Avatar
banjo
94f66a6138a20e120cefbe343103186804847ad9619316761e3e76a062d5fed0
"Freedom of speech is being able to tell someone else something they don't want to hear." "No matter what you say, someone is going to be offended." "Once you realize that politicians are not altruistic, and that they're in politics for themselves and their own personal gain, then everything makes sense." "No one is above the law." "Have you ever met a poor politician?"

Or was it simply the SEC, posting some "spam" to make it look like a hack, to help cover the mistake?

Remember--the governments are masters at deflection and propaganda...

4D chess....

Fishy--this is always the "excuse" given by Govt when a leak occurs. How many times have we heard "Oh, my account got hacked!!" when someone gets caught.

I suspect someone at the SEC let the cat out of the bag early---

"compromised" is such a vague word--more to this story (but the truth (as per the norm in government) we'll never get to hear).

So I smell a rat...the was an early leak, and we always "blame" a hack when something shows up early on Twitter...

It's the standard explanation used when you have an "oops"...time will tell, but this feels like a "convenient" excuse...

I do think the leveraged longs will need to be liquidated, and that $40K or so will be in play when that happens.

Having said that, I'd certainly love to be wrong... 😃

Everyone is different, and for many, having someone else custody their coins makes sense.

It is (after all) exactly why banks were created in the first place...to help protect people's investments in a safe place so that they wouldn't be lost in some type of catastrophe.

Despite what banks have become(!) that use case still exists....

IMHO No--you need a place to live, and real estate is (and *always* will be) a valuable asset.

God only made a finite supply of it... 😃

Pro/Con of Privacy Routers

The router you get from your ISP is designed to spy on you. It knows which devices are sending which traffic and what guests are connecting to it. If you don’t use a VPN every second, then when you take the VPN down, you’re vulnerable to hackers first hacking the router, to then install malware on your devices (phones/laptop). For example Wikileaks shows the CIA loves to do this. Ok, so how do you get a “private” router?

A privacy router is just regular hardware with a new operating system. But not all hardware supports flashing a new operating system. So either check the manufacturer’s website, or just ask their support “what routers let me flash my own firmware?”. Then just like a stock Android phone being “DeGoogled”, you flash on a new operating system.

The following list goes over SOME of the more popular open source router operating systems. It’s not complicated, they are grouped into “home router” or “firewall”. The firewall is faster and more secure, but costs a little more and is harder to setup.

DD-WRT

Type: Home Router w/ WiFi

Pro: This OS can be flashed on many home routers including Netgear and Asus. It’s fine for just routing traffic and it has WiFi. Support on forums is great, they are nice and friendly. A VPN can be put on it but…

~

Con: These home routers are much slower for VPNs to be put directly on the router. Also the DD-WRT website is volunteer run, so it often will be dated for your model. You’ll have to post on their forum asking for the new version.

Solutions: Use WireGuard instead of OpenVPN on home routers. If the 2-minute logging of WireGuard concerns you, then a home router isn’t for you and get a firewall.

OpenWRT

Type: Home or Travel Router w/ WiFi

Pro: This is similar to DD-WRT, but also has a Tor option. OpenWRT also can be flashed on travel routers (Glinet routers or Rasberry Pi).

Con: For VPNs, it’s a more complex setup than DD-WRT, and not worth it in my opinion unless you are doing a travel router or Tor. Only do Tor if you have fast internet to begin with, otherwise it’s unbearable. Support on OpenWRT forums sucks, these guys are rude.

PfSense

Type: Firewall WITHOUT WiFi

Pro: Enterprise Grade Firewalls have a higher level security than home routers and the ability to handle better hardware for VPN speed. Netgear runs this and they spend a lot of development. Firewalls are much better than home routers with their features and barely more expensive now. The costs for firewall hardware have come down significantly and are now in the $200 or under range! Support on pfSense forums is average.

~

Con: The free open source version is being phased out for a paid version. 2nd con is that pfSense takes more time to setup and learn than the others on the list. Remember, hardware firewalls don’t have WiFi. So you’ll need to do:

pfSense → DD-WRT or OpenWRT for WiFi.

OPNsense

Type: Firewall WITHOUT WiFi

Pro: This is a fork of pfSense, but more consistent with the open source/freedom aspect. This is my current recommendation as pfSense slowly shifts to a paid model . All the same pro as pfSense.

~

Con: Firewalls still mean you’re doing more learning than home routers. OPNsense redid the GUI from pfSense, so if you’re coming from pfSense then they created pointless learning work for similar features. Development wise, Less money is spent on OPNsense than pfSense.

Conclusion

If you want help with configuring or flashing your router, then reach out to us. Don’t accidentally brick or ruin your router. Save yourself hours of headache and hassle, and get the advanced configurations you need for VPNs/Tor, advanced security, and anonymity.

Session ID: Support / Signal #: +855 68 504 905 / SimpleX, email, or protonmail links on site

Agree - running OPNsense currently on a Protectli dedicated box. Good advice.

One of my mantras:

"You can teach anyone you meet something that you can do better than they can...and anyone you meet can teach you something that they can do better than you."

The trick is to be open to discovering together what those things are...

Don't blame Jack. NY is not part of America - just one more reason to move away from that dystopian state.

Whatever you think about J6, the ability to imprison US citizens without being charged, without a trial, without any hope is simply evil.

It is not only unconstitutional, it's dystopian, and it originates from a dystopian government.

GM Nostr and GM to my cup 'o Joe

#coffeechain

This is cool--thanks for sharing!

Yup...same here...just seems to reset itself. Intermittent...and sometimes (along with other bugs) closing and reopening the browser seems to help.

I also notice that the "new notes" notification is spotty - works great most of the time, but at other times, no notification (and again closing the browser seems to help).

Never understood folks that live in the city...but to each his own. Clearly there are plenty of folks that enjoy life in a big city! 😃