Dragonfly spotted.

Another day, another data breach. ALL DATABASES WILL LEAK.

Hanlon's razor. Often applies. Verify, don't trust helps find Faulty tools Made by fools.

I'm quite amazed that there was zero reporting on legacy media about the ColdCard disaster. Normally they jump on any negative Bitcoin news. My only guess is that they have such a huge alergy to speaking about self-custody that they won't even mention it in a negative context. Or maybe they just don't understand what happened...

If— By Rudyard Kipling If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or being hated, don’t give way to hating, And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise: If you can dream—and not make dreams your master; If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools: If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’ If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!

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As AI powered hacks intensify, the natural response is to flee offline. Close code. Restrict access. In the short term it will close attack vectors, but in the long term it will make attacks even more catastrophic. FOSS is the forward looking answer. It will evolve and adapt faster. It will patch bugs and vulnerabilities. It will become antifragile. You can isolate yourself on an island to prevent contagion... but when it eventually comes it will be devastating to unprepared and weakened inmune systems. The Silk Road transmitted Asian plagues to Europe, devastating a generation. But the survivors ushered the Renaissance, the Age of Exploration and the Enlightenment. America was saved from the Black Death by isolation, but when contact with the world finally came, smallpox wiped out a majority of the native population.

ALL DATABASES WILL LEAK.

The hardest surveillance app to quit is whatsapp. The network effect is very strong. So many family and friends groups that it would be hard to abandon. Still, I'm ready to do it as soon as I can get a decent alternative for private messages and group chat. It will take a lot of convincing, but I'm autistic enough that I can drag some of my contacts along and ignore the protest of others. Hopefully leading by example. It would really help if Nostr DMs and group chats worked!

I stopped underestimating the risk of supply chain attacks after the Lebanon pager attack. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Lebanon_electronic_device_attacks

This is great. Even better would be how to generate a seed without ANY hardware. Dice + BIP39 wordlist How do you do calculate the checksum word?