Nostr notes by SimplifiedPrivacy.com

Singapore node is upgrading today. 1am Singapore time 5pm UTC ...

2026-10-12T16:31:00Z

Singapore node is upgrading today.

1am Singapore time
5pm UTC Europe
1pm EST USA

Please have patience with the individual operators.

VPN Node Update Schedule: Sunday - Netherlands Monday - Iceland ...

2026-10-04T15:06:30Z

VPN Node Update Schedule:

Sunday - Netherlands
Monday - Iceland

Both at:
7pm UTC EU
3pm EST USA
3am Hong Kong

We are attempting to do these transitions with as minimum disruption in service as possible. However, keep in mind, even if it goes smoothly, we need to test linux kernel tweaks on speed, across multiple protocols, which means guaranteed restarts. Expect some downtime potentially 20 minutes to an hour, potentially longer if there's technical issues. And don't be fooled by immediate results, only to get restarted on.

this is the way

2026-10-04T15:05:41Z

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this is the way

for vless, yes. for hysteria with quic, do you think bbr helps? i ...

2026-10-04T15:05:12Z

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for vless, yes. for hysteria with quic, do you think bbr helps? i found it did not. As hysteria2 has it's own congestion control, which I believe is what you referenced by "constant speed". You used brutal mode?

HOLY SHIT THE UPGRADE WORKED. Speed Test as 2nd hop on the same ...

2026-10-03T00:02:25Z

HOLY SHIT THE UPGRADE WORKED.

Speed Test as 2nd hop on the same Seattle IP:

VLESS - 720 down

vs

Wireguard - 350 down

How? Because Wireguard is a dumb pipe. It just encrypts data and sends it. Wireguard's UDP has no feedback mechanism, which means packets fill a buffer to wait (or die) on the 2nd hop.

This is even more pronounced when you have two Wireguard configs (one tunnel inside another like Tor). Other than HydraVeil, most commercial VPNs don't hide from the 1st server. Mullvad sees your traffic naked. But that 2nd inner WG config is more vulnerable to Wireguard's flaws.

In sharp contrast, vless' pure tcp allows for kernel optimizations, which give feedback on that 2nd hop, to slow down if the "waiting room" is full. This makes sure nothing gets dropped, and we clear the 2nd hurdle, without relying on the app itself to bitch about a single missing packet. All the while, masking to the ISP that it's a regular https connection.

All I know is grind.

Yesterday's Moldova upgrade was a success. Today we're ...

2026-10-02T17:27:17Z

Yesterday's Moldova upgrade was a success.

Today we're doing Seattle USA, and we'll try to keep downtime to a minimum. It might only be like 20 minutes if it goes smooth.

Starts:
lunchtime LA
7pm UTC

thanks bro

2026-10-02T17:26:52Z

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thanks bro

never heard that. source?

2026-10-02T17:26:30Z

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never heard that. source?

hey man, I remember having a hostile conversation with your ...

2026-10-02T17:26:18Z

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hey man, I remember having a hostile conversation with your prior. The real question is "who are you?" that I should be on the hook to give customer service to essentially spam

"I have not failed, I simply found 10,000 ways that won't ...

2026-10-01T17:17:14Z

"I have not failed, I simply found 10,000 ways that won't work" -Thomas Edison

First attempt at triple protocol moldova upgrade did not work. We're trying again.

Moldova VPN node will be down for as brief a time as possible, in the middle of the night there,

3am Chisinau Moldova
20 UTC
3pm UTC-5 USA

Also note, if you are using an older version of HydraVeil, please upgrade to 2.8.0 immediately by downloading the new appimage from the website. The in-app auto-update is having issues for some users.

https://simplifiedprivacy.com/vpn-install/easy-one-command.html

no, its a vpn purchase system that gives the privacy of monero, ...

2026-10-01T17:17:04Z

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no, its a vpn purchase system that gives the privacy of monero, without a sync or blockchain

Python is slow to do math But it's possible to compile Python ...

2026-09-23T14:06:40Z

Python is slow to do math

But it's possible to compile Python into C, using Cython

And that's exactly what we just did, to the slowest part of the cryptography that allows you to get a new billing identity (without repaying) in HydraVeil.

While previously a ticket prep took 6 - 10 seconds, to now being a near instant calculation. This means disposable, instant, and isolated profiles are possible... while still getting python's forced transparency with an easily reproducible build.

Imagine Monero without the sync.
Imagine Bitcoin Lightning without running a node.

Now am I saying replace and end those currencies? No of course not. What I am saying is that this technology can dramatically improve your privacy & security, without sacrificing convenience.

Great to hear my friend

2026-09-07T16:46:14Z

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Great to hear my friend

As of today's update, when you delete a HydraVeil profile, it ...

2026-08-22T00:06:00Z

As of today's update, when you delete a HydraVeil profile, it now "respawns" your cryptographic ticket. This is the equivalent to wiping your identity, as it's giving you a new mathematically unlinkable ticket, which gets you a fresh Wireguard config.

Imagine it with the metaphor of getting a refund, and then buying it with Monero again. To learn more, please see today's release notes:

https://simplifiedprivacy.com/respawn-profiles/hydraveil-release/v2-7-8.html

Version 2.7.8 SHA256SUM:
62f0de8ac157e0f35a0e7c65f33a3c80fd96d6465d2b6f3be87d8adf3bd43077

Only when it first was getting going. at the time it seemed ...

2026-08-22T00:05:14Z

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Only when it first was getting going. at the time it seemed vague. have they made it more concrete?

Couple thousand lines committed. I've lost my sanity, but git ...

2026-08-14T23:54:41Z

Couple thousand lines committed. I've lost my sanity, but git is keeping track..

We're in the home stretch for obfuscation. We'll be offering 2 new protocol choices (on top of the Wireguard/Tor-masked choices now), which both should be able to penetrate Russian, Chinese, and other restricted firewalls. As well as any USA or West EU home ISP, that's acting as though they were Chinese dictator with Wireguard.

The best part is that it's with little speed sacrifice, in fact one of them is an improvement for those with crappy bandwidth. It requests extra duplicate packets in-case some are dropped, so you can stream on it, despite being in both a restricted region and with garbage connection. Because what a surprise, those two things usually come together, like peanut butter and jelly.

https://git.simplifiedprivacy.com/Support/sp-hydra-veil-core/commits/branch/master

Bro, the Upgrade was a Decade Ago Many developers can be reckless ...

2026-08-08T01:05:48Z

Bro, the Upgrade was a Decade Ago

Many developers can be reckless with API calls, because with stable connections and global CDN servers, the difference between proper design, and complete negligence, can be in milliseconds. So it's not even worth the effort for most corporate developers to even learn.

This is why despite the HTTP protocol being upgraded over a decade ago to HTTP2, the vast majority of Python tutorials still teach the requests library, which only has HTTP/1. And despite HTTP2's proven speed advantage for client re-use, most mobile apps using Flutter continue to erode that edge with the defaults of HTTP1.

Then because web bloat has become the accepted standard, everyone has to use a CDN, to pass all data to the same centralized mega-corporations, which break SSL through the fundamental nature of CDNs. So as an end-user, you have to accept snail speeds, or totalitarian privacy-invasion.

But what if it wasn't a stable connection? What if there was no Cloudflare? Most of our users are using Tor, plus a base-layer VPN, with crappy internet to begin with. But they still expect fast performance, so what can they do?

Even worse, the Tor developers kill adoption with their own policies. Their STEM library is garbage for receiving errors on bootstrap. It's a blackbox that gives no feedback, yet they’ve created pointless permission problems by restricting third party apps from creating Tor sessions on a given config, by default on most Linux distros. Yet when Tor browser itself is open, it can start the config, and then you can bind to it. So what is the purpose of restricting it, if when the primary use-case is open, that restriction is often gone.

Then Tor dev negligence is compounded by PySocks dev negligence, where even after decades of IPv6 being around, PySocks doesn't support it. And the STEM library docs don’t want to mention how to disable IPv6, their attitude is go read it on your own.

This combo is lethal, of black box swallowed errors, pointless permission problems, IPv6 errors, all combined with crappy library support. How can any privacy project succeed? Most don't, and that's why you see Cloudflare used even for Monero wallet APIs. Each party points the finger at the other, nobody takes responsibility for anything.

Now you have context to understand this 2-7-7 upgrade. I've been digging away for months to learn this, and today we are proud to roll out the upgrade:

Today's upgrade:

-Ditching HTTP1 for HTTP2
-Ditching Python requests for HTTPx
-HTTPx client re-use throughout the project. Way beyond simple for loops, but an entire infrastructure for persistent proxied connections.
-Ditched STEM for a Custom Tor Bootstrap with error detection for a variety of issues.
-It creates a custom HTTPx client to resolve DNS and verify SSL when Tor node DNS is blocked.
-Solved async over Tor. Now it grinds out concurrent requests
-Transitioned the database endpoints to reduce the quantity of API calls made
-Elaborate sync tracker to reduce API calls when nothing changed

With all these changes combined, we've smashed sync time from over 15 seconds, to under 5 seconds (depending on your connection.)

Although this may seem like a lot of technical complexity, I am on a simple mission. To make privacy so convenient, that you say "why not".

version 2.7.7 sha256sum:
3302a8a736141f2ca7322f16003c59640d2932db8bad530aae9b328f9c70c680
hydraveil.net

We're excited to be rolling out a double IP & interface ...

2026-08-01T00:19:09Z

We're excited to be rolling out a double IP & interface based, protocol-agnostic firewall & managed dns in our app. Not only for Wireguard, but paving the way for other protocols next..

https://simplifiedprivacy.com/improved-firewall-and-dns/hydraveil-release/v2-6-7.html

One of the most frustrating parts of Tor, is even if the website ...

2026-07-21T13:31:25Z

One of the most frustrating parts of Tor, is even if the website wants to allow Tor, often their DNS provider may block Tor's DNS nodes from resolving the domain. Without the website owner (or even the end-user) from being aware.

DNS Providers such as Namecheap, GoDaddy, and Orangewebsite will most definitely restrict high quantity Tor queries. I've seen it first hand with out our project. And upstreams such as Verisign and even Iceland's' .is ISNIC registry may be the real culprits. Everyone will claim it's to stop abuse, which is logical. But the end result is harming privacy.

Even diagnosing this problem is a huge challenge, let alone solving it. But where other people give up, is a good place to start. The fresh HydraVeil release, tries to sync over Tor, if it fails..

a) It first tests if Tor even works against the official Tor Project API.

b) If it does, it checks if DNS is the problem. Will just the domain resolve via a Tor node?

c) If that Tor-node-DNS fails, It resolves the DNS to a non-Tor DNS provider like Quad9 via DoH, but proxied through Tor.

d) Now with the IP address in-hand, it goes directly to the IP address of the web service through Tor, but without ANY DNS. Then pretends it used the domain, when it asks the website for an SSL cert. Finally, HydraVeil manually verifies the SSL cert against it’s own local copy of Mozilla’s tools for Let’s Encrypt certificate authority.

This gives you the benefit of SSL encryption & Tor, but without allowing DNS providers to restrict Tor resolution. And doesn't slow you to 6 hops to do onions just for DNS, to download browsers. Today's release is open source. And this same blueprint can be applied to any app in the future. Web browsers, Monero/Bitcoin wallets, Nostr clients, anything that wants to use Tor but not be slowed to 6 hops by an Onion, just to resolve the domain.

Release notes:
https://simplifiedprivacy.com/tor-sync-and-improved-database/hydraveil-release/v2-5-7.html

Big Quality of Life Upgrade.. Previously, HydraVeil's sync ...

2026-06-25T00:21:02Z

Big Quality of Life Upgrade..

Previously, HydraVeil's sync had the user blindly download ALL locations, browsers, operators, and plans every single time. This was a speed negative, especially for Tor mode.

Now, the new version checks only what changed by fetching a single tiny master list. In addition, we refactored the entire UI to load faster across the board. Try it out, it's a huge difference.

https://simplifiedprivacy.com/faster-sync-and-ui/hydraveil-release/v2-5-2.html

v 2.5.2 - sha256sum
e540321b67622e7810a103f0ef8c1533b6886000a2c5d0f830dc5a5b3c6f19d1

Monero & Bitcoin prices are a reverse propaganda index The ...

2026-06-23T13:28:28Z

Monero & Bitcoin prices are a reverse propaganda index

The lower they get, the higher the brainwash of the population

hCaptcha with Cloudflare now is requiring disabling Tor ...

2026-06-20T00:13:06Z

hCaptcha with Cloudflare now is requiring disabling Tor Browser's fingerprint protections.

Once you allow that popup warning, it's like getting your picture taken. It doesn't matter if you put the mask back on for that account after.

Tor is to privacy, what Elon Musk's Twitter is to free speech: Hope you're on the king's good side today. While HydraVeil is like Nostr, we assume oppression.

thanks bro appreciate your time

2026-06-20T00:11:47Z

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thanks bro appreciate your time

500! Our organization's Signal group on privacy tech hits 500 ...

2026-06-11T23:59:35Z

500!

Our organization's Signal group on privacy tech hits 500 people. Huge thanks to everyone who participates, answers questions, and the volunteer mods.

Wanna know something? AI has debug knowledge. While the people in this room have wisdom:

https://simplifiedprivacy.com/contact/signal.html

pay Bitcoin layer 1 once, and get the privacy of 6 separate ...

2026-06-06T00:34:34Z

pay Bitcoin layer 1 once,

and get the privacy of 6 separate Monero VPN subscriptions.

The cryptography behind it is pretty fun, I wrote up a history of where it came from,

https://simplifiedprivacy.com/hydraveil-anonymous-tickets/deep-dive-into-the-cryptography.html

thanks bro appreciate your time

2026-06-06T00:33:49Z

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thanks bro appreciate your time

How can you pay once, but be anonymous for each profile? I know ...

2026-05-30T00:11:30Z

How can you pay once, but be anonymous for each profile?

I know you won't read our yellow paper with the cryptography, so here's a fast meme slideshow.

Then you unblind it. This is all automatic & instant. You’re sending text and doing math (not waiting on a blockchain).

Later when you use it,

Maximum Convenience.
No Altcoin Printed.
Pay once, look different each time.

HydraVeil.net

as a buyer or seller? please use the contacts on our website

2026-05-30T00:10:14Z

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as a buyer or seller? please use the contacts on our website

Big News: Before, you had to buy each VPN profile separately with ...

2026-05-24T00:18:25Z

Big News:

Before, you had to buy each VPN profile separately with XMR or BTC,

Now, HydraVeil has cryptographically anonymous tickets. You pay once, get 6 tickets, and cash them in for Wireguard keys anytime.

The billing server can't know these tickets are the same person, without breaking elliptic curve cryptography. This means you get the privacy & isolation of having each profile (or device) completely separate, but the convenience of a single payment like a traditional VPN.

This update is live in the app now. The link below has:

-Source code on our git
-Beginner meme article on how it works
-Advanced article with white paper citations using the same math formulas, and why we picked the protocols/libraries we did

You don't need to know the math to use it though. It's automated with the push of a button, and takes about 3 seconds,

https://simplifiedprivacy.com/cryptographic-tickets/hydraveil-release/v2-3-1.html

yeah? seems like XMPP 2. i wish there was an XMPP <-> Delta ...

2026-05-24T00:16:44Z

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yeah? seems like XMPP 2. i wish there was an XMPP <-> Delta app

sure you got it man. santa can pass some xmr along, for ...

2026-05-24T00:16:14Z

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sure you got it man. santa can pass some xmr along, for naughty-level privacy to the nice kids

and what's the basis for this based truth

2026-05-24T00:15:24Z

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and what's the basis for this based truth

100% great analogy

2026-05-24T00:13:35Z

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100% great analogy

update is live! im posting it now, and the articles on the site

2026-05-24T00:13:13Z

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update is live! im posting it now, and the articles on the site

Game changer feature drops very soon. In fact, it's so good ...

2026-05-23T00:02:35Z

Game changer feature drops very soon.

In fact, it's so good you'll be questioning whose funding me. And the answer is you.

Huge thanks to everyone whose be using the VPN service and/or SMS exchange. And another huge thanks to anyone who donated to the wallets on the website. I could not be more excited for this upcoming release.

nice thanks for the tip

2026-05-23T00:01:36Z

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nice thanks for the tip

There's a lot of discussion over Nostr & Bitcoin taking ...

2026-05-16T14:19:17Z

There's a lot of discussion over Nostr & Bitcoin taking over

But ironically, the feature Nostr needs most, is more content unrelated to Nostr.

And the feature Bitcoin needs, is more businesses accepting it that are unrelated to the Bitcoin industry itself.

yeah agreed there's work to be done. Having onlyOffice ...

2026-05-16T14:18:46Z

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yeah agreed there's work to be done. Having onlyOffice support sync is another nice feature

can you be more specific on which settings?

2026-05-16T14:18:05Z

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can you be more specific on which settings?

I haven't, is it good? have you run one?

2026-05-16T14:17:19Z

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I haven't, is it good? have you run one?

yeah? how's your experience been with it?

2026-05-16T14:16:49Z

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yeah? how's your experience been with it?

Hey @npub18am…p424, we've seen a growth in Hydraveil ...

2026-05-16T14:15:53Z

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Hey Derek Ross (npub18am…p424), we've seen a growth in Hydraveil subscriptions with the introduction of Nostr identities for VPN node operators. I think you'd make a great operator, and help Nostr adoption. It's a low-time commitment & easy setup, and really goes into your point about new ideas from the community.

Nextcloud vs Cryptpad Nextcloud is slow because of the ...

2026-05-09T00:53:27Z

Nextcloud vs Cryptpad

Nextcloud is slow because of the permissions related SQL database lookups. Even if many features are turned off, it still has slow load times on the web UI. Yes there are mobile apps slightly better. They are doing optional AI features now too. It's too much bloat in my opinion, too much feature creep without first focusing on the fundamentals. Only exceptions on the speed are doing it in your physical home, or have a CDN service.

Cryptpad is improving. It’s end-to-end encrypted docs for those who don’t know, while Nextcloud isn't encrypted but still slower for docs. Use it on a chromium based browser for faster decryption than Tor browser.

I'd recommend Cryptpad over Nextcloud. What do you think? If you've self-hosted nextcloud with success, I'm open to hearing your debate.

thanks for your time. cool node marketing

2026-05-09T00:49:51Z

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thanks for your time. cool node marketing

I believe you would benefit from some of the content on our site ...

2026-05-09T00:49:14Z

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I believe you would benefit from some of the content on our site regarding proton. Archivero (npub1vv8…3ntj)

https://simplifiedprivacy.com/proton-vpn-and-mail-use-cloudflare/outright-negligent-harm.html

https://simplifiedprivacy.com/protonmail/propaganda-unencrypted.html

Age verification is rolling out in the UK This means vendors such ...

2026-05-07T14:39:57Z

Age verification is rolling out in the UK

This means vendors such as Apple are now forcing age verification or your iPhone is "child proof" locked. [1][2]

This is similar to laws in California or Australia. In fact, many linux distros may be requiring age verification. [3]

Some of these verifications can be bypassed with a VPN. However, the next logical step is politicians will say, "we have to restrict VPNs or block Tor IPs".

This is why Simplified Privacy operates under a parallel agora system, using cryptocurrency deposits, PGP contracts, and a focus on tools such as Linux, Nostr, and Arweave. And also why we have support groups on platforms such as Signal, with hundreds of people in the group, to ask questions on these technologies.

However, there are negative effects of this. One is that SP can't raise fiat VC funding to buy billboards like Mullvad. This leaves a psychological impression that companies who have the funding are "more legitimate". When in fact it's the opposite. If we have an objectively better product without using any of the tyranny approved methods. It demonstrates that you don't need to comply with your business either.

A terrorist threatens civilians to achieve political aims. While as I look to improve the lives of civilians, so they ask "Why do I need politicians?"

Sources:
[1] https://support.apple.com/en-gb/126788
[2] https://www.ladbible.com/technology/uk-apple-iphone-age-verification-what-happens-dont-complete-197214-20260506
[3] https://github.com/BryanLunduke/DoesItAgeVerify

Session team lacked funding to continue, their new coin sales ...

2026-05-07T14:37:19Z

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Session team lacked funding to continue, their new coin sales didn't go well enough to fund operations.

I personally have criticisms of their approach outside of the official reasons. They could have used their existing DNS system to have rotating keys (PFS) by rotating the name to a new account. The lead Session dev told our team in an interview that they didn't want to do this because it forced sale of the name to have the security. But without a product, you have no funding.

Session team lacked funding to continue, their new coin sales ...

2026-05-07T14:37:15Z

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Session team lacked funding to continue, their new coin sales didn't go well enough to fund operations.

I personally have criticisms of their approach outside of the official reasons. They could have used their existing DNS system to have rotating keys (PFS) by rotating the name to a new account. The lead Session dev told our team in an interview that they didn't want to do this because it forced sale of the name to have the security. But without a product, you have no funding.

thanks for your time, yes feel free to join the signal one

2026-05-07T14:34:19Z

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thanks for your time, yes feel free to join the signal one

yeap, will be missed

2026-05-07T14:33:59Z

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yeap, will be missed

we were using it for an email list for uncensored direct ...

2026-05-07T14:33:44Z

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we were using it for an email list for uncensored direct messages. nostr is scroll/time based

Session messenger is ending I originally liked Session for an ...

2026-04-25T00:04:25Z

Session messenger is ending

I originally liked Session for an uncensored email list, to compliment Nostr's scroll-off feed. Over 350 people subscribed to our list. But ironically, now I'm censored.

So, now I'm doing a real email list. Send an email from any provider to news@simplifiedprivacy.org and the bot will respond.

thanks bro, appreciate it

2026-04-20T20:11:29Z

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thanks bro, appreciate it

A real genius is able to explain complex concepts in the most ...

2026-04-17T23:56:05Z

A real genius is able to explain complex concepts in the most basic terms.

So don't ever be intimidated when you're trying to learn.

If the guy can't make it sound simple, then he really is retarded.

FBI extracted deleted Signal messages, even after the app was ...

2026-04-11T00:09:56Z

FBI extracted deleted Signal messages, even after the app was uninstalled.

When Signal messages arrive, iOS stores push notification previews locally on the device. In this case, those previews stayed behind even after Signal was uninstalled.

- Only incoming messages were captured this way
- Disappearing messages that had already vanished inside Signal were still recoverable from the notification cache
-This is iOS behavior, not a Signal vulnerability. And likely impacts other ALL apps on iOS.

The quick fix, to turn it off:
Signal → Settings → Notifications → Show → set to "No Name or Content"

You'll still get a notification ping, but iOS just won't cache anything useful.

The real fix:
Switch to GrapheneOS

The original 404media source is paywalled,
https://cybernews.com/security/fbi-extracts-signal-messages-from-suspect/
https://www.404media.co/fbi-extracts-suspects-deleted-signal-messages-saved-in-iphone-notification-database-2/

Top 6 Android Privacy Tips 6) Don't use or give out your SIM ...

2026-04-04T00:04:05Z

Top 6 Android Privacy Tips

6) Don't use or give out your SIM card's real phone number.

Instead, use VoIP (internet -to-> regular phone) with a VPN. This appears in calls or texts to be a regular number, but hides your location from the cell tower. Only use your real underlying SIM card for getting data.

5) Don't literally buy the phone in your real name.

The IMEI hardware identifier then is following you around, and defeats the purpose of VoIP. We offer Pixel phones prices below Google's official store for Monero or Bitcoin. It can then eSIM with digital crypto plans, or cash for a physical SIM.

4) Use a burner Crypto Service for account sign-ups.

We now have a new SMS exchange where you can get non-VoIP P2P confirms, that appear to the service as a random number. This avoids you paying a monthly fee (it's a single time), bypasses restrictions, and seperates each account from you, your SIM, or the VoIP you talk to your family/friends on. And best of all, there's options to restore it later on in an emergency. See SimplifiedPrivacy.net

3) See if your bank offers YubiKey.

Bank of America allows you to declare you're "going abroad" and switch from SMS confirm, to YubiKey. But they never check if you actually leave. This means you can avoid maintaining a real SMS line to bypass their VoIP tests. If you buy an SMS Zelle confirm from the exchange, then the seller can't access your bank account without both the password and the yubikey sign. That's wayy more secure than even an SMS line you own.

2) Abuse Shared Cell Tower IPs

When you connect to a cell tower, you're sharing the same IP address as every other user of that tower. This means even if your VPN is really logging, or compromised by memory dumps at the datacenter, there is still an anonymity pool. As our previous content has repeated, Mullvad is Sweden, has really no ability to stop M247's US servers from a memory dump. Their "in memory" routine is really propaganda, if being in memory is the problem itself.

But when you use a VPN on your home ethernet, the VPN provider can identify you and you alone. If you re-use that same VPN subscription when you're at home (only your household on that IP), and when you're on the tower (sharing it with your entire city), you undo the magic of celltower's shared IPs.

That's why I'm so excited about the 1.5 euro quick burner plans from our VPN with accomplished Nostr-verified operators. The web panel could not make it faster or easier to use Monero or Bitcoin, and get an isolated sub for mobile. And you could even use one operator for your home like a router, and another for android. You only need one location for a router! See web.hydraveil.net

1) Switch to a Degoogled OS

You really can't get meaningful privacy if your entire operating system is compromised. By default both iPhone and stock Android do Wifi triangulation and Apple/Google share the notifications with the US government.

I hate to give you the bad news, but it kinda defeats the purpose of freedom tech, if the government and Big Tech are the ones who really own your Bitcoin and Nostr keys. You heard the saying "All your base belong to us"? He was talking about stock Google.

Master Yoda said in the Last Jedi, "Pass along what you have learned". I word it, "When you explain a concept, you actually learn it. Repost this so you can easily find it and act on it."

whats the advantage?

2026-04-04T00:01:12Z

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whats the advantage?

Yes, we have brand new and in stock Pixel 10 cheaper than ...

2026-04-04T00:00:25Z

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Yes, we have brand new and in stock Pixel 10 cheaper than Google's official store. no KYC, for bitcoin. PGP deposit with an arbitrator and more. simplifiedprivacy.com

loving the art

2026-04-03T23:58:28Z

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loving the art

LinkedIn makes more money selling your data, than the job posting ...

2026-04-02T13:54:33Z

LinkedIn makes more money selling your data, than the job posting fees.

Even if your full real name is on LinkedIn, you want to avoid giving them your SIM card's real underlying phone number. Because then you're handing over to all these aggregated cross-service data brokers, what other services (that aren't in your real name) you sign up for, and what you do on those.

And you're handing over to the government, the full metadata of where you are 24/7, who you're standing near, and who you talk to and what you say on that number.

But LinkedIn will reject VoIP numbers, and most "crypto confirm" services will be detected. Because they buy a block of numbers, and are often labeled "landline" on APIs.

That's why I'm so excited about the new P2P SMS Exchange we made (Simplified Privacy). Not only does it filter out sellers using VoIP with multiple API checks, but the numbers appear to services (such as LinkedIn) as a random number. There is no relationship between one seller's number and another.

Try it out for Monero or Bitcoin Lightning, https://simplifiedprivacy.net

thanks your time friend.

2026-04-02T13:52:01Z

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thanks your time friend.

thanks for your time. cool avatar. mystery superman?

2026-04-02T13:51:52Z

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thanks for your time. cool avatar. mystery superman?

Main website got a beautiful remake. It now more clearly ...

2026-04-01T14:33:51Z

Main website got a beautiful remake.

It now more clearly differentiates between our original projects and promoting/reviewing third party tools as part of a comprehensive educational center.

It also looks less like some guy's blog, and more like it is, a team effort creating the bleeding edge of freedom tech.

Let me know what you think. bitching and complaining is welcome. https://simplifiedprivacy.com

good to see you posting again on here

2026-04-01T14:33:14Z

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good to see you posting again on here

A bunch of minor GUI bug fixes isn't that sexy an update. But ...

2026-04-01T01:18:08Z

A bunch of minor GUI bug fixes isn't that sexy an update.

But it has to get done. So if you were one of the users complaining, I'm delivering on the promise,

HydraVeil 2.2.6 Sha256sum,
084e265a31c4c7ecd9737e1459f29f36e3375ba9076b6bac475601886da904a2

You are either buyer or seller. If you buy, you get an SMS If you ...

2026-03-31T19:33:07Z

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You are either buyer or seller.

If you buy, you get an SMS

If you sell, you copy-paste a msg to a bot, and get crypto

The new Iceland server is super fast and low "fraud ...

2026-03-29T15:33:06Z

The new Iceland server is super fast and low "fraud score" IP address. Now Simplified Privacy is only directly running 3 of the 8 locations. That gives you plenty of options for one operator systemwide, and another for the browser fingerprint. Wayy faster than Tor, no javascript restrictions, cookies saved, and no IP address blocked. Try it out for 1.5 euros in monero/lightning.

quoting
nevent1q…u09g
I'm running a HydraVeil Node. The Iceland node is now under my control.

HydraVeil allows you to isolate pieces of your life with different browser fingerprints, through multiple layers of VPN providers, with their identity verified by encryption, linked to Nostr. Come try my node for your profiles, and learn more at HydraVeil.net

all your base are belong to us

51e832277eed42ed56313c21aa8cef6dd278e4ee0360ec91218a7364608702fa

We are a VPN service with Nostr based operators. Please see ...

2026-03-29T15:29:06Z

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We are a VPN service with Nostr based operators. Please see vpn.simplifiedprivacy.com

On Ubuntu Touch, up to you. It's more personal preference

It's renting out the number to be used for a confirm for that ...

2026-03-29T15:27:42Z

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It's renting out the number to be used for a confirm for that service. for example your number for Google for a year. and you just reply once to forward the initial sms confirm

Hi good to hear from you. Prehaps start with registering a single ...

2026-03-29T15:26:30Z

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Hi good to hear from you. Prehaps start with registering a single sim and see how it goes. If we don't list that country already, we can add it. Let me know via DMs or whatever more private means which country

!! The SMS Exchange is now officially open for buyers !!! We got ...

2026-03-28T14:32:59Z

!! The SMS Exchange is now officially open for buyers !!!

We got sellers from the USA, Colombia, Ukraine, & more. You can get a non-VoIP SMS confirmation to register any account privately, for Monero or Bitcoin Lightning. It could be social media like Youtube/Twitter, messengers like Signal/Telegram/WhatsApp, business accounts like Yelp, or even financial accounts like Zelle/Paypal.

How it works is: you get matched with a seller by your choice of service/country, and it serves you the number, and if you want a burner email.

If it doesn't work, then the buyer gets 3 disputes, which triggers a match to a new seller and number.

If it does work, you have the option to "restore", which means paying again but skipping the matching process, and getting that same seller/phone number again. So if you lie, and falsely dispute, you lose the right to restore later in an emergency.

This is on the dot net domain:
https://simplifiedprivacy.net

Or Tor Onion:
http://privacyoyec4fmxxxuvysrg6ljna6blgotauud3rkvrtiavfbvyuagad.onion/

Also there is a robust legal protection system with PGP, ...

2026-03-28T14:31:03Z

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Also there is a robust legal protection system with PGP,
legal.simplifiedprivacy.net

sure, we got people who will die for your sins

2026-03-28T14:30:38Z

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sure, we got people who will die for your sins

We're good to go for buyers now @npub1frd…h4dd

2026-03-28T14:30:07Z

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We're good to go for buyers now Freedom Tech Co. (npub1frd…h4dd)

It does use it for that service. If you sell a service, you agree ...

2026-03-28T14:29:47Z

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It does use it for that service. If you sell a service, you agree not to resignup or dispute for a year. Beyond a year, the buyer would have to pay again.

It wouldn't get classified as VoIP, but be used up for a given service. VoIP classification comes from API calls to find out the vendor and type.

Hi good to hear from you. Once we move past the initial seller ...

2026-03-26T13:39:31Z

In reply to nevent1q…k5du
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Hi good to hear from you. Once we move past the initial seller launch phase, you’ll be able to use it as a buyer on simplifiedprivacy.net

In fact, the interface is already setup now for your to preview, and you’ll be able to try/use it within the next few days.

Yes sure we allow that, but you'd need to be able to recieve ...

2026-03-26T13:37:34Z

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Yes sure we allow that, but you'd need to be able to recieve from all of those numbers when a buyer requests it.

Hi, thanks for writing in. Yes this is a legitimate concern, ...

2026-03-26T13:36:29Z

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Hi, thanks for writing in. Yes this is a legitimate concern, however there are a number of protections to help against this. The first point is that it’s 3 rounds, and if the buyer disputes all 3, then it spits the money among the 3 sellers. So the bigger risk is that your number uniquely doesn’t work, but the other sellers’ numbers do.

The second point is that it doesn’t count towards that service for your number. For example if it’s a Google account, then your number is still “unsold” or available for a future Google account sale. So you don’t lose that much.

A final point is that once the system has been going on longer, we can then adopt a trust score system. Where after a certain point, the Exchange can feel comfortable siding with the seller immediately in a dispute.

Want to earn Bitcoin or Monero without KYC? A big problem with ...

2026-03-26T00:49:21Z

Want to earn Bitcoin or Monero without KYC?

A big problem with digital privacy, is that some services require SMS registration, and many times block VoIP numbers..

Even worse, there are Crypto “SMS-confirm” services that buy blocks of phone numbers, but once Big Tech's security vendors find out what the block is, the entire block may get banned or labeled VoIP. Leaving many privacy-conscious users feeling frustrated and isolated from parts of the internet.

But not everybody wants to be anonymous. Some people don't care that much. What if there was a way that those who don't care that much, could sell their phone number to those who do?

That's why I'm excited to present to you a huge new project from Simplified Privacy, the SMS Exchange. You can register as an SMS seller, and get notifications via your pick of SMS, Telegram, XMPP, or Session. You reply to an automated system with the SMS registration code, and boom, you earn your favorite cryptocurrency in a few seconds.

Not only can these surveillance firms not stop a guerrilla P2P market like this, but it's a huge step forward for the circular parallel economy, to never be dumping Bitcoin or Monero on an Exchange, in order to pay for blocks of phone numbers.

Instead, this is an opportunity for some savvy cats to on-ramp without KYC. And even pay for their phone bills with an easy side hustle. I encourage you to check out this extremely short article with some of the details, and consider reposting this so we can help the Nostr economy succeed.
https://simplifiedprivacy.net/static/info/seller.html

appreciate that friend

2026-03-26T00:31:33Z

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appreciate that friend

thanks for update

2026-03-26T00:31:18Z

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thanks for update

Google's official store is doing $200 off on the Pixel 10, ...

2026-03-25T01:18:07Z

Google's official store is doing $200 off on the Pixel 10, until the end of the month. So their price of 799 is knocked down to $599. [1]

Simplified Privacy can go down to $540 on a Pixel 10, 128G storage. That's brand-new, with GrapheneOS, a case, and charger included. And on top of that, we can even throw in 3-months of VPN service, for free.

In fact, our prices are so affordable, that some fear sending cryptocurrency from a scam. And that's why we just renewed our security deposit with XMRBazaar. This provides scam protection to you, while shielding you/us from data inquires.

Bazaar Listing:
https://xmrbazaar.com/listing/MV8H/

Google Official:
[1] https://store.google.com/us/product/pixel_10?hl=en-US

US government just banned "foreign made" routers from ...

2026-03-24T18:27:32Z

US government just banned "foreign made" routers from being imported.

Absolutely ridiculous, from Wikileaks years prior, it was revealed the US government was hacking home routers from the default ISP. Now they want to cut off your defenses.

https://9to5mac.com/2026/03/24/your-wireless-router-is-now-banned-from-sale-in-the-us-but-you-can-still-use-it/

It would have users exiting the IP, but that is not per say a ...

2026-03-24T14:28:58Z

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It would have users exiting the IP, but that is not per say a risk if it's a no KYC host. By upfront costs, we mean literally paying for it. As far as recommendations go, it depends on what country/location you'd be interested in doing. I see a Canada flag on your website, would you prefer to be the first Canadian spot? If you're serious about it, I can dig into which Canada host is good. I also need a German location, and I have a good host in mind. So if you're indifferent, probably Germany would be the first choice.

Dear Iceland VPN users, We are doing a peaceful server ...

2026-03-22T23:53:37Z

Dear Iceland VPN users,

We are doing a peaceful server transition, (defined as no interruption in service). The new one and old one will both online for the next days 9, after which the old one will stop working.

This new provider is faster & should better meet your needs. If you're using HydraVeil it will automatically renegotiate if you delete your wg.conf. For android or routers, please use the web panel at web.hydraveil.net

Hi @npub1yrs…ja94. Please see this section of the site, thanks, ...

2026-03-22T23:50:26Z

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Hi Settebello (npub1yrs…ja94). Please see this section of the site, thanks,
https://simplifiedprivacy.com/hydraveil-node/operator-guide.html

hi @npub1ge0…jcs3 to clarify, it is in a datacenter, and not in ...

2026-03-22T23:49:25Z

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hi shortwavesurfer2009 (npub1ge0…jcs3)
to clarify, it is in a datacenter, and not in your home. so you would not bear any legal responsibility for the actions of users. also it is paid, you get a percent of revenue. You'd need some basic Linux admin knowledge, good skills to learn in your own privacy and security journey

You'd need some basic Linux admin knowledge, but learning ...

2026-03-22T23:47:35Z

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You'd need some basic Linux admin knowledge, but learning Linux commands would be useful in your own privacy and security knowledge as well

We are adding more nodes, and looking for operators. If ...

2026-03-14T00:02:23Z

We are adding more nodes, and looking for operators. If you're interested in promoting Nostr, Linux, Bitcoin, Monero, open-source, Security, Parallel economies, and of course Privacy, even when they want to prevent you from being private, reach out.

quoting
nevent1q…40kw
I'm now running a HydraVeil node in Singapore via SimplifiedPrivacy.com (nprofile…wfg8) .

HydraVeil lets you isolate different parts of your online life using unique browser fingerprints, routed through multiple VPN operators, with their identity verified by encryption. A superior method of obfuscating one's identity compared to a regular VPN. Learn more at hydraveil.net .

Public Key:
291c44af69cd8d8ac64153d5b5761e2a96bb524000361628e62000dbecba5f54

New Update! Many misunderstand screen size fingerprinting. They ...

2026-03-13T00:08:16Z

New Update!

Many misunderstand screen size fingerprinting.

They assume that when a website fingerprints their browser, that it merely gets the display 'category', such as '1200x800'. But in reality, it gets your unique size down to the pixel, such as 1202x799. Each window will fill the display slightly differently, which absolutely can (and is) tracked across services.

In 2024 with version 1.64, Brave completely deprecated screen size fingerprinting, because it so frequently broke websites. Which is exactly what I'm screaming about, that modern web browsers force you to pick between privacy and functionality.

Tor Browser attempts to hide unique screen sizes by blocking and restricting Javascript, which causes services such as Google, Reddit, and Cloudflare to haze you.

That's why I'm excited about HydraVeil's feature to instantly create a new display, that realistically looks to websites like the browser window is your computer's full screen dimensions. Here we can see deviceinfo-me compare Tor Browser to HydraVeil's profiles, and it does not percieve it to be spoofed.

But many HydraVeil users have complained that they don't want to deal with smaller windows. And that's why I'm excited about our new update today.

We are proud to present a new 'dynamic mode' for quick profile creation, which when enabled, presents many screen size options that are only slightly smaller than your host, in 50 dimension increments. This allows the user to effortlessly and conveniently get profiles that comfortably fill up their host’s display window, but each one is slightly different to fingerprinters.

Learn more from our release notes:

https://simplifiedprivacy.com/dynamic-larger-profiles/and-changed-locations/v2-2-5.html

HydraVeil v2.2.5 SHA256 SUM:

eed46e20d1e8c8519030169fb931054e6b44abb09e499e2ad8107946718d5c5e

Huge thanks to Zenaku. -Designed the Simplified Privacy website ...

2026-03-12T00:01:23Z

Huge thanks to Zenaku.

-Designed the Simplified Privacy website
-Designed the HydraVeil site
-Designed the Podcast page
-Designed the HydraVeil GUI & Logos
-Lead Dev behind ArWeb

After the last 2 years, I trust him with my life. So you should be fine to route traffic.

quoting
nevent1q…jxcr
I'm now running a HydraVeil node in Moldova.

HydraVeil lets you isolate different parts of your online life using unique browser fingerprints, routed through multiple VPN operators, with their identity verified by encryption. Learn more at HydraVeil.net

Public Key:
1b1c8cb2be0ccbc9a82c38a2e8967dd85121c1980275c8a2e4a7664120686086

Works with most Debian, Arch, and Fedora. So any of these are ...

2026-03-04T16:15:55Z

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Works with most Debian, Arch, and Fedora. So any of these are fine, it's the user's preference.

The browser profiles work inside Qubes, but its way overkill. SecureBlue it currently does not work.

Inside Whonix it works for socks5 proxies.

Most of those not yet fully tested. It's been tested on glibc ...

2026-03-04T16:13:05Z

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Most of those not yet fully tested. It's been tested on glibc void. If you get it working on one of those, I'd add it to the docs.

I agree systemD sucks. But without some form of a sandbox or ...

2026-03-04T00:57:42Z

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I agree systemD sucks. But without some form of a sandbox or password, most open source VPNs are vulnerable to the same concepts/attacks. HydraVeil does work without systemd.

CIA coups is why they hate the US. Please see Scott Horton's ...

2026-03-04T00:55:15Z

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CIA coups is why they hate the US. Please see Scott Horton's work

Shut the fuck up you worthless cunt. Even CIA said Iran was not ...

2026-03-04T00:53:52Z

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Shut the fuck up you worthless cunt. Even CIA said Iran was not anywhere near nuclear capable. Death to American Empire, which is nothing but genocide & coups

Donald Trump murdered Iran's Leader. The US airstrikes that ...

2026-03-01T16:57:15Z

Donald Trump murdered Iran's Leader.

The US airstrikes that killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei are completely immoral and depraved. He's going against his own campaign promises for "no more regime change wars", and not even following the CIA's own evaluation of Iran's nuclear program. Trump did not even get Congressional approval for war with Iran, making his actions illegal.

The entire history of this kind of belligerence, goes back to 1979 when the US backed Shah machine gunned peaceful protesters to maintain power of oil.

And the entire pretext of endless war in the name of defense, is an immoral fraud. That ends up killing US civil liberties and privacy. They are tapping American's electronics and reading your messages, so Israel can seize more land.

we've made dramatic improvements over the last 2 years. try ...

2026-03-01T16:55:02Z

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we've made dramatic improvements over the last 2 years. try it again, the latency issues are fixed

If your app has amazing features, they'll tell you ...

2026-02-28T00:58:15Z

If your app has amazing features, they'll tell you "normies will never use complex things".

If you have average features, they'll tell you "it's nothing special to bother".

One day, you'll realize that the only feature these people look for in an app, is other people's approval first

How any app can doxx Mullvad & Proton users WITHOUT sudo ...

2026-02-21T01:21:34Z

How any app can doxx Mullvad & Proton users WITHOUT sudo

Linux is flawed and any app can abuse the DBUS to rip down your VPN without any elevated privileges. To prove this, today our team presents both an original demo attack script to break through Mullvad & Proton, however these same concepts can apply to many others.

But there is no point in complaining, if you aren't going to do anything about it. And that's why I'm proud of our team to work so many sleepless nights and come through. We've already pushed to HydraVeil's distro, an original solution, that presents a much stronger resistance to these type of network interface attacks, but without any of the downside burdens of a virtual machine.

The link below has:
-5-min Demo Video w/ an easy to follow explanation
-Article version of the video
-FOSS script
-Solution already pushed to HydraVeil

But all the technology in the world, isn't going to do any good, if nobody is going to use it. That's true not just for our team's app, but building up all of Nostr.

That's why I'm asking for your help. Spend a few minutes looking at our materials. I've made it as easy to comprehend as possible. Realize it is real. And when you do, share & repost it.

https://simplifiedprivacy.com/any-app-can-rip-down-mullvad-and-proton-vpn.html