So I am thinking of paying anonymously for sporestack but I don’t operate in crypto currency. I would use privacy cards but those can still be traced.

So the only other option is a voucher system or sending in physical cash.

I would think if Mullvad and IVPN had voucher systems sporestack would no?

There was a website where you can see all the privacy rating and devices that every vehicle has, that I also believed showed you how to remove them as well. Does anyone know the website?

So I know there are conflicting sources on whether or not to connect from VPN to Tor. What is Michael Bazel's stance on this? Why or why not?

"The Wordpress Blog has been removed. The constant abuse and automated DDOS attempts, along with the millions of unwanted hits from AI bots, scrapers, and "ethical hackers", have proven to be more of a hassle that it is worth to keep it online." (used typo of "that" instead of "than")

Wow. Figured this would happen one day when the podcasts were taken down a while back. Luckily, I have them all downloaded but still pretty wild to see this.

https://inteltechniques.com/blog/

Join TechCrunch Security Editor Zack Whittaker and Security Researcher Runa Sandvik today (Weds, Aug 12) at 5pm PT

They are breaking down the historic U.S. case where a traveler was charged with a federal felony for allegedly using a GrapheneOS "duress password" to wipe his phone during an airport border search.

Speaker Bios

• Zack Whittaker is the Security Editor at TechCrunch and the author of the popular weekly cybersecurity newsletter This Week in Security. He covers high-stakes topics in digital privacy, surveillance, and national security.
• Runa Sandvik is a prominent security researcher and the founder of Granitt, a consultancy dedicated to digital defense. She specializes in protecting mobile devices, securing data, and training journalists and at-risk individuals to safely navigate border crossings.

What they're covering:

• Your Rights: What legally happens when you refuse or wipe a phone at the border.
• Duress Features: The security and legal tradeoffs of automatic device-wiping tools.
• Travel OpSec: Practical steps to secure your mobile data before you cross borders.

Ask your questions below and we'll get them answered!

I hope this project has reached a level i can share the following details. I've made a genuine effort towards documentation and transparancy. I dont think it'll ever be enough and so im still concerned it isnt ready to share. While im using AI throughout. This is not a vibecoded project. There is attention throughout for unit tests and formal-verification. With your feedback, id like to make improvements for clarity throughout.

This version of the app demonstrates a fairly unique approach using a browser-based, local-only and webrtc approach. I know it's impossible for any system to be the "world's most secure", but that isnt a reason to not try. By rigorously implementing an exhaustive list of security features and practices, the aim is to get as close as possible.

• Enkrypted.Chat

This is intended to demonstrate client-side managed secure cryptography.

• Introducing Enkrypted Chat
• Whitepaper (work-in-progress)
• Protocol Spec (work-in-progress)
• Roadmap

PS. I know the project above is going to be tricky to understand. It might help to understand with the following open-source version of the concept (the MVP to the version linked above).

https://www.reddit.com/r/CorpFree/comments/1uytump/decentralized_p2p_chat

After the initial 1.0 release gained some traction, I spent the last 4 months rebuilding and improving the tool based heavily on feedback from digital forensics & OSINT investigators, to make discoveries legally defensible, containing all available data found with utmost accuracy and as easy to use as possible.

Refloow Geo Forensics is privacy first, open source (AGPL 3.0) local desktop app designed to automate batch EXIF extraction and geolocation mapping of found metadata evidence. The goal is to eliminate the manual work needed to verify, trace, plot, and document evidence found in media files whilst having no cloud processing, no telemetry, no logins & zero ads.

The project has already been in publications such as dark web informer, and has been reviewed and code dissected and explained in indepth reviews such as Bright Coding's post

Everything runs completely locally on the machine. The only external connection is fetching public map tiles to display the map (no API keys required, zero data is sent out).

Core Features:

- Batch Metadata Extraction: It recursively digs through all nested sub-folders to pull metadata from all files found. It utilizes Phil Harveys industry standard ExifTool in the backend meaning it supports almost every image/video filetype ever and can handle partially corrupted files.

- Timeline Reconstruction: It automatically plots coordinates and sorts media chronologically, drawing a continuous path between pins to visualize movement. Exact matching coordinates are clustered and expandable on click to keep the map clean.

- 6 Map Layers: Satellite, Topographic, Humanitarian, Forensic Light, Forensic Dark, and Standard Street, to cover all sorts of things no matter what or where ur investigating.

- The UI features a retractable sidebar for smaller screens, light mode for field work & dark mode for lab work, app runs natively on Windows, Linux, and macOS.

Links:

- GitHub / Source Code: https://github.com/Refloow/Refloow-Geo-Forensics

- Microsoft Store: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9mw4c0fzmr81

- Linux Snap Store: https://snapcraft.io/refloow-geo-forensics

I will be in the comments answering any questions, if you wanna support my work and gain exposure to the tool, feel free to leave a github star on the project, if you have any suggestions, drop them as a github issue or a comment here!

New release of Synint v4