Avoid using Canonical's Snap Store for including proprietary software and Ubuntu for bringing Snap Store by default. (I've heard you also need to register for a Ubuntu Pro account in order to update repositories now. It's free for 5 devices per account, but why introduce this?)

It is important to recognize that such trickery could happen with open-source software, too.

https://popey.com/blog/2024/02/exodus-bitcoin-wallet-490k-swindle/

@PatriotFrontUpdates » Thomas Rousseau, leader of Patriot Front, was arrested by Texas law enforcement on February 23 on a felony warrant out of Charlottesville, Virginia. The arrest comes after a nearly 7-year witch hunt by politically motivated prosecutors, stemming from the events that transpired at the Unite the Right rally in 2017. Rousseau faces a fabricated felony charge for "Burning Objects with Intent to Intimidate.”

This is the burden that American patriots must bear. Patriot Front will continue to organize and work in the nation's cause unimpeded.

"Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission. We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." - George Washington

As the public face of a White Nationalist group, Thomas ROUSSEAU must have known that one day he would find himself behind bars. I am a little surprised that the only charge they could nail him with was lighting a tiki torch some 7 years ago.

I'm not here to fling mud. Everyone knows the risks involved by now. ROUSSEAU did what he thought was right. Many dissidents, determined to find a peaceful solution, joined Patriot Front's ranks. They organized, dressed in uniforms, and made public displays of solidarity and resistance against a tyrannical entity who is facilitating our destruction. I am sure many will continue to do so.

There's been a lot of infighting. Maybe for once, we can all be on the same page and not denigrate any of our brothers and sisters held captive as political prisoners.

But hey, look on the bright side... there had to be a Fight Club before there could be a Project Mayhem.

@PrivSecGoy

Apropos warrant number, btw.

🚨 LockBit ransomware operators are back online after a law enforcement takedown, blaming outdated software for the breach.

They are now calling for increased attacks on the government sector.

Find out more: https://thehackernews.com/2024/02/lockbit-ransomware-group-resurfaces.html

"There would not be the need for evidence that an offence has actually been commited."

This is from Canada's newly proposed "online hate" bill C-63.

Remember the United States is only ever a few years behind Canada/Europe/Australia...

Link

JOIN: http://t.me/steve_bannon

Posers.

Sam MELIA receives 24 months (the minimum sentence) after being found guilty of "inciting racial hatred" and "encouraging racially-aggravated criminal damage" (applying stickers), state media reports.

James DUNKERLY, head of the System's Counter Terrorism department was quoted as saying: "Those that seek to bring hatred to our communities through actions such as stickering will be identified and brought to justice."

No hot take here. This is what happens to pro-White dissidents the System can identify and sink their fangs into. Look at legislation being passed in Britain, Australia and Canada for what's coming next for online activism. Act accordingly.

Statement from MELIA's wife:

JUST IN: Multiple government websites, including DHS, ICE, FEMA and the Secret Service, are down. Cause unknown

💬 Orlando neo-Nazi accused of plotting to destroy Baltimore gets trial date

FBI agents arrested Brandon Russell, a known neo-Nazi leader, at his Orlando home last February.

Russell was accused of assisting a woman, who is also facing charges, in a plan to destroy multiple electrical substations surrounding the predominantly Black city.

The trial of Russell and Clendaniel is scheduled to begin in Maryland District Court July 8 and wrap up by the end of the month.

📌 Yahoo News

✅ New Right News

I think most of you already know that the US government pays tech and telecom companies for information on their users. In other words, using taxpayers’ own confiscated earnings to spy on and harass them. But this adds some context to the US government’s plan to force TikTok to be sold to a US company, or be banned.

What would change about TikTok being owned by a Silicon Valley company vs being owned by a Chinese company? TikTok will still feature total degeneracy, it will still have addictive algorithms that suck minors in, and it will still have content moderated by the ADL. But as a US company, the feds will have access to a smorgasbord of data on 170 million Americans (and over 1 billion worldwide), many of these being kids and people under 20.

https://archive.is/swctZ

https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/u-s-spy-agencies-know-our-secrets-they-bought-them-791e243f

There is no freedom without economic freedom. Make sure you're protecting yourself with the right tools:

https://www.getmonero.org/
https://kycnot.me/
https://www.techlore.tech/vpn.html
https://www.bitrefill.com/us/en/



Report: Federal Government Asked Big Banks to Surveil Purchases of VPNs and Gift Cards, Transfers to Crowdsourcing Sites

New documents pull back the curtain on the federal government's shocking push for mass financial surveillance that reportedly targeted millions of Americans.

In January, the House Judiciary Committee sounded the alarm about the federal government asking banks to surveil transactions related to certain keywords, such as “MAGA” and “Trump,” as part of investigations into January 6, 2021 at the Capitol. But new documents obtained by the House Judiciary Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government have revealed that the surveillance that was initially identified by the House Judiciary Committee in January was much broader than these early reports suggested.

The House Judiciary Committee’s initial letter about this financial surveillance revealed that the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) sent several financial institutions lists of terms that it deemed to be indicators of potential violent extremism and suggested that banks use these search terms to flag suspect transactions. These lists included terms such as MAGA and Trump and also recommended searching for more generic terms, such as terms related to purchases of transportation and terms related to purchases of books (including religious texts) and other media that FinCEN deemed to be “extremist.”

These new documents, which were shared in a report noscriptd “Financial Surveillance in the United States: How Federal Law Enforcement Commandeered Financial Institutions to Spy on Americans,” show that the list of terms FinCEN asked banks and financial institutions to flag was much wider.

In one document, FinCEN brands lawful activities, such as “frequent ATM withdrawals and wire transfers with no apparent economic or business purpose” and “purchases that appear excessive or unusual for hobbyist or other legitimate use,” as potential indicators of violent extremism.

In another document, FinCEN brands purchases of privacy-preserving tools, such as virtual private networks (VPNs), “counter-surveillance equipment,” or “secure communications equipment,” as potential “red flags” for “active shooter detection.”

Source: https://reclaimthenet.org/federal-government-big-banks-surveil-purchases-vpns-gift-cards

Drug dealers and users are getting extorted in onion land by website administrators threatening to leak their "encrypted" chats.

Those who manually used PGP encryption and never had sensitive information sent in cleartext (or entered as plaintext in their browser before/after encrypting) are presumably in the clear. Those who didn't (or trusted the website to encrypt for them) are biting their nails hoping their amphetamine supplier ponies up the $20k extortion being asked of them to keep their conversations safe. It might get leaked anyway.

One slip-up is all it takes. Complacency and laziness "win" against diligence every time.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/03/incognito-darknet-market-mass-extorts-buyers-sellers/

https://news.1rj.ru/str/slashbizchannel/52098

I wanted to comment on the two public dissident artists being targeted within 24 hours of each other this week: the creator of the comic Stonetoss, and the satirical musician foundring. I will address the backstory and advise how you can avoid becoming the next victim.

Stonetoss
I won't publish his name here. If Stonetoss is who antifa claims him to be, he fits the prototypical White Supremacist to a T: an ethnic Puerto Rican living in Texas.

Some antifa troon made this (frankly unhinged) 99-post thread on X. This has since been censored, but archives were quickly created before X moderators could intervene. They allege the creator of Stonetoss is also the creator of Red Panels, an artistically similar comic that ended the year Stonetoss published its first comic.

There is a slew of information that Red Panels revealed online. He mentions a city he presumably was living in, reminisced about the 1st 8chan birthday meet-up (a New York Magazine article allegedly quotes him from this event), etc.

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One of the more damning mistakes was using his personal email (under his own name!) on the alt-tech social media website Gab. As a result of the Gab breach, this email was found to be associated with the Red Panels account.

This same email was found to be used on a Bitcoin forum, where he revealed many personal details about himself, including his location, field of employment, the state he previously lived in, etc.

Additionally, Red Panels had a debate with Sargon of Akkad in 2016. Stonetoss had an interview with Ethan Ralph on Killstream. The voices are seemingly identical.

There's more supportive evidence listed on their blog that they have collected over the years on Stonetoss, but the above makes the foundation for these allegations. As a result, a legion of spiteful mutants has descended upon this man and his employer. Coincidentally, the Stonetoss telegram channel has its comments turned off, and the Stonetoss X account is full of people doxing him.

foundring
Kylan made no attempt to hide his identity. He has gone as far as to reveal his former employer and his physical location.

Kylan publicly shared his termination email on his foundring substack back in September 2023. The administration at Kirby School in Santa Cruz fired him from the music department on his first day for questioning the efficacy of having choir students wear cloth masks. Earlier that year, troons posted his home address on X and made death threats over his offensive songs.

Kylan has been fired again, this time because a parent of one of the children he taught took offense to his song "You Will Never Be A Woman." The school board is out for his blood. Surprisingly, though, they didn't care as much about "Oy Vey Shut It Down."

I don't have much more to say about foundring, as he appears to have accepted being a public figure and the scrutiny that follows.

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