The fact that "Bitcoin privacy best practices" is a 47-page guide
while Monero's is "send it" tells you everything about which chain respects your time and freedom.

https://www.sambent.com/europol-raids-x-over-crimes-that-dont-exist/

Europol Raids X Over Crimes That Don't Exist...
A Macron loyalist filed a complaint because he didn't like X's algorithm,
and now Europol is calling it a child exploitation investigation.

https://owasp.org/www-community/attacks/xss/

Cross-site scripting attacks explained in detail with real-world examples.
"XSS vulnerabilities are among the most prevalent security issues on the web."
𝗖𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘀-𝗦𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝗦𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝘁𝘁𝗮𝗰𝗸𝘀 by Jeremiah Grossman (2002)

The Tor Project released Arti 2.0.0 on February 2, 2026,
advancing relay infrastructure and eliminating legacy configuration options as the Rust-based implementation moves toward replacing C tor entirely.

https://www.sambent.com/arti-2-0-0-ships-tor-rust-rewrite-hits-major-milestone/

https://youtu.be/Nt8tMiYo4PA
Google paid $170M to the FTC for tracking kids.
That money went to the Treasury general fund.
The families saw zero.
Then lawyers spent 6 years negotiating another $30M.

https://youtu.be/r57V4-3gZws
Palantir worked across Obama, Trump, Biden, and Trump again.
Both parties fund the surveillance state while performing disagreement for cameras.
There is no opposition party.

https://www.sambent.com/tails-7-4-adds-persistent-locale-drops-bittorrent

Linux 6.12.63, Tor Browser 15.0.4, and critical bug fixes
arrive in Tails 7.4 alongside a controversial feature cut.

Privacy isn't for criminals,
it's for everyone who doesn't want strangers watching them take a dump.

https://www.sambent.com/threema-sold-to-private-equity-again
Your encrypted messages sit on infrastructure controlled by a German private equity firm
whose previous acquisitions include Cloud7 premium dog beds and The Tofoo Company.

Cache-timing attacks on AES that broke implementations thought to be secure.

"We describe a new class of attacks that extract secret keys from cryptographic software through cache timing."

- 𝗖𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗲-𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝘁𝘁𝗮𝗰𝗸𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝗔𝗘𝗦 by Daniel J. Bernstein (2005)
https://cr.yp.to/antiforgery/cachetiming-20050414.pdf

Chainalysis has entered the chat and left with nothing.

OPSEC starts with observation.
Do you see what she missed?
The issue here has nothing to do with the USB.
Observation is the foundation of every security discipline, threat detection, phishing identification, social engineering resistance, physical security.
All of it depends on actually seeing what's in front of you.
If you can't register basic environmental data, you're not going to catch the typosquatted domain, the slight URL mismatch, or the badge that doesn't look right.

Yet another reason to self-host.
Be careful out there.

https://thehackernews.com/2026/01/two-chrome-extensions-caught-stealing.html

Remote timing attacks proven practical against real systems over networks.

"We have demonstrated that timing attacks can be practical against real cryptographic implementations over realistic network conditions."
𝗥𝗲𝗺𝗼𝘁𝗲 𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝘁𝘁𝗮𝗰𝗸𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗣𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 by David Brumley and Dan Boneh (2003)

https://crypto.stanford.edu/~dabo/papers/ssl-timing.pdf

How far scammers will go is unknown to humankind,
if you think this guys bad wait till you learn about the federal reserve.

They ban it for a reason, it's dangerous to the system.

Buy Monero.

Don't Trust, Verify.

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