I built RootAccess to share my thoughts on cybersecurity, digital rights, privacy, and the global tech landscape. It’s a space for anyone curious about how technology shapes our world and how to take control of your digital life ...
Privacy stalwart Nicholas Merrill spent a decade fighting an FBI surveillance order. Now he wants to sell you phone service—without knowing almost anything about you. ...
TLDR; Nicholas Merrill, a well known privacy activist, launched Phreeli, a phone service that lets you use mobile data and calls without giving your identity. It runs on T Mobiles network but only keeps a ZIP code and uses zero knowledge crypto so even payments are not linked to you. Merrill spent 10 years fighting the FBI over surveillance and now wants to make privacy simple and normal for everyone.
With the UK apparently floating ideas of a VPN ban it's got me worried about the future of anonymity online. Now people have already pointed out that a VPN ban doesn't make sense because of all the legitimate uses of one and wouldn't even be enforceable anyway, but that got me thinking. ...
Not much to say, I just needed to shout out to the world. It feels great having finally acted on how I have felt for so long. I still got a long way to go, but I feel like this is a turning point and I am just so excited! To anyone who feels similarly but is apprehensive about injections, I have to say that the procedure was so ...
So, its been a while for me ( 10 years ) that IK I'm a transgender women ( 23 rn ) but how ever because of my family ( they are religious ) and my country government nu-written law I couldn't hrt. All I need is approve of a therapist so my family would buy their words, but every therapist I went tries to convince me that I'm ...
Introducing RootAccess, My Digital Freedom Journal ( rootaccess.zist.digital )
I built RootAccess to share my thoughts on cybersecurity, digital rights, privacy, and the global tech landscape. It’s a space for anyone curious about how technology shapes our world and how to take control of your digital life ...
Trump says US has "captured" Venezuelan President Maduro and his wife in "large scale strike" - latest ( www.bbc.com )
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Privacy stalwart Nicholas Merrill spent a decade fighting an FBI surveillance order. Now he wants to sell you phone service—without knowing almost anything about you. ...
Could VPNs Be 'Banned'?
With the UK apparently floating ideas of a VPN ban it's got me worried about the future of anonymity online. Now people have already pointed out that a VPN ban doesn't make sense because of all the legitimate uses of one and wouldn't even be enforceable anyway, but that got me thinking. ...
I did my first E injection today!
Not much to say, I just needed to shout out to the world. It feels great having finally acted on how I have felt for so long. I still got a long way to go, but I feel like this is a turning point and I am just so excited! To anyone who feels similarly but is apprehensive about injections, I have to say that the procedure was so ...
I feel wierd abt myself rn
So, its been a while for me ( 10 years ) that IK I'm a transgender women ( 23 rn ) but how ever because of my family ( they are religious ) and my country government nu-written law I couldn't hrt. All I need is approve of a therapist so my family would buy their words, but every therapist I went tries to convince me that I'm ...