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Kevin Karhan :verified:

@waldoj @dangillmor also I'd strongly advise against doing so as a matter of principle, even if one lives in a juristiction that allows for it.

At most do it like @digitalcourage and give them a "photo ID"!

They ain't no bank and have no "legitimate reason" to demand #KYC!

#Shitpost aside: Just don't use #BrownSky ffs!

digitalcourage.deDer Lichtbildausweis mit Wunschdaten | DigitalcourageEin nichtamtlicher Ausweis hilft, die eigene Identität zu schützen, wenn wissbegierige Behörden, Geschäfte oder Dienstleister ungerechtfertigt nach
#NotLegalAdvice
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Tommaso Gagliardoni

I have been thinking for a while about the issue of anonymity in Web3 (and, more in general, anonymous transactions). The growing realization of the damage caused by decentralized financial technologies is nagging my cypherpunk self, who has been at war for a lifetime against invasive tracking, manipulative marketing, and surveillance capitalism. I collected my thoughts here: gagliardoni.net/#20250427_priv

Spoiler alert: I'm not endorsing backdoors, but I think some middleground solution must be found.

gagliardoni.netTommaso Gagliardoni's Homepage
#horizenlabs#crypto#cryptography
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Kevin Karhan :verified:

Call me weird but I'll only get an #EV if I can charge it as fast as I can gas up my Corsa D and pay for it in cash (or #Monero if I can get Monero for cash w/o #KYC!) and not have all the "#eCall" #tracking bs in it!

YouTubeThe German Car Industry Is Dying - And Cars Like This Audi Q4 E-Tron Are The Reason WhyBy JayEmm on Cars
#enshittification#cars#rich
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Kevin Karhan :verified:

@ajsadauskas @JessTheUnstill @tomiahonen yes, and to add insult to injury #Mozilla didn't even wanted to sell people like @fuchsiii or me a #FirefoxOS device, with the only one being "launched" in the #EU being a #SimLock'd & #NetLock'd #prepaid phone in #Spain one could only attain in-store with all the "#KYC" nonsense they had, demanding a legal address in Spain back then.

And #nerds like myself are far from the "#consoomer #Normies" for whom stuff that isn't on shelves at Staturn/MediaMarkt, BestBuy, Walmart, ... doesn't exist. I'm used to importing #tech that I want!

YouTubeWe Tried Signal's MobileCoin So You Never Have To...By Techlore
#mobilecoin
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Kevin Karhan :verified:

@signalapp It's not #disinfo when one points out that you demand #PII aka. #PhoneNumbers from Users and that is literally a architectural vulnerability, alongside your #proprietary & #Centralized #Infrastructure.

Not to mention the lack of @torproject / #Tor support with an #OnionService or the willingness to fulfill #cyberfacist "Embargoes" or shilling a #Shitcoin #Scam named #MobileCoin!

  • #KYC is the illicit activity!!!

And don't get me started on the #cyberfacism that is #CloudAct.

  • If you were secure, criminals would've used your platform so hard, it would've been shutdown like #EncroChat and #SkyECC.

I may nit have allvthe.evidence yet, but #Signal stenches like #ANØM: #Honeypot-esque!

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Synapsenkitzler 🌻

@heiseonline
"Es gibt staatlich geförderte Studien wie den Glücksspielatlas. Da setzen sich Forscher hin, und machen Umfragen. Wenn da, wie beim Glücksspielatlas 2023, herauskommt, dass viele Menschen ein Spielproblem haben, kommt die Industrie und sagt: Die Daten stimmen gar nicht! Der Staat hat aber alle Daten und könnte das verifizieren. Jetzt haben wir aber Daten aus vielen Casinos. Meine Hoffnung ist, dass ich die Daten Wissenschaftlern oder großen Medienhäusern übergeben kann, damit wir eine datenbasierte Debatte über das gesamte Thema Glücksspiel führen können." 🙏👍
heise.de/hintergrund/Man-hat-s

heise online"Man hat sich einen Dreck um die Sicherheit der Daten der Spieler geschert"Lilith Wittmann hat bei Online-Casinos schwere Sicherheitslücken gefunden. Das Gespräch mit ihr dreht sich nicht nur um Technik, sondern auch eine Behörde.
#glücksspiel#spielsucht#casino
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⚯ Michel de Cryptadamus ⚯

#ZachXBT is probably world's greatest crypto detective. He's pro-crypto but has busted a *ton* of frauds and scams.

Recently he's been working on tracking #NorthKorea's massive money laundering operation in the wake of the #Bybit hack and seems to have concluded that the entire crypto industry is fucked (which some of us have known all along).

* Telegram link: t.co/7Fi2sk1cqF

Investigations by ZachX8T ‘spending long hours helping freeze funds for the Bybit hack has been eye opening. This industry is unbelievably cooked when it ‘comes to exploits/hacks and sadly idk if the. industry is going to fix this itself unless the ‘government forcibly passes regulations that hurt our entire industry. Several “decentralized” protocols have recently had nearly 100% of their monthly volume/fees derived from DPRK and refuse to take any pEet Centralized exchanges end up being worse as e e T T R e T multiple hours to respond when it only takes LTSS KYT is completely flawed and easiy evadable KYCis just a honeypot for regular users bc of breaches/insiders and is useless in majority of cases due to purchased accounts. DPRKaundering $1.48 from the recent hack has P e TR TR LN X PR Y T 2 T Y @ 4319 11:33AM
#DPRK#LazarusGroup#uspol
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Kevin Karhan :verified:

@kuketzblog das größte Problem si d #Zahlungsdienstleister.

  • Wer mit mit "#wero statt #PayPal!" kommt, kauft offensichtlich nirgendwo online ein und außerhalb der #EU ist dies genauso wie #SEPA keine Option, sondern allenfalls lokale Nische alla #AliPay / #WeChatPay und nicht global verfügbar.

Merke: rein regionale oder gar nationale Lösungen sind keine Alternative zum #VISA / #MasterCard / PayPal - #Tripol und sowohl #Stripe als auch #Klarna sind nicht wirklich konkirrenzfähig.

Eher werden wir #Monero als #Zahlungsmittel beim Durchbruch in den globalen Mainstream sehen!

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The Spamhaus Project

Good news (at first glance): Silent Connection Ltd and Dolphin 1337 Limited, two UK-based corporations flagged by Spamhaus as being used for bulletproof hosting, were compulsory dissolved on January 28th and January 14th, respectively. 🙌

Unfortunately, their networks (AS215240 and AS215208) remain active...

Silent Connection quickly secured fresh IP blocks on January 26th through ZeXoTeK IT-Services (whose website, zexotek.de, oddly redirects to Google 🤔). Similarly, Dolphin 1337 Limited acquired new IP space on February 4th.

Even after both companies' were dissolved, these IPs are still operational - effectively making them digital no man’s land.

Luckily, Spamhaus DROP users are protected by the following listings:

⬇️ DROP 176.65.134.0/24 -> check.spamhaus.org/results?que

⬇️ DROP 176.65.139.0/24 -> check.spamhaus.org/results?que

⬇️ DROP 176.65.140.0/23 -> check.spamhaus.org/results?que

⬇️ DROP 176.65.142.0/24 -> check.spamhaus.org/results?que

⬇️ DROP 176.65.144.0/24 -> check.spamhaus.org/results?que

⬇️ DROP 176.65.143.0/24 -> check.spamhaus.org/results?que

This incident highlights why robust customer vetting is a necessity. Silent Connection's imminent dissolution was already visible on the UK company register as of November 5th - a clear red flag. 🚩

Spamhaus recommends always vetting new customers, and checking their commercial registry data before providing services. 🕵

Find a link to the DROP Lists in the comments 👇

#KYC#AbusePrevention#BulletproofHosting
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Kevin Karhan :verified:

@rysiek @agturcz that's not how you fix #TechIlliteracy, espechally since things changed for the better.

@monocles / #monoclesChat & @gajim / #gajim are quite easy, whereas @signalapp / #Signal demands #PII in the form of a #Phone number which is more often than not not legally obtainable without "#KYC" aka. "forced #SelfDoxxing" all whilst being an extremely #centralized, #SingleVendor & #SingleProvider solution that falls under #CloudAct ant thus cannot adhere to #GDPR & #BDSG!

Otherwise we'd only perpetuate the #Enshittification-#Lifecycle as has happened with #AIM, #ICQ, #BBM and so many more...

  • Mark my words, cuz I've been proven correct up to this point.

If #Signal and @Mer__edith actually cared, they would've setup their system truly decentralized as an #OnionService over @torproject / #Tor!

Mastodon 🐘Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 (@rysiek@mstdn.social)@kkarhan@infosec.space I ran and hosted a bunch of XMPP servers a while back. It was a pain to use, and it was easy for users to make mistakes and accidentally send messages in the clear. You are making people les safe. Last time: please stop doing this in my mentions and replies. @agturcz@circumstances.run @torproject@mastodon.social
#THXBYE#EOD#ITsec
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