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My Privacy Stack 2026 (and why each pick) 📱 Pixel + GrapheneOS - only Android worth running 🗣️ SimpleX (no ids), Signal (mass adoption), Session (no phone#), Threema (CH) 🌐 Tor for sensitive, Brave for daily, Vanadium on mobile, Ungoogled Chromium as fallback 🔍 Kagi as default, Brave Search as fallback (paying not to be the product) 🛡️ Mullvad as default, IVPN as backup, NymVPN for mixnet, InviZible Pro for DNS 🔑 Bitwarden client + self-hosted Vaultwarden - your vault, your server ✉️ Self-hosted webmail for control, neromail .app for trash, Tuta as fallback 🪙 Monero.com & Monerujo on mobile, Monero GUI & Feather Wallet on desktop 🗒️ Joplin (E2EE WebDAV) + FromScratch 📡 Amethyst on mobile - and I'm forking it into Monostr, a Monero-first Nostr client 🛠️ VSCodium - VS Code without Microsoft telemetry 📄 OSS Document Scanner (no cloud upload) 💻 Ubuntu, snap-free, vendor telemetry removed Stack you'd swap in?

Your email address is the spine of your digital identity Every account is linked to it Protect it accordingly

KYC collects your ID for compliance Then stores it forever Then gets breached Every KYC database is a liability

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@schmidt1024 KYC collects your ID > Someone stores it > Someone gets breached > Users pay the price. Privacy should be the default. 🔒

@linuxuser1996 Quod erat demonstrandum

Countries where a YouTube video critizing EU's Chat Control has been banned.

EU censors criticism of censorship

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They are not building safety infrastructure. They are building compliance infrastructure. And calling it child protection.

True fungibility protects everyone, from a tiny criminal minority to the honest masses. Strip privacy from money and you don't stop crooks, you cage everyone.

1/ ⚠️ Important Security Notice A swap security issue has been identified and is being fixed. Until the patch is live, withdraw your offers, don't start new swaps, and if you have a swap in progress (especially stalled or near timeout), shut your node down and leave it off.

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Kraken US will begin applying monthly transaction limits to Monero on August 15. Individual withdrawal limits are set to $1,500 and deposit limits are $3500. I confirmed this with @krakensupport.

Stop depositing and selling $XMR on kraken (or any cex for that matter). Buy and Withdraw only, if you need to sell some, swap it for something like btc or ltc, and sell that to the cex instead.

⚠️BasicSwapDEX identified a security issue affecting swaps and a fix is on the way. Withdraw all of your active offers, and don't post new ones. If you have a swap in progress, particularly one that has stalled or is approaching its timeout, shut down your BasicSwap node and leave it off until the fix is released.

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@thecybersecguru Exactly. Collect only what's necessary. Retain only as long as legally required.

Not really. Storing of KYC data instead of deleting it after a certain time period is a huge liability. If required, reKYC can be done but KYC data should not be stored. Else, a centralized KYC system should be made to reduce the attack points (although not as robust of a solution as deleting KYC data and reKYC)

Mandatory digital ID for social media is the blueprint for a social credit system. Centralized identity erodes privacy, chills free speech and expands state mass surveillance

@nightshift_tony A database can be necessary. A compulsory database of everyone's identity is a different category of risk. The burden is on KYC advocates to show the benefits outweigh the inevitable breach costs.

@schmidt1024 Every database is a liability so should we just not have them? Has the same ring it is as security vs. freedom.

We're excited to announce that GUI v0.18.5.1 'Fluorine Fermi' has been released! 'This recommended release includes a large number of bug fixes.'

“We must come together and create systems which allow anonymous transactions to take place.” Eric Hughes, 1993, Cypherpunk