m0wer

tech

Four years ago, Chris found a vulnerability with a murder for hire site on the dark net. He could exploit that vulnerability to intercept the murder orders that were being placed: names, addresses, pattern of life information, photos, and, in some cases, bitcoin payments. He reached out to Carl for help, and a small team was built in secret to intercept and triage these orders. However, after their warnings to the police fell on deaf ears, they ultimately decided to warn the targets on the kill list directly. After an initial series of successes, the investigation expanded rapidly and they formed a global cooperation with the FBI and police forces around the world, resulting over 175 murder orders being disclosed, 34 arrests 28 convictions and over 180 years of prison time being sentenced. This talk will be about those years: about the dangers and threats the team had to navigate, the times of isolation when the police wouldn’t take them seriously, about raids in Romania to uncover the cyber-criminal gang running the site and the psychological impact of racing against time to try to stop people getting murdered.

DEF CON 33 - Kill List: Hacking an Assassination Site on the Dark Web - YouTube

The `ADD` instruction can download files from URLs and handle verification and permissions in one step:

```dockerfile
ADD --checksum=sha256:1daceab1a7613603072db34d406659f0865623a4f137637440764cb9aa31236c \
    --chmod=500 \
    --chown=1000:1000 \
    https://github.com/CycloneDX/cyclonedx-cli/releases/download/v0.29.1/cyclonedx-linux-x64 \
    /usr/local/bin/cyclonedx
```

This downloads the binary, verifies the SHA256 checksum, sets permissions to 500, and assigns ownership to uid:gid 1000:1000.

No need for `RUN curl && chmod && chown` chains. The `--checksum` flag ensures the build fails if the file is modified or corrupted.

Using ADD in Dockerfiles for direct downloads with advanced features

bitcoin

Bitcoin Taproot vs Native SegWit

science

Suits, Money Laundering, and Linear Programming

econ

Which is Worse: Taxes or Fiat Money?

kepford

I chose fiat not thinking about myself but about the whole world.

Most people hate taxes already and try to avoid them. But I also think most people won't ever realize about the fiat scam on their own.

So overall I think fiat is way more harmful than taxes in our world today.

Python 3.14 Is Here. How Fast Is It?

lightning

A notification system for Lightning Network nodes that monitors and notifies about important events.

This project is heavily inspired by balanceofsatoshis, but with the aim of offering much greater customisation and a wider range of notification destinations.

Primexz/lndnotify: ⚡️ LND Lightning Notification Client

This PEP introduces syntax for lazy imports as an explicit language feature:

```python
lazy import json
lazy from json import dumps
```

Lazy imports defer the loading and execution of a module until the first time the imported name is used, in contrast to ‘normal’ imports, which eagerly load and execute a module at the point of the import statement.

By allowing developers to mark individual imports as lazy with explicit syntax, Python programs can reduce startup time, memory usage, and unnecessary work. This is particularly beneficial for command-line tools, test suites, and applications with large dependency graphs.

This proposal preserves full backwards compatibility: normal import statements remain unchanged, and lazy imports are enabled only where explicitly requested.

PEP 810 – Explicit lazy imports

bitcoin_Mining

Parasite Pool goes open source

Scoresby

There's no generic way to know the hashrate unless the pool mines something. Those metrics infer the hashrate from the number of blocks mined in the last 24 hours.

You can't know the works other are doing unless that work earns them a block. And then it's just an estimation of their hashrate because luck is involved.

In their pool website you can see the hashrate, but just because the share difficulty is much lower than the block difficulty.

Memes

![Security](https://m.stacker.news/110620)

xkcd: Security

Gary Bojczak drove a truck for a construction company that was constantly tracking his vehicle. Plugging a little dongle into the cigarette lighter could block that surveillance, but ended up causing way more problems than it solved.

Jammer! He Just Wanted Privacy, But This Little Device Caused Big Trouble - YT

Hard Talking About Bitcoin With Simon Dixon | Once Bitten

DarthCoin

Making Things People Want vs. Making Things That Alter Thinking

You locked down your data. Now what?

Cool. You’re not leaking location to Meta. Your phone’s running Graphene. Your browser’s hardened. But here’s the part they don’t tell you: privacy alone won’t save your mind.

The noise still gets in.

The real enemy now isn’t just surveillance. It’s burnout. Overload. A thousand signals screaming for your attention some from Big Tech, some from your own side.

Privacy Is Just the Start. Now Let’s Make It Sustainable

security

With warshipping, hackers ship their exploits directly to their target's office

Politics_And_Law

The Fourth Turning is more than just a historical theory—it’s a framework that helps us understand the cycles of history and how they shape the world we live in today. Developed by historians William Strauss and Neil Howe, this theory suggests that history moves in cycles, each lasting about 80-100 years, and broken into four distinct phases, or “turnings.” These turnings reflect patterns of social and political upheaval, growth and rebirth. Understanding them can offer valuable insight into where we are headed.

The Fourth Turning Explained: Why It Matters and How to Prepare for What’s Next

nostr

Nostr Archiver Extension is a browser extension for archiving websites and publishing them to blossom. This is a fork of ArchiveWeb.page with the goal of replacing archive.org with a decentralized, crowdsourced, and crowdfunded effort to preserve the legacy of the web, fix the problem of broken links, and harness the power of the multitude instead of delegating this important job to a single organization.

The extension creates, stores, and replays high-fidelity web archives stored directly in the browser's storage (via IndexedDB). Archives can be published to Nostr relays using the Blossom protocol for decentralized storage and sharing.