrity with offline verification and simple app + server integration.

Jona Joachim Mar 5

@jackrhysider
This might interest you:
https://yggleak.top/fr/home/ygg-dossier
French torrent site was taken down by a hacker to expose money laundering, corruption and user exploit. The hacker writes up the entire moral justification and successive exploits that led to the compromise of the entire infrastructure #yggtorrent

YGGtorrent — Fin de partie — YGGLeak

Détournement de cartes bancaires et fingerprinting abusif de ses 6.6 millions d'utilisateurs, DDoS des concurrents, blanchiment de millions d'euros via des montages sophistiqués, fausses identités fabriquées à partir de CNI volées. Dans ce leak vous allez découvrir les coulisses du plus gros tracker torrent francophone.

Jona Joachim Mar 5

Prof. Sam Lawler Feb 11

Reflect Orbital wants to destroy the night sky to deliver "sunlight as a service". SpaceX wants to destroy Low Earth Orbit to launch one million "AI datacentres"

The only way to formally protest these two ideas is to file a comment with the US FCC, which is horribly complicated, but the American Astronomical Society has detailed instructions posted here: https://aas.org/posts/advocacy/2026/02/how-submit-comments-satellite-applications-fcc

Comments due March 6 for SpaceX and March 9 for Reflect Orbital. Write! Write! Write!

Jona Joachim Mar 5

Keep Android Open Mar 5

The first week of our Open Letter to Keep Android Open has been a resounding success! Our signatories list has grown to nearly 50 organizations from 20 countries around the world, including the
@eff, @OpenMediaOrg, @brave, @Vivaldi, and many more!

https://keepandroidopen.org/open-letter/#signatories

An Open Letter to Google regarding Mandatory Developer Registration for Android App Distribution

Open Letter to Google Regarding Mandatory Developer Registration for Third-Party App Distribution

Jona Joachim Mar 5

Jay

Mar 5

This is an incredible expose of YggTorrent, the largest french torrent tracker in the world as written by the person that hacked it. You'll likely need to translate it into English, but it's a worthwhile read for those of you into this sort of thing.

https://yggleak.top/fr/home/ygg-dossier