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X Users Find Their Real Names Are Being Googled in Israel (mintpressnews.com)

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Google Wants to Control Your Device (jmp.chat)

5

(Open) Widevine support added to the OpenBSD Chromium port (undeadly.org)

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Trump spectrum sale leaves airlines with $4.5B bill for altimeter do-over (theregister.com)

2

The XMPP Newsletter December 2025 (xmpp.org)

2

Verifiable Brute Force Strength (gist.github.com)

1

A Journalist Reported from Palestine. YouTube Deleted His Account (theintercept.com)

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NSA and IETF, part 3: Dodging the issues at hand (cr.yp.to)

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GNOME 50 completes the migration to Wayland, dropping X11 backend code (linuxiac.com)

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From Collaborators to Consumers: Have We Killed the Soul of Open Source? (dragas.net)

2

A Few Comments on 'Age' (neilmadden.blog)

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DMARC: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (wordtothewise.com)

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The mad king's digital killswitch (pluralistic.net)

2

The XMPP Newsletter (September 2025) (xmpp.org)

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Jabber / XMPP Userbase and Popularity (glukhov.org)

3

Defending Amateur Radio Spectrum: The AST SpaceMobile Battle Continues (openresearch.institute)

14

Polarizing Parsers (tedunangst.com)

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XMPP: When a 25-Year-Old Protocol Becomes Strategic Again (process-one.net)

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Giving Up on Element and Matrix.org (xn--gckvb8fzb.com)

6

Why Did Cars Get So Hard to See Out Of? (bloomberg.com)

2

End to End Encrypted Messaging in the News: An Editorial Usability Case Study (59.ca)

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Curl has banned the use of AI-generated submissions via HackerOne (mastodon.social)

2

You Have Installed OpenBSD. Now for the Daily Tasks (nxdomain.no)

1

Prosody 13.0.0 Released (prosody.im)

1

Everything You Think You Know About DeltaChat Is Wrong (feld.me)

8

With Great Power Came No Responsibility (pluralistic.net)

2

It's a Myth That All Capital Letters Are Inherently Harder to Read (theteamw.com)

1

The XMPP Newsletter November 2024 (xmpp.org)

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GitHub projects targeted with malicious commits to frame researcher (bleepingcomputer.com)

6

Mossad's pager operation: Inside Israel's penetration of Hezbollah (msn.com)

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Proposed New OpenPGP Cipher Block Modes Could Cause an Interoperability Disaster (59.ca)

2

Raspberry Pi RP2350-E9 Erratum Redefined as Input Mode Leakage Current (hackaday.com)

2

Patents for software and genetic code could be revived by two bills in Congress (arstechnica.com)

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How did Hezbollah get the pagers that exploded in Lebanon? (aljazeera.com)

3

Emails encryption at rest on OpenBSD using dovecot and GPG (dataswamp.org)

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The XMPP Newsletter July 2024 (xmpp.org)

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Full-featured email server running OpenBSD (dataswamp.org)

2

The XMPP Newsletter June 2024 (xmpp.org)

1

Backing up secret keys (and getting them back) (ayra.ch)

8

OpenBSD Extreme Privacy Setup (dataswamp.org)

1

PGP Key Expiry Is a Usability Nightmare (59.ca)

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XMPP app (Monal) banned from Chinese iOS appstore (monal-im.org)

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Hydrogen-powered train FLIRT H2 achieves 2,803 km nonstop [pdf] (stadlerrail.com)

2

More thoughts on vulnerabilities and misaligned incentives (yossarian.net)

2

The FBI Is Using Push Notifications to Catch Sexual Predators (gizmodo.com)

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Google's retiring of Internet archiving tool draws ire of China researchers (aljazeera.com)

3

Terry Gilliam's Air Canada (rifters.com)

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My Comments Are in the Google Doc Linked in the Dropbox I Sent in the Slack (mcsweeneys.net)

3

Word for OpenBSD (marc.info)

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Misleading Legends Caused by Efail (59.ca)

3

Former CIA employee sentenced to 40 years in prison for Vault 7 leak (cnn.com)

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Pilots describe 'bizarre' lights and 'triangles' over Canada in ATC audio (ctvnews.ca)

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OpenBSD Workstation Hardening (dataswamp.org)

2

A Neighbourly Solution to the 'X is Deprecated? ' Conundrum (2020) (divergent-desktop.org)

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XMPP Providers Automated (xmpp.net)

3

Arcan 0.6.3 – I, pty: the fool (arcan-fe.com)

10

About the "OpenPGP Schism" (59.ca)

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Winners of the 2023 IFComp (ifcomp.org)

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The Network Effect of Telecommunications Vulnerabilities for Location Disclosure (citizenlab.ca)

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Musk May Have Given Up on Privacy for His Jet Travels, but Taylor Swift Hasn't (forbes.com/sites/jeremybogaisky)

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Port of the Week: Presenting Syncthing (dataswamp.org)

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Independently Confirming Amnesty Security Lab's Finding of Predator Targeting (citizenlab.ca)

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Ghosts in the code: the near crash of Qantas flight 72 (admiralcloudberg.medium.com)

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The Dark Side of Logic: The near crash of SmartLynx Estonia flight 9001 (admiralcloudberg.medium.com)

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PGP Key Expiry Is a Usability Nightmare (59.ca)

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2048 Bit RSA and the Year 2030 (59.ca)

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Why one would use Qubes OS? (dataswamp.org)

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You can link an OpenPGP key to a German eID (governikus.de)

3

On Ashton Kutcher and Secure Multi-Party Computation (cryptographyengineering.com)

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In Québec, a New Traffic Light Only Turns Green for Safe Drivers (streetsblog.org)

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New GnuPG Feature: The Additional Decryption Subkey (gnupg.org)

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Long Live the Free Software Foundation (concernednetizen.com)

4

OpenBSD: Network Improvements (reddit.com)

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Flooding attack against synchronising PGP keyservers (nongnu.org)

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Real-Time Blocklists for XMPP (xmppbl.org)

2

Losing Signal (ploum.net)

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Dynamic host configuration, please (OpenBSD) (sha256.net)

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Twitter’s privacy-preserving Tor service goes dark (techcrunch.com)

2

Host a Server with OpenBSD (si3t.ch)

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The US Air Force may have shot down an amateur radio pico balloon over Canada (rtl-sdr.com)

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Is it possible to make a PGP message that anyone can decrypt? (reddit.com)

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Germany: Police surveillance software a legal headache (dw.com)

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GnuPG 2.4.0 released (silver anniversary) (gnupg.org)

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Blackmailing MoneyMonger Malware Hides in Flutter Mobile Apps (darkreading.com)

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Notes on the F-Droid security warning (snikket.org)

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Writing a Chat Client from Scratch (jmp.chat)

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Microsoft brings helicopters, gliders and the Spruce Goose to its Flight SIM (techcrunch.com)

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Authors for Libraries (fightforthefuture.org)

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Cheaper, more environmentally friendly alternative to fertilizer

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The first beta of Slidge (XMPP bridges) is out

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OpenBSD on the Framework Laptop