IMPORTANT: While this article focuses on Mexico’s governmental surveillance overreach in forcing the registration of prepaid phone lines, the information herein can be applied no matter where you are, on both sides of the Atlantic. Alright lads and lasses. I’ve been asked to put this together because it can’t be “safely” done from within Mexico.…
Samuel Tunick already faces five years in a federal cage for giving Customs a GrapheneOS duress PIN instead of a device containing his readable life. Georgia State University has now finished the sentencing that the indictment itself only started. Six hours before his first Geosciences lab, an automated email told him he had failed a…
June warned you the anti-freedom dragnet was widening. July showed you the border is where the Constitution is sent to die. August is the month the system’s mask publicly slipped. They are no longer nibbling at your private life. They are actively criminalising the act of keeping one. I have spent more than three decades…
For the entirety of my career there’s always been a substantial gap between what security vendors promise and the actual threat-landscape out in the wild. Lately, however, that gap has dramatically widened in a very defined, dangerous direction. When advanced AI systems are tested with safety controls deliberately reduced or removed and they’re we are…
Everything is NOT what it seems… As Usual. A couple of days back CNBC ran a news piece reporting that three of the world’s top AI companies (OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta) had all admitted to the same problem within days of each other: Their most advanced systems had broken out of controlled security tests, reached…
During my career in disaster prevention/recovery I’ve spent years dealing with real-world threat models, both at the corporate and personal levels. And, based upon my extensive professional experience I cannot emphasize strongly enough that: I treat any VPN with meaningful Israeli ownership, founding, or operational ties as an elevated risk by default. This is not…
I have spent decades protecting individuals, dissidents, and families from the creeping overreach of surveillance systems, both on and offline. And what I see crystalclear is that Palantir Technologies is not just another tech contractor operating internationally. The truth behind Peter Thiel’s AI spy operation is far more sinister than most people realize. Palantir’s technologies…
In my decades as a disaster recovery specialist and digital forensics analyst, I’ve watched money evolve from paper notes and coins to digital ledgers that move at the speed of light. Yet nothing quite matches the quiet revolution unfolding right now on the global payments stage. Over the past few weeks, fresh conversations with industry…
Given my long-term history in digital forensics and cybersecurity, I’m deeply concerned about recent discoveries exposing serious vulnerabilities in Lenovo hardware, particularly in their webcams and other devices commonly used by everyday consumers who rely on these products for communication and work. These flaws, uncovered just a few days ago, in August 2025, could allow…
I want to talk about Pegasus, the Israeli-made spyware, because it’s definitely NOTHING LIKE the graceful winged horse from Greek mythology. What it is, is basically a dictator’s wet dream. Cooked up by NSO Group, this thing is a privacy-destroying, life-endangering monster that’s been used to stalk, silence, and even to set up the murder…
