Mastodawn

Wired made a short video about our launch! ( Apologies for the Instagram platform )

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DSF9d5XEctq

WIRED on Instagram: "Privacy stalwart Nicholas Merrill spent a decade fighting an FBI surveillance order. Now he wants to sell you phone service—without knowing almost anything about you. Tap the 🔗 in bio for more."

73K likes, 956 comments - wired on December 10, 2025: "Privacy stalwart Nicholas Merrill spent a decade fighting an FBI surveillance order. Now he wants to sell you phone service—without knowing almost anything about you. Tap the 🔗 in bio for more.".

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Nick Merrill Dec 11

The Tor Project Dec 11

What does it take for a distributed community to organize its own gathering from scratch? Earlier this year, a group of Tor folks set out to prove that community-organized meetings can work on a shoestring budget. But why?
https://blog.torproject.org/bringing-tor-community-together/

Twenty contributors, three days, one goal: Bringing the Tor community together | Tor Project

Nick Merrill Dec 6

Phreeli Dec 6

Check out our white paper about Phreeli's "Double Blind Armadillo", a new system architecture and cryptographic protocol that integrates unlinkability, blind relay, and blind tokens to enhance user privacy. Traditional, account-based authorization models present privacy risks because all user actions and data can be correlated to create a profile, which is often linked to the user’s real-world identity. Double Blind Armadillo addresses this problem.
https://www.phreeli.com/blog/DoubleBlindArmadillo

Double-Blind Armadillo: Enabling Privacy with Unlinkability

Double-Blind Armadillo is a new privacy-focused system architecture and cryptographic protocol designed around the principle that no single party should be able to connect an individual’s real identity, payments, and phone records.

Nick Merrill Dec 4

WIRED Dec 4

A New Anonymous Phone Carrier Lets You Sign Up With Nothing but a Zip Code
https://www.wired.com/story/new-anonymous-phone-carrier-sign-up-with-nothing-but-a-zip-code/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Longreads @longreads-WIRED

A New Anonymous Phone Carrier Lets You Sign Up With Nothing but a Zip Code

Privacy stalwart Nicholas Merrill spent a decade fighting an FBI surveillance order. Now he wants to sell you phone service—without knowing almost anything about you.

WIRED

Nick Merrill Dec 4

Phreeli Dec 4

#Wired Magazine just published an article about our launch ! 🙌 Phreeli is the world’s first #PrivacyByDesign wireless service:

https://www.wired.com/story/new-anonymous-phone-carrier-sign-up-with-nothing-but-a-zip-code/

A New Anonymous Phone Carrier Lets You Sign Up With Nothing but a Zip Code

Privacy stalwart Nicholas Merrill spent a decade fighting an FBI surveillance order. Now he wants to sell you phone service—without knowing almost anything about you.

WIRED

Nick Merrill Apr 13, 2025

yawnbox Nov 12, 2024

tools like @torproject, @securedrop (by @freedomofpress) and @signalapp are going to be so important for protecting people in the coming years. please support them

#privacy #security #anonymity #journalism #whistleblowing

Nick Merrill Feb 21, 2025

alcinnz Feb 18, 2025

Reviewing the Cryptography Used by Signal - Soatok:
https://soatok.blog/2025/02/18/reviewing-the-cryptography-used-by-signal/

I'll read the other pages of this series later...

Reviewing the Cryptography Used by Signal - Dhole Moments

Last year, I urged furries to stop using Telegram because it doesn’t actually provide them with any of the privacy guarantees they think it gives them. Instead of improving Telegram’s c…

Dhole Moments

Nick Merrill Feb 21, 2025

SecureDrop Feb 18, 2025

We’ve seen significant interest in newsrooms setting up SecureDrop to better protect whistleblowers, so we've put together a quick list of 5 key things you should know before setting it up:

https://securedrop.org/news/five-things-to-know-about-securedrop/

#SecureDrop #security #whistleblowing #OpenSource

Five things to know about SecureDrop

Over the past month, we’ve seen significant interest in newsrooms setting up SecureDrop. We’re excited to see more adoption of SecureDrop. Here are five things you should know before getting started:

SecureDrop

Nick Merrill Feb 14, 2025