DeFi under attack!

Who cares you say?  Well, the shit you do care about is next.  So root for the underdog.

--Uniswap got hit with a Wells Notice
--SEC claims it's an unregistered securities exchange and the Uniswap interface is an unregistered securities broker-dealer
--SEC claims UNI is an investment contract

Uniswap responds this is false.  Direct Quote:
"These assertions assume that value represented in a specific digital file format is a security – and that the SEC can unilaterally extend the definitions of exchanges, brokers and contracts to the point of meaninglessness. A token is a file format, like a PDF. The Protocol is a general purpose computer program that anyone can use and integrate, like TCP/IP. And the hundreds of thousands of users who received UNI tokens for their participation in the protocol’s early days received the token for free, with no contract, and without expectations of profit solely from the efforts of Uniswap Labs."

They are fighting it in court with:
--The lawyer who won the Ripple case
--2nd Different lawyer who won the Grayscale case

The gloves are off!  What do you think will happen?

Source: https://blog.uniswap.org/the-fight-for-defi-continues 

 Microsoft will give Windows PCs a 'photographic memory' by screenshotting everything you do.

Microsoft has unveiled their new mass surveillance tool, by revealing AI baked into Windows and the hardware itself that will take screenshots every few seconds and store and analyze this with AI.  They are nicknaming this “Recall” and marketing it as Windows having photographic memory.  It stores everything you’ve worked on and done to “know about you” or “better serve you”.

Even MSN, which is normally a propaganda outlet for the regime, prominently displays criticism of Elon Musk likening it to the fictional dystopia Black Mirror. [1]  Although Elon Musk tweets he will “turn off” the feature, who knows if he really can.  Because this AI is closed source, and therefore requires blind and complete trust and obedience from the user in Microsoft to not abuse the entire sum of their life’s knowledge.

Even the admitted control settings for this are horrible, with the inability to stop it from capturing all passwords and financial account numbers. [2] And not to mention, this will be a field day for hackers, as Windows machines are typically the easiest and most vulnerable to be targeted with randsomware.  Anonymous hacker “Fya” who said quote “Haha! These worthless clowns handed me the ultimate tool to extract and abuse victims data.”

If ever there was a time to consider switching to Linux, this is it.  It’s not that hard, most software is either compatible or has a replacement.  And Simplified Privacy is happy to help you for just $30/hour resolve any technical issue you might be having.  We can do OS installs, fix software problems, router firmware, or even cloud setups to avoid having to use Big Tech products and remain self-sovereign.  Reach out today and get a free quote.

Sources: https://simplifiedprivacy.com/windows-recall-photographic/ 

 Julian Assange Wins Right to Appeal on 1st Amendment!

The High Court in London ruled Monday that Julian Assange can appeal his extradition to the U.S. on the grounds that he is being denied his First Amendment rights. 

Consortium News:
“This was a watershed moment in this very long battle,” said WikiLeaks Editor-in-Chief Kristinn at an event following the hearing. “Today marked the beginning of the end of the persecution.  The signaling from the courts here in London was clear to the U.S. government: We don’t believe your guarantees, we don’t believe in your assurances.”

https://consortiumnews.com/2024/05/20/assange-wins-right-to-appeal-on-1a-issue/

Reuters:
"The High Court had in March granted him provisional permission to appeal on grounds that he might be discriminated against as a foreign national, but invited the U.S. to submit assurances.  After Monday's hearing, two senior judges said Assange's argument that he might not be able to rely on the U.S. First Amendment right to free speech deserved a full appeal - which is unlikely to be held for months."

https://www.reuters.com/world/wikileaks-julian-assange-faces-us-extradition-judgment-day-2024-05-19/ 

 My domain is blacklisted again.

We’re talking about error messages in both browsers and anti-virus software to purposely prevent people from visiting my site, and this time they went for RebelNet.me

But today, I change it up, and respond with uploading my past content to Arweave, for an archive.
Arweave is cloud storage directly on the blockchain, it’s like Bitcoin Ordinals, but it scales.
It’s permanent, you can’t undo it.  That’s good because its censorship resistant, but potentially bad if its evidence used against me.  (for example: Samurai wallet’s tweets)

I was on the fence about uploading controversial evasion techniques that I can never undo before, but now again being on the DNS blacklist, I have decided I will never let the knowledge die.

They can scar my name.
They can hunt me down and murder me.
They can pry my encryption keys from my cold dead hands.
But my words will live on.  Now burned directly on the blockchain, and through your memory.

I love you.  And no adversity will ever talk me out of it.

Fire off!

DeGoogled Alternatives:
gTyRNgFo8hUuGRgUsro1e4D1PcEakjBsqkTXmwB8soc

Crypto-Anarchy:
nGsvBWBuiOXaPM6FGtYN-7eRAWjk3WtTqwmzsVuc9lQ

Privacy Checklist:
zT6x-hUmd4WKJ2f9UPXpw2auWvvCLEmzM0KvHiHEfD0

Linux distros:
jZuvwhkTfEMFhvOPhhPUelLUBCvo4Hube0-KNHvfyZ0

And a dozen more.  For the most important part, the Wallet that has it all:
zwYLgYCdECfO4S62oBMJXhvkVFL—24qJCa5E_-BnGM

You can view the wallet’s posts through a gateway or even a block explorer.  For example:
https://pvcsk5frxfyostm75nhyjneotxwpuldjy5ptdip24ut7w6lfgwha.arweave.net/fUUldLG5cOlNn-tPhLSOnez6LGnHXzGh-uUn-3llNY4/profile/zwYLgYCdECfO4S62oBMJXhvkVFL--24qJCa5E_-BnGM 

 Deleted Nudes Permanently Leak on Apple?!

New iOS update is resurfacing deleted files that users thought were gone.

In some cases, NUDE photos, EVEN AFTER the user WIPED it and SOLD the device.

According to the Verge, quote:
“Apple appears to have a bug that’s dredging up data that iPhone owners thought was gone. Some iPhone owners are reporting that, after updating their phones to iOS 17.5, their deleted photos — some quite old — are popping up again, according to a Reddit thread that MacRumors spotted. iOS beta testers had the same complaints about the bug last week.”

This is quite possible since it’s syncing with the Apple cloud, and may not be rewritten with 1s and 0s correctly.  Data when it’s deleted is just removing the pointer to that data, and it’s not fully deleted in such a way that it can’t be recovered until overwritten.  This new version of iOS apparently is bringing to light a serious issue with Apple’s data policies, especially since most users do sync with the cloud.

Some sources are now reporting nude photos coming back even after wiping the device.  Quote The Verge, “a person claimed in a later post that “around 300” of their old pictures, some of which were “revealing,” appeared on an iPad they’d wiped per Apple’s guidelines and sold to a friend.”  

So if you haven’t already, consider switching to Linux and DeGoogled phone.  This way you don’t have to worry about the permanent data leak issue, that comes from sync with a cloud you don’t control the data wiping policies of.

Source:
https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/15/24157284/apple-iphone-ios-17-5-update-deleted-photos-voicemails 

 4 Open Source Software/Apps for your Liberty and Pleasure!

MPV
Super high quality video player.  Open MPV and VLC side by side on something like Game of Thrones and you'll immediately see the graphics are just on another level.  In fact, when I drank Moonshine, an elf told me that the ONLY way Stevie Wonder could see movies was MPV.

Zathura
Fastest PDF reader in the wild west.  If you lined up every PDF reader and opened them side by side, Zathura will outgun every other one in record time.  In fact, it pops up with such speed, even after I play drinking games with Alzheimer's medications, I still wonder if it was already open.

OpenKeyChain
Your friends say they'll check the encrypted messenger, but they never do!  You have to write them on Facebook or WhatsApp to remind them to check Signal or Session.  But what if you just sent something directly encrypted on the platform that they check?  Meet OpenKeyChain, the easiest and fastest PGP toggle app.  In fact, my blind Amish grandmother easily navigated these basic buttons and is now evading the NSA.

AntennaPod
If you're not already using this podcast app, you're missing out.  Corrupt Big Tech platforms want to destroy freedom through tyrannical censorship.  Ditch them and instead use reliable RSS feeds, where AntennaPod lets you directly pull your favorite shows.  Did you know that Simplified Privacy's videos show up in RSS?  Add this URL:
https://video.simplifiedprivacy.com/feed 

 Get a free month of VoIP w/ JMP Chat?

Simplified Privacy now has a deal with VoIP provider JMP Chat.  If you get a VPS from us with XMPP, email, and cryptpad docs, we’ll throw in a free month of JMP Chat VoIP to hook into your XMPP account.

JMP Chat works by converting SMS texts and regular phone calls to open source XMPP.  So it hides your location and keeps your name off the billing by using crypto.

So our new combo package is:
a) Email Setup
b) Cryptpad Setup (replace Google docs)
c) XMPP Setup
d) Free JMP Chat for 1 month to plug into your XMPP
e) 1 year domain name registration
f) 1st month of the VPS on us. ($8/month after.)
g) 1 year tech support from us.
h) 1-2 hour consultation to teach you how to use it.

All for just $99.  Sweet

Perfect for your business or family.  Get started right in the DMs of Nostr or your favorite encrypted messenger with nothing asked but what domain name you want.

Is it that easy to be self-sovereign?  Yeah, it’s Simplified Privacy 

 HardenedSteel shut down, and it appears Reto has solidified their position as the sole Haveno network.

This means potentially one person or a tiny group is controlling the entire peer to peer Monero market.

Anyone can observe with publicly available information, that the way this works is that the seeder has control over who can be an arbitrator.  This is because you use their client, hooked to their seed server, to connect to other nodes.

Reto might be good, or bad.  We don’t know yet.

The bigger question is not who is in charge, but how good the behavior of the buyers will be.  Because Reto has in-person cash trades, where the seller locks up XMR.  That means that the buyer can pull a gun on seller and demand they approve the trade on their phone.  All you need is one incident, and this shit can hit the fan quick. 

 Powerlord war going on with Monero, that is slowing the entire Tor network.

Here’s my understanding:

--LocalMonero closed

--Haveno was supposed to be a more decentralized version, that’s a peer-to-peer marketplace

--Multiple Haveno networks that DON’T cross-communicate are now competing for traffic, over who will be the dominate controlling market in what was supposed to be a decentralized thing.

--There’s so much traffic on Tor now over this, that the entire Tor network is lagged out 

 There are currently multiple Haveno networks

Guest Post by my friend, @mister_monster
Quote:

At least 2 separate Haveno networks have launched as of today. One is called Reto and the other is called HardenedSteel. Those are the only ones I’m aware of right now, and things are happening pretty fast.

The haveno software was designed with the assumption that only a single network would be operated. People could fork it and run their own networks, but they wouldn’t interact directly at all. But it looks to me as of this moment this is not how it is going to play out.

The client has the network info hard coded. So to use more than one, you need two copies of the client. This means that for most people they have to pick one. And, users might not understand this, just google “haveno” and pull the first git repo they see. This has significant, fast moving and quickly ossifying network effects with big repercussions.

We need to be very vigilant right now, as we are about to witness the very swift rise of a major power broker in our community. We don’t want to start using a Haveno network run by scammers or authoritarians. Each network is it’s arbitrators, and soon, the merchants on each one.

I think it’s probably a good idea to figure out a way to connect to multiple networks, and to show listings with details about which network/arbitrator set a user is trusting when taking up a listing.

I’m cautiously optimistic, Monero has gotten rid of powerful people without a hitch before. But it is a bigger community now and that will be much harder to do. If we are vigilant during this time and we get through this successfully I think we become unbeatable, but the road directly ahead of us is treacherous, the next few days are going to move very fast.

Source:
https://monero.town/post/3138955

Mister_Monster's Nostr:
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 Internet structure is lame:

a) Domain names are the government's opinion of your identity

b) SSL Encryption is not even based on these flawed domains, even worse than that, it's based on locations, so the cloud host owns everything

c) Even worse than that, not just the cloud host owns it, but on top of that Cloudflare sees everything.  You submit your password, Cloudflare's CDN sees it.  They own every account you thought you owned.

d) Even worse than that, Websites won't even let you JUST have a password.  You need to email to verify, which is completely insecure nonsense that is now having a different 2nd cloud company own your account on the first one's servers.

e) Web browsers are running whatever code they want.  You're a bitch that just has to accept their code.

f) Web browsers are dominated by Google & Mozilla, both left-leaning anti-privacy companies.

I reject this.
Instead, I promote the idea of Agnostic Encryption as Identity.  And what this means is:

1) Using Encryption as Identity with open source clients.

2) Empower the end user with choices among both clients and protocols.

3) End users have all the power.  Servers are an irrelevant commodity

4) Avoiding tying identities to particular servers

5) Communication between keypair systems to reduce the number of clients or extensions the person has to download.  We assume disagreement, if you curse me out then you prove my point.

6) Cross-communication to increase the access and availability of content, and the network effect of all encryption as identity. 

 This lawmaker doesn’t even make sense, if someone is protesting cruel conditions, how does it make your cause more just to put them in the very conditions they protest?  You’re just proving them right, that you are insane and inhumane.
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 Got a friend new to Nostr?

Send em this.  One of our readers made original cartoon art to show how it works.  I wish I had seen this when I first started, it makes it so simple.  Even the Tor Onions:

https://rebelnet.me/news/49b239288887089cfc18 

 Monero Wallet built into Signal

This uses the Molly client fork.  Molly interacts with Signal’s official AWS servers, but is a more free version code wise, and has better local security.  Now someone has added an XMR wallet to this.

https://github.com/mollyim/monero-wallet-sdk 

 Cryptpad vs NextCloud: the anti-Google.

Google docs is so toxic, because it fingerprints your writing style and keyboard mannerisms, to permanently and maliciously identify other new accounts as you.  [1]  They will claim this is to show you “relevant ads”, but we’ve documented numerous times their contracts with governments to mold society’s opinions and jail users. [2][3]

In order to make sure they can maliciously identify you for profit, Google docs will not display correctly, unless you disable aggressive fingerprint blocking techniques.  For example Brave browser on “Strict Fingerprinting” will cause Google docs to be unreadable.

But you can ditch the tyrannical dystopia with Cryptpad or NextCloud.  BOTH of these are great for team collaborations, and we can add email and chat to both of these.  This is open source software that’s run on a VPS (virtual private server), aka your own tiny cloud.  Let’s compare the pros and cons:

Pros of Cryptpad:
--end-to-end-encryption on shared documents
--Less resource intensive, you can have a smaller VPS and save money

Cons of Cryptpad:
--Focus is on docs, it can do other stuff, but it’s not really focused on it
--It has to be in a web browser, no apps to download
--Hypothetically the server admin could spoof the whole website to phish incoming decryption passwords, but this true for ALL web browser services.

Pros of NextCloud:
--Direct integration with to-do lists, calendars, email, and Video chat integrations make it great for business teams.  (Our Cryptpad setups for have email and chat too, its just a different panel)
--Great for documents and a variety of other files
--open source mobile apps

Cons of NextCloud:
--No end-to-end encryption.  Much less secure than Cryptpad
--Zero protection from the cloud host
--Takes more resources and therefore costs more to run
--Requires optimization for speed

In general, we recommend Cryptpad for smaller businesses or individuals, and NextCloud for larger teams.  Simplified Privacy is proud to offer setups for either, jammed packed with email and chat on your own VPS.  You pick the domain name, you pick what kind of chat (XMPP, SimpleX, ect).  And you get handed over ALL credentials (root access), which you can change afterwards.   See some pictures: https://simplifiedprivacy.com/email-cloud-combo/ 

 If morality is subjective, what is the purpose?
As that means I can commit crimes, and say that to me, it subjectively feels right.

If we were to have a vote, mob rule might swing to move law in a certain direction.
Be that bomb Palestine.
Be that Hitler’s camps.
Be that starve Yemen.
Whatever, 100 examples...

The point is the foundation of individual liberty is to have rights regardless of the majority’s vote.
The only way to maintain these freedoms against the majority is with an objective standard.

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 The Session group has grown bigger, it's now the most active of all our rooms.

If you ask tech/privacy questions here, you'll get interesting discussion.  You go to “Join Community” and add this URL:

https://session.simplifiedprivacy.is/simplified?public_key=ed33150048005a9237708314785af91f5dfe0d9eafd8a66df6e9977cc9619431 

 Farcaster's Warpcast app is total bullshit.

--Forced payments via Google play store. No Degoogled phones.
What is the purpose of Ethereum if it’s forced Google play.

--Bans Tor.  Since when is something decentralized if a single provider has the power to ban specific IP addresses?

--Forced link to email.  The whole point of Ethereum is we don’t want government domains

--I don’t mind paying nodes or network fees, but not a central gatekeeper on Big Tech. 

 The situation with Protonmail handing over data in Spain is nothing new.  But,

When I tell people they should self-host email on a VPS, they often respond with “email is not private.”  And that’s true, and that’s why you should self-host it, BECAUSE it’s not private and people force you to use it anyway.

So because you’re going to leak data, it should be to someone just renting you a computer, and not to someone literally administering your account and running the software you’re using.  That makes it so easy to monitor it.

And if you don’t want to go through the trouble, we have combo packages to include Email, Chat (XMPP or SimpleX), and Cryptpad, all on one tiny VPS!  Cryptpad is an end-to-end secure replacement for Google docs.  We just set it up and then hand over the passwords/keys to you.  So we’re just tech support, and not the cloud host.

Is email flawed?  Yes.  But you can get as self-sovereign as you can be, and even more so with your documents and chats.  

 LocalMonero / AgoraDesk Shutting Down!

https://rebelnet.me/news/45432e4f51bbad68ee4a
 

 New Novel attack allows your ISP to see your VPN traffic!

Remember all the people calling me a tinfoil hat wacko for insisting on open source routers?
There is a new critical VPN vulnerability from Leviathan Security group, which they call “TunnelVision”.  It allows the ISP or local router to see the VPN traffic by abusing the DHCP client and option 121

Here’s the basics:
--It uses the local area network, so we’re talking about a hostile router
--Android is safe by default and unaffected.
--Linux may be safe if used correctly.
--Microsoft Windows and Apple are highly vulnerable.
--While Leviathan created it, they think it’s been used in the wild since maybe even 2002
--Abuses the DHCP server to incorrectly route packets
--Random devices can pretend to be the router with DHCP attacks

How it works:
DHCP is when a home router assigns IP addresses to devices in your local area network.  There is “ option 121” which allows that router (DHCP server) to route the VPN user’s system in a way that is more specific than those used by most VPNs.  TunnelVision abuses option 121 to purposefully route the system through their fake interface.

Why Android is immune:
Android ignores option 121

How Linux users can protect themselves, quote from Leviathan:

“Using network namespaces on Linux can completely fix this behavior. However, in our experience, it is less commonly implemented.  WireGuard’s documentation shows how it’s possible to use a namespace for all applications with traffic that should be using a VPN before sending it to another namespace that contains a physical interface. However, this appears to be Linux-specific functionality and it’s not clear if there is a solution for Windows, MacOS, or other operating systems with the same amount of robustness.”  Source: https://www.leviathansecurity.com/blog/tunnelvision

And of course, Linux PLUS an open source router is the real protection.  Check out the router section of our site,
https://simplifiedprivacy.com/category/routers/ 

 Knights of Nostr!
@🦄Onigirl🐹🐉 wrote a cute piece about Gossip,  No way you can see this without smiling.
If your client doesn’t support it, she also put it on RebelNet:
https://rebelnet.me/news/3efb37ea92a3e1988e7a

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 George Soros openly admits he’s funding BOTH Joe Biden, AND the protests on college campuses AGAINST Joe Biden’s Israel policy.

Poll: Why?

a) Create a need to censor speech, with the “Antisemitism bill”
b) Just create chaos in general, to crackdown and control
c) Push Joe Biden’s buttons to get something
d) He actually cares about Palestine
e) [insert your own reason] 

 You know the sad thing is that Ron Paul is considered “edge” or fringe by the majority of people, when he’s saying such obvious and logical things.
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 RebelNet Video Tutorials grouped by type.

Nostr
Android
Browser: IceRaven (Firefox based)
Extension: Nos2x-fox
No Google Store. No Pop-ups.
https://rebelnet.me/news/0xc5c7e9706d65f10d29

Nostr
Android
Browser: Kiwi Browser (Chromium-based)
Extension: Flamingo
https://rebelnet.me/news/0x1f5746859145503128

Nostr
Desktop
Browser: Any
Extensions: Nos2x, Flamingo
https://rebelnet.me/news/0x7480de270c36863343

Ethereum
Mobile & desktop
Browser: Any
Extension: MetaMask
https://rebelnet.me/news/0x78e2b8d7a367de3534

You can also sign-in as a guest without anything and talk shit.
We will be supporting more clients and keys as we build! 

 Not your keys, not your coins.
Not your keys, not your words.

Some will cling to Big Tech social media with the flawed logic of “Oh well Nostr or encrypted messengers sound nice, but I have to get reach.  I have to be where the people are.”

But just creating an account by itself doesn’t get you reach on Youtube, Twitter, Discord, or Telegram.  You need fans to even show up in search, or have your stuff retweeted.  So the more heavily invested you are in the corrupt censorship platform, the more benefit you’d get.  This permanently compromises your messages and voice.

It’s even worse than that.  By directing your fans into a negative shadow ban snowball, you actually reduce being heard, from the people who would normally spread your content if they only knew you had new stuff.

In this short hard-hitting video, our team stands the line, refusing to compromise.
https://rebelnet.me/news/0x09178034d5c4056e46

Shout-out @mister_monster for his inspirational ideas in making this. 

 This is pretty intense.  It ends free speech for criticizing foreign policy.  And shows the importance of encryption as identity for our society to function.

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