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Judge: Flock's ALPR network is 'indiscriminate mass surveillance'
A federal judge ruled Flock's automated license plate reader network constitutes indiscriminate mass surveillance.
Surveillance
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ICE contract exposes network behind HSI wiretap operations
A leaked ICE procurement document details the network infrastructure supporting Homeland Security Investigations' wiretaps.
Resistance
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Tens of thousands march in Spain over housing crisis
Mass protests swept Spanish cities after housing legislation failed, with an evicted 87-year-old becoming a symbol of the fight.
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Romanian farmers' protest hijacked by anti-system narratives online
A genuine economic grievance behind a Bucharest farmers' protest was amplified and co-opted by pre-existing anti-system narratives.
Countermeasures
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Minneapolis activists used encrypted chats to outmaneuver ICE
Activists in Minneapolis used encrypted group chats to evade ICE, and federal prosecutors now want to charge them.
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Tor Project calls for more Snowflake proxies to fight censorship
Tor's Snowflake, a lightweight stateless proxy, helps people in censored regions reach the Tor network.
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New open-source VPN client adds Hysteria2 and VLESS Reality
A new open-source VPN client called Colitu supports newer censorship-resistant protocols including Hysteria2 and VLESS Reality.
Makers
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Hacker builds FIDO2 security key from a cheap RP2040-Zero board
A hobbyist turned a cheap RP2040-Zero microcontroller into a working FIDO2/WebAuthn hardware security key.
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Hacker bypasses ESP32's closed Wi-Fi binary to inject raw frames
A developer reverse-engineered ESP32's closed-source Wi-Fi binary to inject raw SAE Commit frames.
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DOOM ported to run on an old consumer Wi-Fi router
A hacker ported 1993's DOOM to a Xiaomi Mi Redmi AC2100 router, building a custom RPi Pico controller for input.