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Privacy, and our basic freedoms, are under attack from all sides.
Incredibly, the so-called 'liberal democracies' are now leading these attacks; arresting their own citizens for posting online, rolling out facial recognition cameras, and moving to ban VPNs.
"What can men do against such reckless hate?" And are we losing this battle?
Absolutely not. There's still time to fight back, and we have much in our arsenal. We at @bitcoinpolicyuk have put together a 'Privacy Toolkit', that should let anyone, whatever their skill level, take a few small steps towards improving their privacy and their freedom, and making themselves just a little bit harder for governments to track and to oppress.
This isn't comprehensive, and we'll continue to update it as time goes by. We hope it's useful to everyone and serves as a handy guide to help us all push back against government overreach, wherever we find it.
Link in the thread and comments welcome! 👇
🚨NEW: Britain has developed a reputation as perhaps the most censorious 'liberal' democracy.
How did we get here — and what can we do about it?
✍️: @charliecolecc investigates.
📖: pimlicojournal.co.uk/p/resto…
Freddie New retweeted
The UK has the most aggressive Internet censorship regime in the West.
The regulator tasked with enforcing it, and the organizations who pushed for it, are now saying it doesn’t work.
Why should Parliament think their new set of recommendations are any less wrong?
You may have seen that the UK government’s debt has now surpassed three trillion pounds for the first time, with September’s interest bill on that debt hitting a staggering £10.9 billion.
At this rate, our national spending just on debt interest will remain the third biggest line item in the state’s spending (behind only welfare and the NHS), tens of billions more than we spend on educating our children, and roughly DOUBLE our defence spending. This is an impossible situation and cannot continue
We’re essentially looking for two solutions to this problem, one macro and one personal.
The former is more easily dealt with. We all, collectively – politicians, central bankers, and everyone else, need responsibly to concede that there is absolutely no way we can pay down a three trillion pound principal, and that we’re running out of the ability to pay a £111 billion annual interest bill without something breaking.
The only way to fix this is via colossal devaluation of the pound via a period of short and intense monetary inflation, wiping out the real value of the debt that we owe, but at the expense of the currency.
It’s the last part of that solution where it becomes personal. What do you as an individual do, looking ahead at this future, and realising what the government and the central bank are going to have to do, sooner or later?
This is far from financial advice, but I would suggest you look at what people have always done in this kind of scenario. In Weimar Germany, citizens bought gold, paintings, furniture and jewellery. In Argentina, some bought bricks. In Zimbabwe, many bought gold or simply USD. TLDR: if you have savings, get them out of the currency that is about to implode.
There are other options, of course. I strongly suggest you read about them, and protect yourself and your family before the inevitable happens.
Very bleak, but I fully agree 👇
I stopped the analysis I was doing in the end. Every thread you pull at takes you somewhere extremely depressing. And you quickly realise you’re operating in your own bubble because a) people don’t really care, and b) we simply don’t have the politicians we need to even comprehend the scale of the problems, let alone come up with sensible solutions.
And what’s worse, we don’t even have the prospect of better politicians to vote for, let alone get into government.
There’s only so many ways you can say “This country is fucked” before people lose interest and tune into Love Island instead.
This is all going to end in disaster. Maybe then people will wake from their slumber. Sadly, it’ll be too late to do anything about it and we’ll just have to deal with the consequences.
Freddie New retweeted
Pot hole Britain reminds me of something.
Labour accused of raiding roads budget to pay for ballooning benefits bill as two dozen highways projects aimed at cutting traffic, boosting the economy and reducing accidents are axed trib.al/XkBrYSt
Might want to just stay offline for the next day or so. And enjoy that physical media you've been stockpiling instead.
This is the most serious 48 hours in cybersecurity history.
"Black October" they're calling it
It seems every *hour* there's a new incident, that in a typical year, would be one of the biggest incidents of the *entire year*
SUMMARY OF THE LAST 48 HOURS:
YEAR-LEVEL INCIDENTS (In a typical year, these would be among the biggest incidents of the year):
1. PHP2Shell: a hole in the software behind ~70% of websites. Governments took sites offline.
2. eMudhra: the master keys that prove websites are real were cracked. One was the number 4.
3. California: data on every public school student since 2023 stolen, including disability status
4. Railway: hackers stole customers' secret keys from a hosting platform used by millions of developers
5. Zeabur: 321,810 accounts breached. The company is shutting down.
6. LiteLLM: an AI tool downloaded 3.4 million times a day was poisoned with a password stealer
7. GitLab: a 10-out-of-10 severity hole in every version since 2014
8. Cairn: criminals used an AI hacking tool to break into 100+ companies
9. Ahold Delhaize: hackers knocked the owner of Food Lion and Stop & Shop offline
10. Onamae: malware planted on up to 26,739 customer servers in Japan
MONTH-LEVEL INCIDENTS (In a typical month, these would be among the biggest incidents):
11. Signal: a bug could leave your mic and camera on after you hang up
12. NGINX: 3 critical holes in software running ~1/3 of websites
13. HTTP/3: a single connection can crash 7 of the 10 web server types tested
14. Plex: hackers breaking into home media servers
15. SafePay ransomware: FBI warns it has hit 600+ critical infrastructure organizations
16. Palo Alto: ransomware gangs breaking in through company firewalls
17. Bullhorn: platform used by 10,000+ companies knocked offline
18. Medi-Cal: 970,000 patients' data stolen
19. WordPress: hackers stole a plugin maker's keys and used them to plant backdoors on websites
20. AOMEI: backup software's update server handed out a backdoor
21. Meta Muse: Meta's AI agent exposed users' personal and business secrets
22. Tor: 333 relays hijacked to steal logins
23. TiDB Cloud: database company's cloud breached
Also serious:
24. State Bank of India: India's biggest bank confirms a data breach
25. OVHcloud: hackers slipped a password stealer into a cloud company's official tool
26. Siemens: a software hole being used to spread malware
27. North Korea: state hackers launch a new attack campaign on South Korea
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Effective Immediately, all organizations using PHP for their systems are advised to be prepared for an update addressing two critical vulnerabilities. PHP is widely used for web applications. These vulnerabilities often provide a direct path to the server's file system or database. If an immediate update is not feasible, it is recommend that organizations take the system offline until it can be fully mitigated. NSA will follow up shortly with more specific guidance.
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Two critical vulnerabilities have been identified in PHP, a widely used programming language that powers websites and web applications. These vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619) could allow malicious cyber actors to remotely execute code in PHP core, potentially compromising sensitive data and networks.
The FBI urges organizations to take the following steps now:
➡️ If an immediate update is not feasible it is recommended that organizations take the system offline until it can be fully mitigated.
➡️ Immediately update affected PHP installations following the guidance on php.net. Inventory where PHP runs in your environment, prioritizing internet-facing systems and vendor products that bundle PHP.
➡️ Monitor web servers for suspicious activity, including PHP processes unexpectedly launching command shells or downloading files. Ensure appropriate process-monitoring capabilities are in place to help identify potential exploitation.
➡️ If you find signs of compromise, isolate affected systems, preserve your web server and PHP logs, and report it to your local FBI field office or ic3.gov. Those reports help us identify the actors involved and warn other organizations before they become victims.
For the latest information, follow PHP’s announcement on php.net, CERT-EU Security Advisory 2026-018, and CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.
ALT Critical vulnerability alert for PHP Core with CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, CVSS score 9.2, urging immediate patch and threat hunting.
I suppose this is what it looks like when the Coldcard entropy issue breaks through into normie-land.
Yay, I guess?
The eMudhra compromise is an absolute joke. This isn't a standard data leak it's pure, unadulterated structural incompetence.
8 globally trusted intermediate CA keys were generated with basically zero cryptographic entropy. 😠 A standard NIST P-384 private key needs 384 bits of entropy so it's mathematically impossible to crack.
Yet, the blokes at @eMudhra generated production keys with 3 to 8 bits. The actual private key values were literal single digits like 4, 56, and 115. This is playground-level stuff. Infuriatingly amateur.
How does a private company with zero fundamental grasp of public key infrastructure even get global root trust? Indian regulatory and auditing bodies make us look like complete idiots. They treat cybersecurity like a casual compliance checkbox instead of critical national infrastructure.
This failure leaves the entire internet with a massive cleanup job. Browsers blocked these keys fast, but millions of unmaintained Linux distros, embedded IoT tech, Docker containers, and backend apps are completely exposed out there.
If you're an everyday user (not a developer), you still need to fix this on your personal devices right now:
Update everything: Force-update your web browsers (Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari) and your operating systems across your laptop, Mac, and mobile phone. Don't wait for auto-updates manually trigger them in your settings.
Test your device: Go to emudhra.we-have-a-problem.co…
Verify the result: If your browser blocks the site and says "Did not connect" (or throws a certificate error), you are safe. If the website opens normally, you are still vulnerable.
If you're running Linux, Python, Go, or Node infrastructure:
Stop what you're doing. Manually update your ca-certificates bundles, pins, or drop a system-level blocklist immediately to prevent traffic interception.
The casual negligence of these agencies shouldn't be your vulnerability.
Truth.
For any man who was bullied, belittled, abused or neglected as a child, there's only one question you need to ask yourself.
"Have I become the kind of man who would have protected me when I was a boy?"
If you can answer 'yes', then you really have no more to do.
Pushing back against misguided and unjust laws and proposals is NOT time wasted.
Well done to everyone who responded to this.
But remember, the price of liberty is eternal vigilance.
On to the next....
BREAKING | Treasury backs down on crypto rules after ‘thousands’ of comments techcentral.co.za/treasury-c…
Freddie New retweeted
This comes to show that even in South Africa, the man on the street still sometimes has influence.
Well done to everyone who made themselves heard about this insane and draconian proposal.
Hat tip to @PRDG_ZA for doing excellent work on this topic.
We live to fight them another day.
BREAKING | Treasury backs down on crypto rules after ‘thousands’ of comments techcentral.co.za/treasury-c…
Freddie New retweeted
Treasury backs down on ludicrous crypto rules after being inundated with 'thousands' of comments.
BREAKING | Treasury backs down on crypto rules after ‘thousands’ of comments techcentral.co.za/treasury-c…
Freddie New retweeted
Loving the Great Exhibition in Lincolnshire! Great to have you here with us @Jcastweet on the @RenewaBlox stand ... its been super busy so first chance we've had to post. @BitcoinColl @CL_Wheeler
