Watching Silo is fun until you realize it's just a documentary about us. We stare at screens,fear the outside,and let the IT Department run the government. Honestly,if you handed me a VR headset with a 4K view of paradise,I'd probably clean the lens too. www.keystone-collective.org/the-admin-if...

If you’re fine with ICE snatching people off the streets without due process, but checking your Facebook posts is where you draw the line, you might want to recalibrate that moral compass. news.sky.com/story/us-pla...

The internet is essential to how people speak, learn, and participate in public life. When access depends on flawed technology or hard-to-obtain documents, we deepen existing inequalities and silence the people who most need these platforms. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

React2Shell blog update 🚨 compromised Next.js nodes are rapidly being enlisted into botnets; threat actor activity reaches ~80 source countries; and more. #React2Shell #Nextjs #GreyNoise #ThreatIntel

I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...

Grifters gonna grift, pivoting from scam to scam like it’s a startup feature, not a character flaw. No product, no plan, just vibes, buzzwords, and a hand already in your wallet.

Cognitec's FaceVACS-DBScan ID v5.5, used by UK police, shows huge racial bias. False matches for Black & Asian faces shoot up, while white faces skate by. But sure, tell us how "AI will make policing fairer". www.theregister.com/2025/12/08/i...

Corporate boards talk "cyber posture" while ignoring every warning. Households talk "who downloaded this dodgy thing?" while doing actual incident response. We're basically CISOs with biscuits. You may even be more agile than half the FTSE 100. www.keystone-collective.org/home-sweet-b...

It still feels like the moment three little cuties blasted through Enter Sandman back in 2014 and instantly got adopted by thousands of internet aunts and uncles. Now, several killer albums later, every new track they drop is an absolute banger. #TheWarning ❤️‍🔥 youtube.com/watch?v=ICaT...

The Gospel According to Peter Thiel: Silicon Valley’s Rasputin and the Politics of the Apocalypse There’s a moment in every civilization, usually right before the wheels come off, when the richest people in the room start talking about demons. www.keystone-collective.org/the-gospel-a...

How Epstein Infiltrated the Silicon Valley Network Behind Trump’s New Tech Order. bylinetimes.com/2025/12/03/h...

The terrifying part isn't that your smart fridge can join a botnet. It's that the botnet will have redundancy, scalability, and CI/CD practices your engineering team could only dream of. Crime shouldn't be this good at DevOps. www.keystone-collective.org/modern-botne...

Harborne was also a backer of the cryptocurrency Tether, which has been found by National Crime Agency investigators to be used to help Russia fight its war against Ukraine. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Regex. Invented to understand neurons, evolved into a computational knife that can parse text, melt CPUs, summon Unicode nightmares, and ruin weekends. Not regular, barely expression, and mostly trauma. Still we use it. Still we love it. www.keystone-collective.org/the-perverse...

According to journalists,every company is founded by a lone genius who codes with one hand while reinventing society with the other. NVIDIA had 3 founders,Tesla had 2 before Musk,Facebook had a whole squad. But sure, let’s keep the superhero fanfic going. www.keystone-collective.org/the-great-fo...

Corporate HR loves to 'celebrate neurodiversity', right up until someone actually thinks differently. GCHQ, meanwhile, just gives them the keys to the firewall. You need someone who hasn't looked up from the packet logs in 10 hours, bless them. New read: www.keystone-collective.org/seeing-what-...

The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"

Ep 166 is here! "Maxie" The long awaited episode is here! I'm excited to introduce you to Maxie Reynolds. The people on my team all said this episode blew their mind. 🤯 darknetdiaries.com/episode/166/

So it sure looks like someone invented a fake Russian advance in Ukraine to manipulate the online gambling market Polymarket. Gamblers are making money by betting on the outcomes of battles big and small in the war. Edited map is run by DC-based think tank www.404media.co/unauthorized...

On 8 December, politicians in the UK will be debating a petition that reached almost 3 million signatories rejecting mandatory digital ID. If you’re based in the UK, contact your MP through Big Brother Watch’s tool to oppose the plans for a digital ID system. bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/campaigns/n...

Until tech gives more agency to citizens, smart cities are a dumb idea for democracy. "While cities may disclose how they collect data, they rarely offer ways to opt out." "Residents want agency" #privacy #AIEthics spectrum.ieee.org/smart-city-p...

Myanmar’s military has been blowing up parts of the KK Park scam compound. Experts say the actions are likely for show.

We cannot base our human rights on the government’s mere promise to uphold them. The UK government must listen to the public and civil society organizations in the country and say no to digital ID.

Unicode isn't a standard. It's a geopolitical fever dream where linguistics, cyber warfare, influence ops, censorship, OSINT, and national identity all collide. Homoglyph attacks, script politics, emoji diplomacy, etc. Encoding=Recognition=Politics www.keystone-collective.org/the-geopolit...

The 1990s Crypto Wars, when cryptography was treated like ordnance, RSA sparked bureaucratic terror, insecure 40-bit export ciphers haunted the internet for decades, and governments tried to outlaw mathematics. Featuring: smuggled paperbacks and T-shirt. www.keystone-collective.org/the-great-pr...

Windows telemetry is so deranged, if I sneeze near the keyboard, it sends it in as a “potential user input anomaly".

Cryptocurrency backed by Farage donor is used for Russian war effort, investigators say www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I just hope the AI bubble bursts before the UK government decides to give billions in subsidies to all those tech-bro dropouts.

Satellites. Orbiting marvels of modern engineering. Beaming global connectivity. Broadcasting... plain-text Telnet logins. Alien abductors willing to take whoever decided Telnet over GEO was acceptable in 2025. New read at: www.keystone-collective.org/when-a-500-s...

The modern vehicle is a #surveillance platform with cup holder, and we're all just quietly pretending that's normal. Once a symbol of freedom, now a snitchy little laptop on wheels that monetises every bad line change you make. New read at: www.keystone-collective.org/black-boxes-...

Journalism 👇

Commits trapped in queue, the cloud forgets its promise; gravity returns. #github #haiku

Resilience, they claim; yet one cloud’s restless shadow dims a thousand suns. #cloudflare #haiku

Turns out your nervous system is a better password than your password. Keystroke timing, mouse tremor, hesitation gaps, all becoming part of behavioural threat intelligence. Welcome to micro-rhythm biometrics, where your cursor has a testimony to give. www.keystone-collective.org/operation-mi...

New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings “Big tech has made their choice” www.404media.co/google-has-c...

A guide on how to spot disinformation clusters online so you can finally win an argument with your uncle who thinks tweet is a peer-reviewed journal. It's sarcastic enough to scare off anyone with a functioning amygdala. New read at: www.keystone-collective.org/a-polite-gui...

War tourist foreigners 'paid £80k to shoot at civilians' during Siege of Sarajevo. WTF? www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...

OpenAI used song lyrics in violation of copyright laws, German court says. www.reuters.com/world/german...

Every civilisation invents rituals to keep the chaos at bay. Theirs involved salt, chants, and holy water. Ours involves firewalls, VPNs, and "Have you tried turning it off and on again?" The technology changes. The superstition doesn't. www.keystone-collective.org/the-folklore... #anthropology

We don't need the state to watch us anymore. We volunteer. How the gaze became mutual, the watcher became the watched, and privacy became a performance. The Psychology of Watching and Being Watched New read at: www.keystone-collective.org/the-psycholo... #surveillance

Exclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...

A jailed hacking kingpin reveals all about the gang that left a trail of destruction. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Corporate HR loves to 'celebrate neurodiversity', right up until someone actually thinks differently. GCHQ, meanwhile, just gives them the keys to the firewall. You need someone who hasn't looked up from the packet logs in 10 hours, bless them. New read: www.keystone-collective.org/seeing-what-...

The bear and the bot farm: Countering Russian hybrid warfare in Africa ecfr.eu/publication/...

NSO's new executive chairman is a Trump former official, in case you're wondering how hard the company is gunning for those sweet, sweet US government contracts. www.wsj.com/tech/israeli...

UK Investigates Remote ‘Kill Switch’ on Chinese-made Buses The Department for Transport is working with the National Cyber Security Centre to understand whether vehicles made by Yutong can be remotely deactivated. www.thetimes.com/business-mon...

Ever opened a .pcap file and felt your soul leave your body? 'PCAP's and Panic Attacks: Learning to Read the #Network Without Crying' A guide for anyone who's stared into a Wireshark and seen only chaos. It's not noise. It's gossip. New read at: www.keystone-collective.org/pcaps-and-pa...

Google's new global ID registration system means more risk for developers, and fewer options for users. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

In the age of seamless tracking, friction is rebellion. Encrypt. Jam. Blur. Make the algorithm work for it's supper. You can't opt out of the grid, but you can make the grid regret adding you. #privacy #surveillance #technology www.keystone-collective.org/the-technolo...

If you’re confused about the difference between “age verification,” “age estimation,” “age assurance,” and “age gate” — you’re not alone. Let’s help you make sense of it all. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...