MUST READ Beginner's guide to Privacy http://defi0xjeff.substack.com/p/beginners-guide-to-privacy

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X has officially launched XChat: - End-to-end encryption – not even X itself can see your content. - Built-in Grok, an AI assistant for your conversations. - No screenshots, no chat recordings, and secret chats with anyone. - Disappearing messages deleted after 5 minutes. - No ads. - Voice and video calls without a phone number. - Send documents, photos, videos, and files. - Group chats for up to 500 people. - Sign up via X account – no phone number required. - Delete messages for all participants.

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Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine https://itsfoss.com/news/firefox-ships-brave-adblock-engine/

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You might think having to enter a 13 digit PIN everytime you want to unlock your phone is too inconvenient. In reality, you can quickly adapt to it to the point where you can unlock your phone almost as quickly as using Face ID or a fingerprint. The more digits, the harder it is to crack. Biometrics are basically worthless from a security perspective since the state's thugs can just force you to unlock your device. With passwords and PIN numbers, the United States high priests have determined that they are protected knowledge and you can not be forced by law enforcement to hand it over. So stop using biometrics to unlock your phone!

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Today in Tails 🧅🌐 🏯 "Don't roll your own crypto" I learned this from Antonopoulos years ago. Decided to save Brave experiment for the future staying with default @torproject browser setup. 🗄️ Persistent Storage Re-attempted to get rid of the Welcome view's Persistent Storage error on an Intel based 2019 MacBook Pro Workaround • Attempt to enable Persistent Storage in Welcome view and then enable again once Tails OS loads for Wi-Fi passwords and browser bookmarks • It was intermittently successful on the Welcome view when Administration Password was set: Welcome view > Additional Settings Attempted solutions • Test all USB ports • Erase USB drive and re-install Tails OS • Delete Persistent Storage and re-enable • Change Passphrase ⚡️ Future tests • Upgrade from USB 3.1 to 3.2 drive • Upgrade from 150:150 MB/s read:write speeds to 1,000:900 MB/s https://x.com/adamshurwitz/status/2046809367895249102

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Dutch data-breach season continues.. Rituals confirmed yesterday that its loyalty program (41M members across 33+ countries) was breached. Names, dates of birth, gender, address, email, phone nrs, store and account types. Affected count not disclosed. https://www.paperweight.email/breaches/rituals

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"We Found a Stable Firefox Identifier Linking All Your Private Tor Identities" https://fingerprint.com/blog/firefox-tor-indexeddb-privacy-vulnerability/ A privacy vulnerability was discovered in Firefox-based browsers that allows websites to create a stable, process-lifetime identifier from the order of IndexedDB databases. This identifier can link activity across unrelated websites during the same browser runtime, even in private browsing modes. In Firefox Private Browsing, the identifier can persist after private windows are closed, as long as the browser process remains active. The vulnerability bypasses Tor Browser's 'New Identity' feature, which is intended to reset user activity and provide unlinkability. The issue stems from the indexedDB.databases() API returning database metadata in an order derived from internal storage structures rather than creation order. This order is deterministic for a given browser process and is shared across all origins, making it a cross-site tracking vector. The vulnerability breaks user expectations that unrelated websites cannot identify the same browser instance and that private session data is cleared upon session end. Mozilla has released a fix in Firefox 150 and ESR 140.10.0, addressing the underlying IndexedDB implementation. The fix involves canonicalizing or sorting the results of indexedDB.databases() to remove the identifying entropy. This vulnerability highlights how seemingly harmless implementation details can lead to significant privacy leaks and emphasizes the importance of careful design in privacy-sensitive features.

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Privacy Setup for Android 16 with GrapheneOS https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/privacy-setup-for-android-16-with-grapheneos/

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Investigative journalist Whitney Webb says that the synchronised global effort to roll out digital ID is driven by its critical role in implementing Agenda 2030. "CBDCs and digital IDs are meant to go together... Without digital IDs, the CBDC digital finance system cannot exist." "They have to know who you are. And so they want to have your wallet tied to a digital ID, and have that digital ID be mapped to your physical ID through the biometric data collection." "If you don't participate in digital ID, you won't have a legally recognised identity, you won't have rights, you won't be able to access services without it." https://t.me/kazanireads

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Original GrapheneOS responses to WIRED fact checker https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/34369-original-grapheneos-responses-to-wired-fact-checker

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DuckDuckGo Successfully Passes VPN Audit DuckDuckGo has announced the results of an independent audit conducted on its VPN service, which verifies its compliance with its no-data-logging policy. The review, carried out by the cybersecurity firm Securitum between October 2025 and January 2026, included a detailed technical analysis, source code review, and an evaluation of live systems. The key findings confirm that the VPN neither collects nor stores information that could identify users, nor does it track their browsing activity, thereby strictly adhering to the company's privacy pledges. https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/static-assets/pdfs/Securitum_DuckDuckGo_VPN-No-Log-Policy-Audit_20260320.pdf

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Monero Community Crowdfunding System https://ccs.getmonero.org/ideas/

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Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/anthropic-spyware/

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Computer is scary today. Learning how to use Tails and Tor Project. 💾💻 https://x.com/adamshurwitz/status/2045906868929798488

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Age/ID Verification & The Me-Me Mind Virus and why we will never 'win' https://github.com/BryanLunduke/DoesItAgeVerify https://agelesslinux.org/distros.html https://thetruthaddict.substack.com/p/ageid-verification-and-the-me-me

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