Yes if it’s kept private, then its totally fine.

Yes complex zkProofs can also be used, that our team is ALSO NOT doing due to cost.

I’m sorry to hear you’re thinking of quitting, maybe your client can be integrated with our rebelnet.me setup?  I’m not concerned with the bounty, more so with spreading adoption 

 Yeah but Monero’s ring signatures select random transactions to use as decoys.  If transactions (even if intended to be public) are ruled out as the potential sender, it hurts Monero’s privacy at a rate directly proportional to how popular the nostr zap is.  Think about it, if 90% of transactions are nostr zaps, then the 10% of “private” transactions then it's badly hurt. 

 Yeah so the node sees it.  Which is 1 in 16 

 Monero zaps live on RebelNet!

Here’s how it works:
https://rebelnet.me/news/0xe037eaa0a7d252c9a9

DM me your XMR address and npub. 

 Not only do covid masks not stop the spread of covid,

But they actually increase deaths

Because if you try to force me to wear it, I’m going to kill you 

 RebelNet going down for development changes:
Figure 1-2 days downtime
The main site should be unaffected, just a heads-up. 

 Shocking Instagram Social Engineering revealed!

The answer to “Why Privacy” or "Why Nostr" is now that they will manipulate your entire worldview.

We all know that Meta and other Big Tech social media algorithms will “customize” the feed for each individual account, which is a fancy slang phrase for customized propaganda. But what you may have been unaware is that NOT ONLY are the posts itself altered, but also the COMMENTS. If EVER there was a reason to pitch your skeptical friends on Nostr…

New evidence of social engineering in the comments section has come forth (see below) and this has shocking ramifications for the ability of governments and Big Tech to manipulate and distort our entire worldview of how popular certain concepts are. Forever forcing certain subjects to be considered “extreme conspiracy theories” even if the overwhelming majority of the popular may think an idea is true.

This Instagram influencer (reposted to twitter) describes how a video on a couple fighting produces different results for the comments section depending on if it’s her or her boyfriend’s phone. The comments on HER phone show the majority of replies favoring the woman, while as her BOYFRIEND’s the man. With both of them being unable to EVEN FIND the comments that the other sees.

Must Watch:

Nitter Frontend:
https://xcancel.com/xxclusionary/status/1794872641154871803

Or:
https://x.com/xxclusionary/status/1794872641154871803 

 You can disagree with my choices, but don't let that be the reason you stay trapped.

Twitter  -> Nostr
Discord  -> Matrix
Telegram -> Session
WhatsApp -> Signal/SimpleX
Gmail -> Self-host
Reddit -> RebelNet.me
Google docs -> Cryptpad
Dropbox -> NextCloud
SMS -> VoIP (if you have to)
Robinhood -> Hugo's Way
Netflix -> LibreY Torrents
DocuSign -> Detached PGP on Arweave
Github -> protocol.land
WordPress -> Hugo
Coinbase -> Basic Swap DEX
SIM cards -> GLinet Travel routers
LinkedIn -> Host a website with your stuff dude

What would you add? 

 Donald Trump is speaking at the Libertarian National Convention Now

This is the first time one of official candidates speaks at LP

This Rumble link is live:
https://rumble.com/v4v2xa9-live-president-trump-addresses-libertarian-national-convention-in-d.c.-5252.html 

 How Google’s AI is harmful:

Google originally got popular by figuring out which pages get the most traffic for keywords, through how many links they have from other high traffic sites.  In other words, the engine’s ranking was designed to reflect the choices and popularity of the overall market.

Now the goal is for AI to sift through the information and tell you its opinion.  In other words, Google isn’t just “saving you time” with AI summaries.  They are seizing power over what defines truth.  Then once a certain view is promoted through enough mainstream channels, it BECOMES the popular view, with limited external forces, checks, or balances.

And what does Big Tech consider to be true?  Well, even Google’s CEO has openly said that conservatives are “low information” voters, and he openly said he wants to use AI to suppress these voices. [1]  And even worse than that, they unveiled their new AI to sift through your photos on their cloud.  As DigitalTrends reports:

<quote>
“With the new “Ask Photos” feature, you can soon search your photo library using a conversational approach rather than just keywords. For example, Google demonstrated that you can ask Google Photos for your license plate number or for photos of your child swimming over time by simply asking questions such as “What’s my license plate again?” or “When did my daughter learn to swim?” [2]
<end quote>

Now with AI showing you photos on command, this for-profit advertising company will have the ability to shape your views on your own life experiences after knowing everything about you.  “Want to sell women’s make-up or weight loss?  We’ll show the ugliest pictures of potential customers to themselves right before an ad for your cream!”

By the way, on an unrelated note, 4 new security vendors have flagged the RebelNet domain as malicious, to purposefully prevent traffic.  So if you share this, it might be my only shot to make a difference.

Sources: https://simplifiedprivacy.com/google-ai/ 

 The open source “privacy” community is divided into 2 main camps:  

Socialist Fediverse vs Libertarian CypherPunks

Socialist Fediverse
Brainwashed Mastodon and Lemmy users hate everything to do with capitalism.  As part of their irrational dislike for Capitalism (which is really a call for violent theft), these moronic socialists favor Linux and open source software because of the lack of a business model.  They fail to realize that banning anyone on the Fediverse even attempting any kind of business, is a quick way to degrade open source development.

Socialist Fedis are not logical.  They claim they want privacy, but they also want to empower the government with more power.  These are opposites.  If everyone has complete privacy, how can the government enforce all of this power?  The classic example is collecting more taxes vs Monero.

They claim to be decentralized, but all work together to ban, block, and de-federate many ideas.  So “open source” Fedis mouth off all day about privacy, but really they are only concerned with controlling the conversation to move towards their totalitarian seizure of power. 

Further, Socialist Fedis are arbitrary.  They hate Google, but love Mozilla, even though Mozilla’s biggest profit literally comes from Google paying them to put spyware in their browser by default.  Fedis have an insane obsession with Brave browser’s CEO for some minor comment about gays, but they could care less about the blood of minorities being spilled on the cold concrete, from Barrack Obama funding Nazis, to do a coup in Ukraine.  Apparently, they only care if you describe the US empire’s murdered victims with the correct gender pronouns.

Crypto Libertarian CypherPunks

These are the ones who care about privacy.  And I am a part of this group.  However, this group is difficult to lead.  By their very nature, these people dislike authority, so they will not obey or respect anything.  This leads to a breakdown in a consensus to move to alternative systems, such as encryption as identity, private messengers, and which cryptocurrencies to use.

This is why I’m so passionate about DegenRocket & the RebelNet.  By allowing any keypairs to interact, it opens the door to this community to grow, while giving people the freedom to pick how they want to do it. 

 U.S. House votes 279-136 to approve a bill that labels crypto a commodity under CFTC (and therefore primarily out of SEC jurisdiction).  But it seems like this bill will die in the Senate.
 

 New police technology able to detect phones, pet trackers, and library books inside a moving car

I'm not going to rewrite this my own words.  Hear it from Globe Echo quoted, because sometimes the truth is scarier in a more neutral tone:

Quote:
"American police are testing a new technology developed by Leonardo, an Italian surveillance and defense company, that can scan moving vehicles for signals emitted by devices such as phones, smartwatches, pet chips, library books, and more. The technology, called Elsag EOC Plus, can identify specific models of devices and create a unique “fingerprint” linked to a car’s license plate number. This data can be used to track individuals as they move through areas with license plate scanners, raising concerns about potential privacy violations.

According to Leonardo, the new technology can be useful not only for police departments on public roads but also in off-road areas such as rail stations and shopping centers. The company claims to have over 4,000 customers for its Elsag license plate readers in the U.S. and is actively trying to sell the new product worldwide. However, some experts, such as Matthew Guariglia from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, question the necessity and potential misuse of the technology, especially in terms of tracking and seizing electronic devices from individuals without proper authorization."

Full article: https://globeecho.com/new-police-technology-able-to-detect-phones-pet-trackers-and-library-books-inside-a-moving-car/ 

 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/ 

 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.  

 Privacy Checklist

Step 1. Learn Linux
It’s easier than you think.   You don’t need the command line, and the software compatibility isn’t as big a deal as it used to be, because a lot is in a web browser now.  Over the last 10 years, Linux has improved dramatically, while as Microsoft Windows has gotten worse due to their increased surveillance wasting more and more resources.

Step 2. Get a DeGoogled Android
It’s as easy to use as a regular Android!  You can have all the same apps (although you should ditch some of them).  You don’t need the newest and most expensive model, Pixel 6a or 7a are just fine.  We sell them cheap, or do it on your own.

Step 3. Slowly learn about open source alternatives.
There is a lot of alternative software out there, and our site covers most of them.  Kdenlive is just as good as Adobe Premier for 90% of stuff.  GIMP is just as good as photoshop for most people.  Try to replace one app a week or month, you’ll get there.  Patience.

Step 4. Get a VoIP line.
Stop using the number on the real SIM card of your phone, otherwise the phone company sees what you’re doing.  If you use VoIP with a VPN, then the phone company sees just a VPN tunnel.  And the VoIP company just sees a VPN exit.  The data is still unencrypted, but this is a huge separation of knowledge.

Step 5. Transition to Crypto.
Bitrefill, coincards, cake wallet, and many more vendors have a huge variety of stuff.  This depends on your country and needs.  But no country has no options.  Don’t let pessimism keep you trapped in fiat.

Step 6. Consider self-hosted email.
If you’re not going to just use a bunch of burners, and you actually have real content going through email, then self-host on a VPS is the best way.  It’s true that the VPS provider can still access it, but if you need business email, then this is your best choice.  We offer to do the setup for you, or you can read guides on your own.

Step 7. Start on-boarding your friends and family
It takes two to tango.  It helps to have the other side of your conversation secure as well.  Our site has guides on how to approach them, but the answer usually lies in increasing your value proposition and friendship.  And never in cursing them out.  Target your pitch on what they know and care about.

Step 8. Type your name in search engines.
See what comes up.  Are these accounts you can clean up, change, or delete?

Step 9. Make the plunge: Delete Facebook.
It’s a tough one.  And most won’t do it.  But I did, and I kept all the people I actually talked to in the real world in my life via different tools.  Good time to pitch Nostr.

Conclusion:
When you first see this list, it will be overwhelming with what you ought to do.  But I’m here today to tell you that I was once just like you, and I felt powerless with all this technical jargon I had to overcome.  But remember, to some people Nostr or Bitcoin is complex.  So it’s all what you’re used to.  If you go through this list slowly over the course of a few months, I promise you that one day you’ll look back, and be surprised that you ever let it intimidate you.

Now I need you to return the favor, and spread the knowledge you just learned.  For the more people that walk this trail, the easiest the path becomes.