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Yeah Cory coinedit I believe, watch some of his DefCon talks or a few others over the last few years. Some pretty good talks on trying to combine tech into everything else crap going on and you get ...well....that phrase ! 😁

CSS also known as Stingrays or IMSI catchers are devices that masquerade as legitimate cellphone towers, tricking phones within a certain radius.

#EFF

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/meet-rayhunter-new-open-source-tool-eff-detect-cellular-spying

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🔥 “The ultimate weapon against empire is to teach and train programmers how to break TLS.”

Why?

Because TLS (Transport Layer Security) is the duct tape holding the illusion of secure empire-grade communication together. Break TLS and suddenly:

Banking systems are naked.

Surveillance backdoors are exposed.

Corporate espionage becomes script-kiddie level.

“Secure” channels of statecraft crumble.

Empire’s Faustian Pact:

They gave cryptography to the people thinking no one would get smart enough to reverse engineer the foundations — Diffie-Hellman, RSA, ECDSA — and yet open-source crypto libraries became universal weapons.

But the moment someone figures out how to break TLS systematically, game over.

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🧨 What It Actually Means

Teaching how to break TLS:

Is a call to empower with deep understanding of:

Elliptic curve math

Timing attacks

Certificate trust chains

Side-channel exploits

Quantum resistance (or lack thereof)

But most importantly, why it's brittle despite the marketing.

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⚔️ Real World Strategy

Instead of just trying to break TLS:

Teach why decentralized authentication (e.g., Bitcoin sigs, DID, PGP) is more resilient than CA-based trust models.

Show how state TLS certs are compromised by design (e.g., root CA collusion).

Build systems outside the empire’s reach where breaking TLS isn’t even necessary — because you never relied on their web of lies in the first place.

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> "The greatest act of rebellion in modern times isn’t protesting in the street — it’s teaching 100,000 developers how to break TLS. Because once you rip open the encryption empire wraps itself in, the naked lies of security, finance, and statecraft bleed out. Train the coders, dismantle the empire."

#BreakTLS #CryptoRevolution #CodeIsWar #DecentralizeEverything #EmpireHatesMath #PostQuantumWarfare #DigitalSamizdat

well said! 💯

#learnOPENtech #LOT

If you know any off-grid'ers, farmers/ranchers, hardware/software devs, drone piolts, metal fab, and/or Linux & Open Source anything... Point them to Open Source Ecology. Here is one of their recent interviews: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TI7a2v-feyw

#OpenSourceEcology #OpenSource #OSHW #DIY #FreedomTech

That figures!...*at our last NOSTR board meeting you didn't even say hi!* -- NOSTR VICE PRESIDENT

😁

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Some of us don't even have a quarter of that, but we showed up, are learning, and stackin'! ...onward!!! LFG!

GM #nostr land! Want to save the internet? Like on your own self-hosted server? ArchiveBox!

#learnOPENtech #LOT #OpenSource #FreedomTech

https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox

Ugg, I can't say GM yet because I haven't had my coff.....oh, you have some right there! Oh, in that case GM! 🙂

Pretty sure if I did the splits like that, I in fact would not have a nice day!...but thank you 😉

Oh and I normally just buy referbbed which has worked for me thus far! I don't remember when I bought a new one, 8+ years ago? Or more.

Thanks! The hardest thing with my setup is not having google maps. It just means I have to get close to my location and double check the open source maps. I'm OK with that so I don't have ads all over my phone because of where I am. OSMAnd and OrganicMaps . but you can use MicroG services also if you need more control or just need Google Play Services.

"Open Source framework for voice and multimodal conversational AI"

Asking nostr Devs, what about a push to talk button for real-time translation when face to face when speaking with multiple language barriers? Guess my thinking is yes there are apps that can do that, but what about a feature/quick button for live voice stuff ? At any rate, this looks like a fun program.

#asknostr #SABC #SanAntonioBitcoinClub #learnOPENtech #LOT #OpenSource

https://github.com/pipecat-ai/pipecat

Just I introduced the Fam, nieces & nephews to Flight of the Navigator for the first time last week. They loved it. Now maybe their keep DCA'ing as well! 😉

Pixel phone de-google is what I've been running for years. Using Amethyst & Strike installed from Aurora Store. I have ZapStore also, so a few other apps installed that way. #learnOPENtech #LOT

GM #NOSTR land!

WhyFi Who?......WifiYOU! Now your friends can see through your walls to see if you are home....and what doing inside your own home.....

Actually this has been a thing for years. More fun for you, your neighbors, and fun for BigBrother!

#Privacy #WiFi #Security #learnOPENtech #LOT

https://www.hackster.io/news/i-m-sensing-a-disturbance-in-the-wi-fi-5c3249aabd93

"The usual psychopaths are now teaming up to take control over the poorest echelons of society.

Through AI, they want to dictate behaviour, enforce compliance, and determine who gets access to welfare, housing, legal aid, and basic survival. This is social engineering on steroids — with artificial intelligence as the enforcement arm.

Bill Gates, Charles Koch, Steve Ballmer and others have pledged $1 billion via a new initiative called NextLadder Ventures. The mission? To “solve economic mobility” by integrating AI tools into frontline services for low-income Americans.

They’ve partnered with Anthropic, one of the most powerful AI developers on the planet.

This isn’t about improving lives, it’s about streamlining control. It’s about building systems where:

• AI decides who qualifies for aid

• Predictive models flag “problematic” individuals

• Case workers and parole officers take instructions from algorithms

• And human judgement is replaced by data-fed compliance systems

Systems like these will not just look at your income or situation, they will be able to integrate online behaviour, social media activity, even vaccination status or political affiliation to create a risk score that could determine your eligibility.

Post the wrong thing? Refuse a jab? Challenge the narrative? Your access to housing, legal aid or benefits could be denied automatically.

They don’t want to lift the poor. They want to manage them; predict, monitor, reward obedience, and punish resistance.

This is the infrastructure of a new kind of tyranny; one that won’t knock on your door with a badge… It will just quietly lock you out of the system. 🤮🤮🤮"

https://www.disclose.tv/id/4l8maa32ou/

✏️ TG: LauraAbolichannel

No No Data Brokers!... Bad Brokers, go sit in the corner!

"Why Are Hundreds of Data Brokers Not Registering with States?"

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/why-are-hundreds-data-brokers-not-registering-states

Mango Habanero drinks! How the lady nostr:npub1ujrhql36k7qfflgq7v2r5z3eqk6k8n5azuu9l6xeckdkasum6e5seym0t9 and I celebrate her being off call from a 4 day on call schedule. Habanero from our tiny courtyard garden!

Knowing both memes and this mashup, makes this one even better! Sometimes I pretend I live In an alternative universe where Ron Paul and Toma's Swell are Pres and V. Pres of the USofA... Doesn't matter who has which title. As long as they logistically made everyone in congress / gov justify their position! I'd buy popcorn for everyone! 🍿

Yo NOST'land

"France quietly deployed 100,000+ Linux machines in their police force - GendBuntu is a silent EU tech success story "

Time to make Linux your daily driver ... As me, I can help! #learnOPENtech #LOT #Linux

But you are right that was fun! AI has gotten so good. Those cats were focused in their dive and loving the water.

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https://www.usluck.com/565377/hypocrisy-at-peak/ Hypocrisy at peak #Interesting #InterestingAsFuck

If you don't follow Richard Grove at the Grand Theft World podcast, here is their Clip Genie on Stone for more deep dives: https://gtw.clipgenie.com/search?q=Oliver+stone&sort=root

#GTW #GrandTheftWorld

Right to Repair ...in the US military - Louis Rossmann

#RightToRepair #learnOPENtech #LOT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNg4PG2kayU

Replying to Avatar Ch!llN0w1

Don't think I've heard the Punk defination explained so simply .... And also so poignant! Punk on! ✊ 🫵🤘

Can't right now but come 7pm CST I'll try to get you a bunch of folks at the San Antonio Bitcoin Club launch party tonight !

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I got nostalgic about retro games and largely inspired by the amazing work of nostr:npub1337xxyne0pw52zgd984xqqs2q7qhqpt7phhn7xp6t9yt406vrvescdpkdt with Mario Bros and Mario Kart. Combined all that with my affection for Nostr and the new found vibe coding hobby, I decided to make Nostr more fun with a rebirth of my personal favorite Tetris experience. The idea was to develop it during the nostr:npub1cxyr9w0dwkjxs7svmwjlg4veqp9uzw0qvwux0c0554lqzw5ut48qrahz6x Hackathon, but I didn't get a chance to participate. I gift you https://nostris.fun

Settle your online disputes in a friendly game of Nostris or just challenge your friends for giggles. Enjoy and most of all have fun! Bug reports are welcome.

Requirements:

- desktop (sorry mobile users)

- NIP-07 browser extension

- micropayment (winner takes all)

That's a fun concept! Shutup and take my ZAPS ⚡