The latest issue of Thought Crime Trap House is out. Link is in my profile. Opt out of the system and find the latest in privacy and crypto news plus commentary from a voluntaryist perspective. Included in this issue: -How to subscribe to a VPN more privately? -What's going on with the Tuesday crypto pump? -Monero regains it's top spot from Zcash -New tool for sandboxing potentially sketchy attachments securely -Chat Control in EU news -Potential VPN ban in Wisconsin -Samourai devs sentencing -And more! https://paragraph.com/@thoughtcrimetraphouse/newsletter-december-3-2025
I live my life almost entirely outside of the system with the goal of interacting with the state and it's thugs as little as possible. -No drivers license/car (most encounters with the state occur during traffic stops) -No plane travel or border crossings (this sucks) -No bank account -Self employed -No Facebook or any social media under my real name -No property in my name -Cash and crypto for most transactions, prepaid debit cards for a few -No insurance in my name -No bills of any kind in my name There are some disadvantages to this kind of lifestyle, it's not for everyone (although the more of us that opt out the easier it gets for others to do so) but it is incredibly liberating. Opting out is the closest you can get to true freedom within our enslaved society. We need to build alternative systems and communities outside of the system to make opting out easier for people. No one should have to live as a slave if they don't want to.
On Saturday morning, someone posing as a delivery worker broke into a San Francisco home, tied up the homeowner, and stole 11 million in crypto. I don't think American crypto holders are ready for what's coming in terms of targeted theft/kidnapping/extortion using personal data leaked by both users themselves and companies with poor data handling (*cough coinbase *cough). You got people STILL posting shit like what city you live in, what car you drive, stuff about your kids, when you are on vacation, etc. Even little details can get you fucked. That's fine if you have say, less than 10k in crypto on transparent chains, you might be ok. Anything more than 10k is quite attractive for gangs of semi computer savvy youngins with no moral compass and no money to speak of. Especially with the economy going down the toilet and AI fixin' to drain all the job openings. Just don't be surprised if you ever find yourself getting your ass beat until you give up your keys. It has already started to happen in America and it's only going to get worse. It's never too late to start protecting yourself. Storing your wealth on privacy chains such as Monero or shielded Zcash where a rando with a block explorer can't track down your balances is a good start. Tax loss harvesting might be a good opportunity to rearrange your funds to be more private. Say you are underwater on an asset in a wallet linked to your name in some way. Sell the asset, write the loss off of your taxes, then redeploy the cash in a non kyced wallet by purchasing crypto p2p. Criminals will just see that you once had crypto, and you sold it. They aren't interested in your bank account $$$, they want crypto that can be sent out of your wallet and can't be clawed back. Something to think about. NFA #privacy #bitcoin #security
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An armed robber posing as a delivery worker invaded a San Francisco home, tied up the homeowner, and took the victim’s cellphone, laptop, and $11...
The New York Times and the ICIJ is trying to make money laundering in crypto look way worse than it is right as Congress is debating how to regulate non custodial services. #nokyc #privacy
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The ICIJ has published a series of articles on Bitcoin's use in money laundering, and it mainly operates from the premise that any transaction that...
The Supreme Court has ruled that tracking you via cellphone location requires a warrant. No such restriction exists for tracking via automated license plate readers. Law enforcement can get this data from Flock Safety's massive surveillance network, and if you audit these LE requests, the reasons given for needing to track a particular license plate include such important things as "lalala" or "asdf". They don't need an actual legitimate reason, they can put whatever they want on the data request form. The places you drive to can reveal a detailed picture of your life. There have already been instances of cops misusing this data for non law enforcement reasons, and it is incredibly dangerous to allow them to access this kind of information on any citizen at any time for any reason. This new surveillance network should not be tolerated by the American people. It is nobody's business where you go throughout the day, and I would love to see some kind of anti license plate movement go viral. Imagine if even a third of people just ripped their license plates off or covered them with mud. There isn't enough cops to pull over that many people for driving without a visible license plate number. The people could instantly destroy the power of this Flock Safety surveillance network, but it would only work if enough people were willing to do it. Would you be willing to obscure your license plate if you knew others would do the same? Do you have the guts to stand up to this mass surveillance? Or should we just roll over and continue to let America grow more dystopian with every passing day? Now is the time to resist, not when it gets even worse and any dissent is immediately crushed by armed drones reading your brain waves (that's not even a joke any more, mind reading tech is gaining more accuracy every day). You have a right to keep your personal life private, but it's a right you are probably going to have to fight for. We can bitch about this government overreach all day, but unless we are actually willing to do something about it, nothing will get better and it will only get worse. We all need to opt the fuck out and throw our license plates in the garbage. Make it a Tik Tok challenge or something, make it viral. How do we make people care enough about this to commit a small act of civil disobedience? #privacy
Five years in a cage for helping people protect their privacy. The prosecutors and the judge are the ones who should get locked up, they were the real criminals in the courtroom today. #freesamourai
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Keonne Rodriguez has received the maximum possible sentence on his guilty plea for operating an unlicensed money transmitter. He will serve 60 mo...
Never forget what Saylor did https://www.youtube.com/live/TUIxxqcImB8
Anytime you move to a new house, apartment, or van down by the river, it is a golden opportunity for a privacy reset. Tell no one other than trusted friends and family your new address. Don't get anything shipped to your new address under your real name. Don't update your address with any services or businesses unless absolutely necessary, if you do need to share your new address with a service, consider making an entirely new account under an alias. If you want to go all out, don't put the utilities/internet under your name. If you are considering a move, think about using a trust to rent or buy the property. Route all internet access at new address through a VPN, proxy, or TOR. Be wary of what devices you bring to the new address. The goal here is to have as few links between your real identity and your new home as possible, this can protect you from things like five dollar wrench attacks. It's much easier to keep an address private if you start from day one at your new residence than it is to try to work backwards and protect information that has already been leaked. #privacy image