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Three members of a Chicago white nationalist group have been identified thanks to the work of anonymous antifascist infiltrators.
Using license plates from their vehicles and personal details shared in a private vetting chat,
an activist who gained access to their inner circle identified the men behind the group as James Hammans (37), Džiugas Dirzys (22), and Arkadiusz Kowalczyk (38).
Unraveled has verified the information collected and confirmed the identities of the three …

Exposed: White nationalist group responsible for hate spree across Chicagoland
Members of the Windy City Active Club include a USPS worker, a recent finance grad from DePaul, and a Polish American tied to other hate groups.

CFO Palantir talking about how they're working to make the various data streams of surveillance efficiently useful and remove the needle-in-a-haystack anonymity we have previously enjoyed. Awesome.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/opinion

I like to play around as an anonymous commenter in online newspaper columns. If you point out the biases of #AI systems, the comment gets deleted because it is considered too polemical.
The comment was addressing an article about AI in public service and the use in refugee applications 🫣

VeilAudit: Breaking the Deadlock Between Privacy and Accountability Across Blockchains
Minhao Qiao, Iqbal Gondal, Hai Dong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12153 https://

VeilAudit: Breaking the Deadlock Between Privacy and Accountability Across Blockchains
Cross chain interoperability in blockchain systems exposes a fundamental tension between user privacy and regulatory accountability. Existing solutions enforce an all or nothing choice between full anonymity and mandatory identity disclosure, which limits adoption in regulated financial settings. We present VeilAudit, a cross chain auditing framework that introduces Auditor Only Linkability, which allows auditors to link transaction behaviors that originate from the same anonymous entity withou…

Komoot hat jetzt "Heatmaps" eingeführt und die Voreinstelllung scheint nicht datensparsam zu sein. Das würd' ich abschalten. Unterwegs will ich nur Fußstapfen, Reifenspuren und Freundlichkeit zurücklassen, aber keinen Abfall und keinen Datenmüll.
#bigbrother #komoot

I've been in favor of safe haven baby boxes since I heard about them years ago. But this article made me think more about the concept along with how it could be improved.
https://time.com/7299476/baby-box-infant-abandonment/

Why Baby Boxes Are Suddenly Everywhere
Devices to help parents anonymously surrender an infant are spreading across the U.S., stirring emotions and debate.

A Comprehensive Survey of Website Fingerprinting Attacks and Defenses in Tor: Advances and Open Challenges
Yuwen Cui, Guangjing Wang, Khanh Vu, Kai Wei, Kehan Shen, Zhengyuan Jiang, Xiao Han, Ning Wang, Zhuo Lu, Yao Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11804

A Comprehensive Survey of Website Fingerprinting Attacks and Defenses in Tor: Advances and Open Challenges
The Tor network provides users with strong anonymity by routing their internet traffic through multiple relays. While Tor encrypts traffic and hides IP addresses, it remains vulnerable to traffic analysis attacks such as the website fingerprinting (WF) attack, achieving increasingly high fingerprinting accuracy even under open-world conditions. In response, researchers have proposed a variety of defenses, ranging from adaptive padding, traffic regularization, and traffic morphing to adversarial…