Although it’s not immediately obvious, the Battle of Agincourt on 25 October 1415, and the changes it forced onto every subsequent battlefield, is 100 percent analogous to the present condition of artificial intelligence and how it relates to your personal existence. The parallel is not decorative. It is structural. A significantly smaller force that had…
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.…
June warned you the anti-freedom dragnet was widening. July showed you the border is where the Constitution is sent to die. August was the month they criminalised the act of keeping a secret. September is the month they tried to give their machine a new name, and a university enforced a sentence no jury had…
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…
The last few weeks have delivered a clearer signal than usual. There’s no longer any doubt that what seem like “isolated policy moves” are forming a consistent pattern: the zone of private life is being narrowed, one legal ruling, technical feature, and “safety” measure at a time. I write this as someone who has spent…
I need to take a moment to talk about Android, its role in the global surveillance society we live in, and the alternatives available to ordinary people like you. In case you don’t know, I spent 15 years troubleshooting for Google while watching it turn from the world’s big, friendly librarian into a global data-harvesting…
This Is A Direct Threat to Encryption Worldwide, Including for Americans On July 11, 2026, the European Parliament advanced the “Chat Control” regulation using an “urgent procedure” pretext while many Members of the European Parliament were already away on summer recess. The proposal, which requires messaging platforms to scan private communications for Child Sexual Abuse…
